The annual list of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees is announced in January, and it's anyone's guess who will make the coveted short list, but according to Darius Rucker, you'll never hear Hootie & The Blowfish's name called. In fact, he says he and his longtime rock band have “no shot.”
Darius tells us: “Never gonna happen (laughs). It's never gonna happen. When CNN does a show on the music of the 90s and don't even mention Hootie & The Blowfish, for us to think that we were gonna get into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is pretty crazy, don't ya think? We got no shot. We don't have the kind of respect you need to get in there. Do I think we deserve to be in there? Absolutely. We changed music. We saved music. We changed radio, but, you know, that's not enough for them. If we got in I'd be really happy but I'm not holding my breath.”
Darius continues his success in the Country world with his latest single, “Beers And Sunshine,” which is a Top 10 hit and climbing. It's the debut release from Darius' upcoming studio album.