Darius Rucker Made Sure His Book Was All True
Darius Rucker released his memoir Life’s Too Short last month, and fans wanting to know about his life in the music business and beyond will get the real stories, straight…
Darius Rucker released his memoir Life's Too Short last month, and fans wanting to know about his life in the music business and beyond will get the real stories, straight from the source.
Darius told us that he wanted the book to be 100% legit. He said, "For me, I don't know how other people do it, but I always said that if I ever write a book, I was going to be as honest as I could be."
He admitted to confessing, "There's some over-the-top stuff, but I just wanted to tell the story. I wanted people to understand the hard stuff and the good stuff."
"So when I was writing the book, I wanted you to read it like you were sitting at a bar, and I was telling you my life story. That's how we wrote, and that's how we wanted it to be."
He offered some advice to other artists who want to write a book: "Now that it's done, I would tell other artists to just be honest with themselves and write it like they are telling the story."
Rucker wanted his kids grown before he wrote and released his new memoir, Life's Too Short: A Memoir. It was released on May 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."
