By Annie Reuter
“A No. 1 never gets old,” Darius Rucker tells me with a big smile on his face.
Rucker is visiting Radio.com‘s New York offices today (March 30), less than 24 hours after learning that his song “Homegrown Honey,” which he wrote with Lady Antebellum‘s Charles Kelley and Nathan Chapman, would top this week’s Mediabase country singles chart.
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“Homegrown Honey” is the lead single off Rucker’s fourth solo album, Southern Style, due for release tomorrow (March 31).
“I remember my first No. 1. I remember how moved I was. It was really exciting. It was such a cool moment,” he recalls. “Yesterday when I got the text that we were probably going to be No. 1 again, it was the same feeling of, ‘This is awesome!’ To know that you’re the most played record in country music is pretty awesome.
“When I texted Charles [Kelley] to say congratulations he said it perfectly. He said, ‘It just never gets old.’ It’s still awesome.”
so proud to share a number one song today w @dariusrucker and Nathan Chapman for Homegrown Honey. can't wait to hear whole the record- ck
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Lady Antebellum (@ladyantebellum) March 30, 2015
“I was playing golf with Charles Kelley one day,” Rucker explained to us in an earlier interview. “Charles is probably my best friend in the business. He said, ‘Man, we’ve been in Nashville seven years and have never written a song.’ I hadn’t really thought about it, but he was right. We had never written a song together. When I got to the session he had this great idea he had started with the opening line, ‘Sitting in a bar in New York City everyone here looking New York pretty.’”
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