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Forget “Accidental Racist” — “Wagon Wheel” is the video you need to see
This CD cover image released by Capitol Nashville shows “True Believers,” by Darius Rucker. (AP Photo/Capitol Nashville)Country music star Brad Paisley drew criticism when he took on the tricky topic of race in the music video for his single “Accidental Racist” earlier this year.Meanwhile, a more subtle and interesting video on the subject slipped under the radar: Darius Rucker’s version of “Wagon Wheel.”The former frontman of Hootie & the Blowfish, now enjoying a second career as a country crooner, has …
On his most recent album, Darius Rucker, who is black, covered Old Crow Medicine Show’s 2004 hit about traveling home to Raleigh, N.C. — a staple of Southern bar bands and karaoke machines. The chorus of the song comes from an unfinished sketch by Bob Dylan.
