A beautiful, blonde-haired Southern gal and colorful rockin' footage of Darius Rucker's home state of South Carolina bring his new single "Homegrown Honey" to life in his new video. The song which dropped Sept. 29 is the first single from his fourth solo country album to be released in early 2015.
Darius Rucker proves with his brand-new video for "Homegrown Honey" that you can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl, reports Rolling Stone. A boot-sporting, whiskey-shooting video vixen takes center stage, making some New York City boys salivate.
Clips of her barroom flirtation are interspersed with shots of Rucker jamming with his road band, and the singer finally meets his "honey" at a concert in Conway, South Carolina, just about two hours from his hometown of Charleston.
According to Myrtle Beach Online, the video was filmed in his home state of South Carolina. For the video, Rucker used footage from a recent performance at HTC Center on Aug. 23 as well as Coastal Carolina University and the Rivertown Bistro in Conway, S.C., reports Radio.com.
The mainly performance video shows Rucker and his band getting ready for a show at HTC Center as they hang out backstage and ready for soundcheck before the show. Additionally, the song's plot of a girl "sitting in a bar in New York City everyone here looking New York pretty," is portrayed by an attractive lady who dances around the bar and later is called up onstage during Rucker's performance.
In an interview with Radio.com earlier this month, Rucker said Lady Antebellum's Charles Kelley actually had the idea for the song.
"I was playing golf with Charles Kelley one day," he told Radio.com. "Charles is probably my best friend in the business, we get along really well. 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.'"
Rucker will release his first holiday LP, "Home for the Holidays," on October 27, notes Rolling Stone. The 12-track collection includes two original Christmas tunes co-written by the singer, along with a "Baby, It's Cold Outside" duet with Sheryl Crow.
For his new studio album due out early next year, Darius is working with producer Frank Rogers who also produced his three previous solo country albums. All three albums debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Album chart and have produced a total of six No. 1 singles, including "Wagon Wheel," "Come Back Song," "This," "Alright," "It Won't Be Like This For Long" and "Don't Think I Don't Think About It." "Wagon Wheel," Darius' most recent No. 1, held the top spot for two weeks and garnered the 2014 Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance.
