For almost his entire life, Darius Rucker has been obsessed with music. In his new memoir, Life’s Too Short, Rucker remembers listening to Al Green’s cover of “For the Good Times” “ten, twenty times in a row” at the age of 6, meandering bar to bar during college to request the Black Crowes’ “She Talks to Angels,” and rewinding the video for the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Big Poppa” all night one Fourth of July. “I listen to a song I love not for hours, but for days,” Rucker writes. “I listen until the song inserts itself into me, until it becomes a part of my soul.”
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