SCOVG20 digital edition-1 - Flipbook - Page 5
DAVID MCCLISTER
T
HE
R
O
F
First
TIME
BY LIBBY WIERSEMA
When was the last time you did
something for the first time?
Yeah, yeah, let yourself go,
come on follow that feeling.
Maybe something new is what
you’re needing.
Taking a chance on love might be the obvious
sentiment of this refrain from Darius Rucker’s
hit song, “For the First Time,” but South
Carolina’s favorite musical son holds to a broader
interpretation. To him, it’s also about falling in
love with new experiences and crossing them off
the old bucket list. It’s not a lifestyle choice for
Rucker—it’s the only way to live.
As a native and longtime resident of the Palmetto
State, Rucker knows where and how to have fun
DARIUS RUCKER
MAKES THE
CASE FOR WHY
HIS FAVORITE
ADVENTURES
SHOULD BE
FIRST ON YOUR
SOUTH CAROLINA
BUCKET LIST
right where he lives. Sure, winning Grammys,
playing front man for Hootie & the Blowfish and
watching a solo country music career explode like
a supernova is beyond thrilling. But Rucker will be
the first to say that his pinnacle moments have
played out in South Carolina. With his favorite
things in mind, Rucker poses this question to
South Carolina vacationers: “When was the last
time you did something for the first time?”
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