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Darius Rucker gets it from his mama.
And according to the Grammy winner, she had the pipes to do it.
My mom was special.
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They were both just stupidly great singers.
Ruckers mom Carolyn died of a heart attack in 1992.
Hootie & The Blowfish wouldnt make it big until two years later.
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The crooner recalled how she came tovisit him in Columbiajust a few days before she died.
Rucker called the spur-of-the-moment trip one of the greatest days of his life.
She had never once said, I’m gonna come see you.
And just out of the blue, she said, I’m gonna come see you.
And it’s like fate.
And she came, she saw me, and it was one of the greatest days of my life.
And I got to say everything to her I ever wanted to say.
And that was special to me.
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I love that picture so much, Rucker said.
It’s my family’s favorite picture of her.
Everybody’s got it.
That was her at 25 graduating nursing school.
I wanted that to be the cover.
Im sure she would have loved that, Evans noted.
Oh, she would have, Rucker agreed.
