Jul 20, 2020
Singer/songwriter and country hitmaker Jimmie
Allen joins me to talk about Learn to Live, the 2008 album that launched
Darius Rucker from Hootie and the Blowfish
frontman into country superstar. Jimmie talks about sneaking on to
Darius’s tour bus when he first moved to Nashville, what it meant
to see black artists achieving success in genres outside RnB and
hip-hop, the advice Darius gave him, and the historic duet he
recorded with Darius and Charley Pride on his new
EP Bettie James.
Plus, Jimmie reveals why he turned down pop record deals to pursue
a career in country music and how even before Jimmie was an
established artist, Darius was getting him backstage without even
knowing it.