Darius Rucker Shares His Holiday Favorites
Darius Rucker loves all things about the Christmas season and did his own Christmas album, Home For The Holidays, in 2014 to show his love for the holiday and the music that comes with it.
In a recent interview, Darius told us what his favorite Christmas song was. He said, “Oh, ‘The Christmas Song,’ no doubt about it. There’s a reason it’s called, ‘The Christmas Song.’ That’s my favorite Christmas song to sing and my favorite Christmas song to listen to.”
It’s interesting that on his Christmas album, he does not cover his favorite tune. He did do many popular Christmas songs, including “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.”
Rucker also told us what his favorite Christmas movie is. He said, “That’s such a hard question, favorite Christmas movie, because there are so many great movies that I can think of just off the top of my head that are great Christmas movies. But it would be a tie between Miracle on 34th Street, which is still just great acting, great movie. I just love it. I love watching it. I watch it probably four times every Christmas and cry at the end every time.”
He added, “And I love Elf. I just think Elf is one of the absolute great stories and just the funniest movies I’ve ever seen, and it just happens to be a Christmas movie. It’s one of my favorite movies.”
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Rucker wanted his kids grown before he wrote and released his new memoir, Life’s Too Short: A Memoir by Darius Rucker. The book which came out earlier this year (5/28).
Darius told us, “I always said I wouldn’t write the book until they were adults. When my son turned seventeen or eighteen, he started wanting to talk about it. I’ve been honest with them when they were old enough to talk about it, I was just honest with them.”
He noted it was something his son Jack told him that put his mind at ease on the book, “I would always tell them, ‘You shouldn’t do this,’ and they understood. And one of the things I was so worried about was that I was so honest about it. He was like ‘Dad: who’s gonna be surprised that rock stars party? That’s not breaking news to anybody!’ And I was like, ‘You’re right.'”
When he announced the book, Rucker said, “If I look back at my life and try to see into my past, everything seems blurry. But then I lean in and start to hear something. Melodies. Chords. Harmonies. Lyrics.”
He continued, “This book is the story of my life as told through twenty-three songs that took me away, soaring, starting at ground level, living in a poor but happy home, never wanting for much more, enjoying what I had, even when times got tough because I had my escape, my refuge, my music.”
