Southern Style is the sixth studio album and fourth in the country genre by American singer Darius Rucker. It was released on March 31, 2015, by Capitol Records Nashville. The album's lead single, "Homegrown Honey", was released to country radio on August 25, 2014. The album's second single, the title track was released to country radio on May 4, 2015. The album won International Album of the Year at the British Country Music Association Awards.
Background News about Rucker's working on his fourth country release was first announced in August 2014. Sixty songs were written for the album then with twelve to fifteen of them being cut for the record. Once again Rucker worked with record producer, Frank Rogers on the album. On working with Rogers, Rucker says, "I can't go in to record with the attitude that I want to sound different. It's all about the songs for me. I want great songs. And if we have great songs, then Frank is the genius and does what he does." When Rucker was visiting The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on January 12, 2015, he announced that his new album would be called Southern Style, as well as the release date, and tour to support the album.
Commercial performance The album debuted at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums, his fourth No. 1 on the chart. It also debuted on Billboard 200 at No. 7, with 52,000 copies sold in the US for the week. As of September 2016, the album has sold 199,000 copies in the United States.
Track listing
Personnel
Musicians David Angell – violin Eddie Bayers – drums Blake Bollinger – background vocals Pat Buchanan – slide guitar J.T. Corenflos – electric guitar Eric Darken – percussion David Davidson – violin Drew Davis – background vocals Shannon Forrest – drums Aubrey Haynie – fiddle , mandolin Wes Hightower – background vocals Mallary Hope – vocals Mike Johnson – pedal steel guitar , dobro Anthony LaMarchina – cello Stephen Lamb – copyist Andy Leftwich – mandolin , fiddle
Brent Mason – acoustic guitar , electric guitar , slide guitar Greg Morrow – drums Gordon Mote – piano , Hammond B-3 organ , keyboards , Wurlitzer Danny Rader – acoustic guitar , electric guitar , banjo Michael Rhodes – bass guitar Rich Robinson – slide guitar Frank Rogers – electric guitar , piano Darius Rucker – lead vocals Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar , banjo Russell Terrell – background vocals Bobby Terry – acoustic guitar , banjo guitar Derek Wells – electric guitar Kristin Wilkinson – string arrangements and viola Glenn Worf – bass guitar
Technical personnel Scotty Alexander – digital editing assistant Brady Barnett – digital editing assistant Richard Barrow – engineer and additional engineering Drew Bollman – additional engineering and assistant mix engineer Jason Campbell – production coordinator Neal Cappellino – additional engineering Tom Freitag – assistant engineer Jeff Hodges – additional assistant engineering Travis Humbert – assistant engineer and additional engineering Scott Johnston – production assistance John Kelton – engineer and mixing Trevor Marron – additional assistant engineering Beau Maxwell – assistant engineer Justin Niebank – mixing Frank Rogers – producer Keith Stegall – producer Hank Williams – mastering Brian David Willis – digital editing and additional engineering
Chart performance
Weekly charts Chart (2015) Peakposition
Year-end charts Chart (2015) Position US Billboard 200189 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)22
Singles Year Single Peak chart positions US Country US Country Airplay US CAN Country CAN 2014 "Homegrown Honey" 6 2 53 11 76 2015 "Southern Style" 38 33 — — —
Release history +List of release dates, showing region, label, format and edition(s) Region Date Format(s) Label Edition(s)United StatesMarch 31, 2015CD, digital downloadCapitol NashvilleStandard
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