DARIUS RUCKER RELEASES “WAGON WHEEL” VIDEO FEATURING A&E’S DUCK DYNASTY CAST AND LADY ANTEBELLUM’S CHARLES KELLEY

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Capitol Records Nashville’s Darius Rucker recently shot the video for his critically acclaimed hit single “Wagon Wheel” in Nashville, Tenn. Directed by Jim Wright, the video features several guest appearances, including Jase, Korie, Sadie, Si and Willie Robertson from A&E’s Duck Dynasty and Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum who along with bandmates, Dave Haywood and Hillary Scott, sing background vocals on the single. The video can be seen at http://vevo.ly/WYa6Df. 

“Wagon Wheel,” written by Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show and based on a sketch by Bob Dylan, has been exploding on the Country digital singles chart with double-digit increases for the last five weeks. The single is featured on Rucker’s upcoming country album, True Believers, in stores on May 21st.

Rucker recently had a childhood dream come true when he was inducted as the member of the Grand Ole Opry. His first two country albums, Learn To Live and Charleston, SC 1966 both topped the Billboard Country album chart and produced five No. 1 singles including “Come Back Song,” “This,” “Alright,” “It Won’t Be Like This For Long” and “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It.” In 2009 Rucker was named New Artist of the Year at the CMA Awards.

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True Believers album cover and Wagon Wheel video photos can be downloaded at http://bit.ly/13iARVC.

AUDIO: Darius Rucker explains how he got to be a big fan of A&E’s hit show, Duck Dynasty.

Darius Rucker (Duck Dynasty) OC: …fun, though. :33
DARIUS: “I was just sitting in the back of my bus one day and flipping through the channels and Duck Dynasty came on. It was a marathon. It started at 7 o’clock and at about 12 o’clock, I realized I was still watching Duck Dynasty. [laughs] I think what I like about it is it’s real. That’s what I love about it. It’s real. I love to…and it’s right in the middle of the South where I live, where I’m from, what I’m a part of, you know, I get everything they say, ‘cause I lived it. So, I love it. The personalities are great. Nobody’s funnier than Jase, except Si, you know. [laughs]” JASE: “Si is crazy.” DARIUS: “He’s crazy. He’s fun, though.”

AUDIO: Darius Rucker says Duck Dynasty is one of the only television shows he can watch with his kids, who weren’t happy they couldn’t come to the video shoot for “Wagon Wheel.”

Darius Rucker (Duck Dynasty) 2 OC: …all week. :23
“You know, being a father and stuff, there’s not a lot of shows I can watch with my kids, and we sit and watch it. Like my kids are angry at me right now. When I told them they weren’t coming these two days, when I told them y’all were coming and they couldn’t come, my middle daughter is still not talking to me. She wouldn’t talk to me on the phone last night. [laughs] But, you know, for me, it’s my favorite show. I tweeted the other day that it’s my new Monday Night Football. It’s my favorite show. It’s the show I wait for all week.”

AUDIO: Jase Robertson from Duck Dynasty explains why he feels fans connect with the show.

Jase Robertson (Duck Dynasty) OC: …who they are. 1:03
JASE: “We call ‘em the TV people; when they showed up, I think they were going to try to do a typical reality show with all the fits of rage and dysfunction and we’re like, ‘We actually get along and love each other.’ Now, we like to laugh and have a good time. But when they met Si, they said, ‘You know what? I think we can make this work.’ [laughs] DARIUS: “I’m sure. I’m sure.” JASE: “We get to be ourselves, and it’s a family show, because we love each other. We give each other a hard time, but at the end of the day, our favorite thing they show on TV, which is the favorite thing we do, is we gather around the table and we eat real good and we say a prayer, and we say, ‘Whatever happened today, this is what it’s all about.’ And in the meantime, we laugh and have a good time, and I think that’s why people like it. Everybody likes to laugh or sometimes they need to laugh because they’re going through something tough, and they see a family for who they are.”