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Darius Rucker coming to Springfield

Local performance could be his last at an intimate venue

Darius Rucker will play Kuss Auditorium on Jan. 19.

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By Andrew McGinn, Staff Writer 2:23 PM Sunday, October 23, 2011

SPRINGFIELD — The last chance to see Darius Rucker in a venue as intimate as Kuss Auditorium might be Jan. 19 — at Kuss Auditorium.

“After this, he’s only doing big venues,” said Stuart Secttor, executive director of the Clark State Performing Arts Center, who booked the Hootie and the Blowfish frontman to play locally in the first part of 2012.

In the last several years, Rucker has re-emerged as a solo country singer with mega success.

Tickets for his 7:30 p.m. Springfield show, priced from $20 to $54, will go on sale Nov. 2 at the performing arts center beginning at 10 a.m., then online at pac.clarkstate.edu at noon.

Call (937) 328-3874 for more information.

Secttor was told by the William Morris talent agency of Rucker’s plan to focus on bigger venues after this show — and it makes sense.

He’s had nothing but success with country music since 2008’s “Learn to Live,” an album that spawned such hits as “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It” and “It Won’t Be Like This for Long.”

His most recent album, last year’s “Charleston, SC 1966,” features the No. 1 hits “Come Back Song” and “This.”

Named new artist of the year in 2009 at the CMA Awards, Rucker will begin a co-headlining arena tour on Jan. 27 with Lady Antebellum.

But can we still talk for a quick second about Hootie?

Their 1994 album “Cracked Rear View” is one of the best-selling albums of all time — ahead of “Abbey Road,” “Dark Side of the Moon” and the “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack.

Contact this reporter at amcginn@coxohio.com.

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