My Niece Loves Darius Rucker… Yah that’s right, I said it. She wiggles & shakes and can’t get enough. I had my own love interest in him….back in the day. The year was 1992. I spent all summer mowing lawns and then I got my golden ticket. My first concert would be Hootie! My parents dropped me off at the swimming pool supply store where I was meeting a family friend who’d offered to take me to the show. The magic began in the lot, where I found a fifty dollar bill… Later I would treat myself to my first concert t-shirt and a Chi-Chi’s* dinner… Chi-Chi’s may be long gone but my love affair with music had ignited like the hot salsa. Look’s like my little Zoe is keeping the tradition alive… Darius might be clean shaven, but the allure is still there.
*Chi-Chi’s, a now defunct midwestern Mexican chain restaurant, was the closest thing to “ethnic eating” my family entertained growning up.