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Chewing Wild Oats on the Farm
Darius Rucker proves that inoffensiveness still has its heartland place
Mikael Wood
Tuesday, August 16th 2005
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photo: Mark Tucker
Still chewing their not-so-wild oats
Details:
Looking for Lucky
Sneaky Long/Vanguard
Stream " Get Out of My Mind"
Stream "Can I See You" (Windows Media)
See also:
NEW! Clubrat Special by Robert Christgau
Now that his old VH1 compatriot Rob Thomas has traded the namby-pamby roots-pop with which he once conquered every sports bar in America for a sexed-up disco-rock useful for seducing daughters of Mick Jagger, it's up to Darius Rucker to prove there's still an appetite for inoffensive heartland aphorisms set to handsome, tuneful chunk-strum. (Actually, considering his 2002 neo-soul solo disc and the arty, sexed-up Burger King spot he starred in earlier this year—as a bejeweled rodeo singer under the direction of glam-king photog David LaChapelle—Rucker has to prove that predigested oatmeal is still his bag too.)
Not to worry: Looking for Lucky, the first album of new Blowfish material since last year's Atlantic-era best-of, is as familiar and reassuring as a rerun of Best Week Ever. Inevitably, Rucker and his bandmates don't sound as major league as they used to, but that's not necessarily a handicap. There's a hard-won farm team warmth to the accurately titled "Waltz Into Me" and "Leaving," about Rucker standing near the ocean in his birthday suit (an image even LaChapelle might resist). As the singer observes in "State Your Peace," "It's like driving down the middle of the road with no hands on the wheel."
Hootie & the Blowfish play the North Fork Theatre in Westbury, NY, August 28.
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