NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Darius Rucker is still lucent from one of his new gigs. It wasn"t personification a sold-out locus on the Rascal Flatts" debate or interesting screaming fans at a honky tonk. Instead, Rucker went room to room at the Veterans Administration sanatorium here, singing for one or dual patients at a time.
"It was an extraordinary experience, only going in and examination the faces," pronounced Rucker. "Those guys are in there, they"re vets, and they"re not feeling well. You get in there and you only fool around a strain for them and only watch their faces, people smiling. You appear to only be creation people happy for those two-and-a-half, 3 mins that you"re playing. That was awesome."
The classification Musicians On Call organised last week"s revisit as piece of a national bid to move live and available song to patients. Rucker played a accumulation of songs during his visit, but his initial No. 1 nation hit, "Don"t Think I Don"t Think About It," unequivocally struck a chord.
"You know it was wild to fool around "Don"t Think" and to watch those guys sing along. That was a good moment," he said.
A series of veterans sang the words, bobbed their heads and tapped their feet.
"It rises your spirits," pronounced hospitalized maestro Gloria McCoy. "You"re in here by yourself majority of the time ... somebody comes and sings to you similar to that, it"s unequivocally enjoyable."
Some of the lyrics in Rucker"s song, "Don"t Think I Don"t Think About It," speak about carrying regrets, observant "Don"t think it don"t get to me, in between the work and the harm and the whiskey."
For maestro David Cannon, conference the difference done him rip up: "It got me, it did."
"It unequivocally strike home with a integrate guys," pronounced Rucker. "That one man that got the tears, it was just, that"s because you write music, but you never unequivocally design it to happen, and when it does, it"s a good feeling."
Rucker played a good unison at the Hardrock Cafe in Nashville on Wednesday to lift income for Musicians on Call. He hopes the supports will capacitate some-more visits.
"I think all musicians should do this. I think everyone could do it, no make a difference what low-pitched genre you"re from," he said. "You see people at the sanatorium and you only design that they have visitors all the time. For me, only to be a piece of their day for a notation was such a good experience. Everytime I walked in the room, I only felt this is awesome. These people are vouchsafing me in their lives for a notation to let me fool around one of my songs. This was a day I"ll never forget."
Rucker is the reigning CMA new artist of the year. His 2008 entrance album, "Learn To Live," has constructed 3 uninterrupted No. 1 singles and a stream Top 5 single, "History In The Making." This week, he was nominated for the Academy of Country Music"s tip masculine vocalist. The ACM awards are handed out Apr eighteen in Las Vegas.
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