rucker's new album is also dedicated to his mom. it's called "carolyn's boy."t to talk about his life and music. ♪ no regrets ♪ ♪ don't forget to have a good time ♪ >> reporter: his voice is one of music's most recognizable. ♪ have a good time ♪ >> reporter: a distinctive sound that goes back more than 30 years to one of the top pop groups of the '90s. ♪ and just let her cry ♪ >> reporter: but after the record label lost interest in hootie and the blowfish, darius rucker went solo and made music history. >> most people were saying this was never, ever going to work. >> never going to work? >> never. >> never been done? no one comes over from pop. >> no one comes over from pop and the black guy is going to come over from pop? this is not going to work, you know. but that's always been fun to prove people wrong. ♪ history in the making ♪ >> reporter: prove people wrong he did. 15 years ago, rucker's first country album debuted at number one. ♪ this could be one of those memories ♪ >> reporter: since then, he's had ten number one country singles. and his take on w

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and runs into rucker and his barricade across the road. there is a fight in the dark and rucker is captured, wounded, captured, having his arm amputated. it was mission accomplished. taking a left here, maryland way, not far north of here. he did his job to stop the calvary. stanley horan said in night 54, the most decisive battle of the civil war. what else. the only battle that the confederate through. a lot of them. yes. was a total disaster for good, yes. and essentially ended the fight or so we have thought. just after nashville the u.s. calvary pursued the army all the way to the tennessee river. engagements onset timber 17th. the confederate troops needed to come back to franklin on december 17th and what did they see. arms and legs sticking out of the grave. the remnants of the fight to a half weeks before. another killer of morale. they also fault that they are on 1217 , comes back into the picture from murphy's road, he and ed walters, essentially saving the army and a running wild retreat and cold rainy weather on terrible roadw

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performing "have a good time," darius rucker.ing too fast ♪ ♪ 'til life reminded me i had to slow it all down ♪ ♪ instead of worryin' about things i can't change ♪ ♪ gonna lay in the sun and dance in the rain ♪ ♪ do a little more livin' right here in the here and now ♪ ♪ and find out how ♪ ♪ to have a few hell yeahs ♪ ♪ have some back porch hallelujahs ♪ ♪ sippin' on a sunset ♪ ♪ while the good lord's talking to ya ♪ ♪ ride the lows, chase the highs ♪ ♪ fall in love and love this life ♪ ♪ place your bets, no regrets ♪ ♪ and don't forget to have a good time ♪ ♪ yeah, breathe it all out, take it all in ♪ ♪ gonna call up a couple of good old friends ♪ ♪ and along the way maybe make a few more ♪ ♪ take a second chance on the chances i missed ♪ ♪ put a few more checks on the bucket list ♪ ♪ amen, ain't that all what we're all here for? ♪ to have a few hell yeahs ♪ have some back porch hallelujahs ♪ ♪ sippin' on a sunset ♪ sippin' on a sunset ♪ while the good lord's talking to ya ♪ ♪ ride the lows chase the highs ♪ ♪ fall in love and l

fort rucker, alabama, was named after him prior to world war two. james wilson, hero of the battle for, a hero in battle. w, that's a payne force one, that good looking and yeah and you know you can see it and debate maybe not in these political times who he was as a person where he we in his later days he knew what he was on the battlefield uneducated but, you know, he had an approa. he knethe ground and his troops believed. but that's a painting from 1970. the thing they made him work a lot better than you really look it in awful. john macarthur. and it was so bad on this. what is this the darkest of all decembers ever. why his in the sounds of the night. my heart bleeds to the pleasure and powerful ps i think about my home, my beloved parents, my brothe a sisters, my wife, darling, children. the friends that are gone one and more and many other who has been a joy. and thiwilderness of sand. one of the letters from the confederate on the retreat promise, general order 169 december 49, 1864. we have in good did 15,000 casualties and killed ending t

ed rucker, look at those eyes. oh my gosh. killer eyes. he is the one that put the fight up at the barricade and he became a multimillionaire and even in those days in birmingham and here is a picture later in his life showing his left arm sh off and fort rucker, alabama, was named after him. prior to world war ii. james wilson, hero of the battle. here a hero of the battle. this a painting. he wasn't that good looking. and, you know, you can sit and debate and maybe not in these political times, who we was as a person and where he went in his later days. but he knew what he was doing on the battlefield. uneducated, but, you know, he had an approach and knew the ground and his troops believed in him. but that is a painting from 76i think and they de him look a lot better. here is ed waffle and john macarthur and it was sobad. look at this. the darkest of all decembers ever life is known in the solemn illness of the night, my heart clings to the pleasant and powerful past. i think about my home, my beloved parents, brhe and sisters, my wife

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tomorrow morning my conversation with darius rucker. and 9 blow fish and one of the best selling albums in history of music. now the new album that honors his late mother. >> why did you dedicate this album to her? >> sitting there thinking engd of the day i'm just my mom's boy and signed sew record labels because, really, in my heart who i am. just my mom's kid. she taught us to be nice, to care, to give back. >> a sunday sitdown with darius rucker plus the morning's latest headlines, harry smith and another "life well lived" when we air at 6:00 a.m. not up at this hour an a sunday set the dvr and we'll see you whenever you're ready for us. kira? >> thanks, willie. >>> hopefully you're awake at 6:00 and then stick right here for your local news with us on "today in the bay" at 7:00. >>> here is a quick look at top stories we're following on this saturday morning including that breaking news out of the middle east. we have a live look for you at the gaza strip where the group hamas launched an unprecedented attack overnight. palestinian

alkahottie cutting my i understand you just were done from the east around 11 and border backlash as high, rucker and between has been lined is bailey ami, how tens is the situation there as well? it's obvious that it's gets more tense every day and more tense means more shredding on both sides. but the interesting thing it's like is it is still on both sides. consider the rules of engagement. they're being psych, or it's all concentrated on the immediate, the board, the area on both sides and the, even like when i was there, like, uh, a few days ago this, even in the timing does a certain kind of gauge when we came there. and in the early afternoon, and one of the is paula man said to to us a don't very it was started 5 o'clock so there seems to be kind of some new sure. what else of engagements that are still uh and can sit up by both sides and say, this is say, as long as this, i agree, way it's not going to escalate the escalation. would it be when one side of like something that has bullet decides to fire rockets deep into is right? or if the is right and what to bombard, targets inside. why

cutting my i understand you just been done from the east, around 11 and bought a backlash as high rucker in between has been lined. it's very ami. how tens is the situation there when it's obvious that it's gets more tens every day and more tense means more shredding on both sides. but the interesting thing is like is it is still about both sides. consider the, the rules of engagement that'd be inside care. it's all concentrated on the immediate, the board, the area on both sides and the, even like when i was there, like a few days ago. this even in the timing there's a certain who notification as we came there in the early afternoon and one of the his phone them and said to, to us a don't very it was stopped at 5 o'clock. so there seems to be kind of some, are you sure what else of engagements that are still uh and can sit up by both sides and say, this is as long as this. i agree way. it's not going to escalate. the escalation will be when one side of like something that his bullet decides to fire ok deep into is ryan or if the is right and what to bombard, targets inside. why the insi

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the great darius rucker. >> jimmy: ooh, he's got a new record coming out. [ cheers and applause >> he'sy is, man, he's solid >> and what a ride, right? like, the hootie & the blowfish album was the eighth biggest selling album in the history of bands, in the history of music, like with the eagles, and the beatles, and the stones and led zeppelin - >> jimmy: they were a bar band -- a bar band, right? >> exactly they were a college band in in south carolina >> jimmy: south carolina >> yeah, and now he's become this country star. so darius -- >> jimmy: yeah, that's - >> darius will be on this weekend, yeah. >> jimmy: willie, i love you i love everything you do i love "sunday today." i love "morning joe," i love you on the "today" show, and i love you on "the tonight show. >> thanks man. i'm so glad you're here. >> jimmy: please [ cheers and applause you're the best buddy. >> welcome back guys [ cheers and applause >> jimmy: willie geist check him out on "sunday today" and weekday mornings on "morning joe." we'll be right back with a a performance from carly pearce stick around, everybody!

rucker pointing saying he was drawn off. >> referee: false start, offense, number 73. >> sean: and herake tonight made it all 20 of his career starts at quarterback in north carolina in which he passed for more than 200 yards, with 273. won't get to -- how about this? rashard smith behind the defense for a miami touchdown. 54 yards. last thing you want to do if you're don chapman or any of these tar heel defenders is let somebody get by you deep. >> greg: this is just a great route there by smith. sets him up on the slot fade. you see him hesitate, get to the outside. chapman's kind of flatfooted there, outside. he blows by him, and van d throws a strike downdownfield. >> sean: so rashard smith, who had six catches all year has three tonight for 90 yards and a touchdown, second touchdown of the season. andy borregales, the extra point. and the 'canes fighting to the end, down by ten now with 2:17. >> greg: this is a good football team, too. i know that they have had their share of self-inflicted mistakes tonight, multiple turnovers and costly mistakes, but look at the rest of their sc

all-star brant rucker blasted his team leading 30th of the year. a's lose seven three.finish at 50 and 112. the off season should be interesting for the a's in plenty of ways. the 49 ers four and zero warriors have media day tomorrow . we just keep on rolling. sharks open the season in october is the best sports month in my opinion, and you're one to know. >> congratulations to the wedding. you and sean kelly just tied the knot two days ago. >> yeah. back at work. >> back at work. there we go. we like seeing that. all right. all right. up next, check out an nfl game as never seen before. the big change to appeal to kids next the prawns are delicious. oh, i have a shellfish allergy. one prawn. very good. did i say chicken wrong? tired of people not listening to what you want? it's truffle season! ah that's okay... never enough truffles. how much are they? it's a lot. oh okay - i'm good, that - it's like a priceless piece of art. enjoy. or when they sell you what they want? yeah. the more we understand you, the better we can help you. that's what u.s. bank is for. huge re

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need to wait at to see or, you know, leave that somebody thinks about is that we can still hear rucker's being fired out of gauze as you speak. and let's bring in, i have some who's here in the studio at valley unprecedented surprise. words that describe the situation i would expect. and right now, as speech by saw the hell out already who was the commander and how mass and he is and responsible is responsible for the west bank. this is what we were discussing earlier, where the west bank is going to also get into this situation. the large scale operational, unprecedented completion of the big question, given also the material that we are receiving through social media, especially palestinian telegram groups, lots of groups showing a lot of pictures of casualties in the settlements. also, besides the infiltration on the skirmishes or about those, i don't know how, how the skate and how much is it? why going on? yeah, because we, we can't yet verify the point. so we don't know what, what's the scale and how much of these and frustrations are really deep into the is ready territories. so y

i'll just rucker's being fired from the besiege policy and enclave towards israel warning sirens have been signing for most of the now and it around concert, as well as a central and southern israel. and we're looking at pictures there in the left hand corner of ask along as, as cause a place on the streets and blacks might streaming into the ask of course, one of the regular targets for work is coming out of gauze. it's short range. rockets would have reached that, but also we're hearing iraq is reaching as far as west recently and tele, vpn seem to come trails of rockets far through this going through the sky. and also the process make, which was the on time and limit 18 rockets. is that coming into israel? let's talk to riley. how should we strong this onset hit instead of hard? so at least 30 days, but it does seem as if it's sickly, particularly heavy and concern to the top go. well, given the pictures that we are seeing here, it seems it's a very large scale operation. uh, that's uh, that's involves a rocket. launching also infiltration because there are many videos now that you

i don't age of my alma mater, which is rucker's university. my would love for the school to look at their grades 1st foremost and only right. look at their grades, look at their application. however, there is, of course, there's a part of me that says this is momma mater. i would love for my girls to go to the college and have the same experience that i have. and again, money is at the root of all of this, i'm donating to make the athletic program better. so i can have a sense of pride around my university so, so there are 2 students, and one of them is your daughter. and the other one is somebody else's daughter and they're equal and they get to give your daughter an advantage because her dad has been good enough to be an alumni and has given support to the school. i'm fine with that, but i don't want them to take your daughter and put them above somebody who has much better clara qualifications than her send when it comes, mike happens to have a 20 bucks in his pocket and gabriel diversity. all right, and i agree wholeheartedly with all of t

we are now going to bring in chris rucker to talk, the former fbi assistant director for the criminal investigative division. chris, thank you very much for being with us this morning. i want to talk a little bit about the search for this man and what happened overnight because we saw last night law enforcement assets basically surrounded the gunman's home, the fields, there were people shouting. it seemed to be that he was possibly in the house, that did not turn out to be the case. they are also now tracking a boat that was registered to him, searching in the river. what does this, you know, full day two of this manhunt look like? >> yeah, i think we're going to see a search warrant actually executed at the compound. the house or houses at the compound. that's that they went there for that law enforcement did yesterday. and, of course, that place has been under surveillance since they learned the identity of the shooter. so, i think they have been watching the house all day. and hoping that he would show up and at some point they decided to go in or -- that's when they threw the fla

stapleton was a successful songwriter working behind the scenes with artists like tim mcgraw and darius ruckerton's time in the spotlight would come. and, boy, has it. since the release of his 2015 album "traveler," the native of eastern kentucky with the famous beard and the unmistakable voice, has been one of the most popular and revered artists in all of music, filling up arenas and stadiums around the world with no gimmicks, just talent. around the release of his upcoming album "higher" chris invited us for a "sunday sitdown" inside the nashville inner sanctum where he makes his music. ♪♪ >> a treasure-trove. >> this is fun stuff. i could get lost in all day. >> this is the rehearsal space? >> we pretty much have this set up as we would set up on our stage, a show. >> it's like a play house, i imagine, for a musician. you come in here, guitars and drums. >> a candy store a little bit. a place to put that stuff, grab that and see what it does. >> you might find a hit song, grabbing things off the wall. >> that's the hope. and also the hope you get to make the sounds that give the vibrations

senate armed services ranking member rucker wicker -- roger wicker said he absolutely supports linkingaine in israel aid and it's a solid majority in the house and the senate could to macbook the senate appropriations vice chair said each of the four elements are critical. we have seen bipartisan support for the national security supplemental and obviously it includes ukraine and israel. there is no reason we should not be able to move forward to get that done. >> speaker johnson's voting record shows he's opposed strongly opposed to gun-control safety legislation. what realistically can get done with this speaker? >> i hear the question. look what just happened last night, look what happened in maine in a small community of 30,000 people and clearly the gunman is still at large. and so it is a dynamic situation on the ground, but as far as we know, 18 people were killed and we should not have weapons of war in our communities, schools or anywhere in the communities. this is gun violence epidemic and the time is now to act and here is the thing, speaker johnson and all of the members o

. >> darius rucker is the latestt. had us on on friday. geist it changed our lives >> overnight. >> overnight i wouldn't be talking to you without it he changed our lives. >> what an album oh, i love that. catch more of that conversation. i'm sure it will be wonderful. they usually are when you watch "sunday today" with willie. >> fantastic >>> still ahead, lookie lookie who is in studio 1a. they will tell us all about this hilarious reunion on broadway. >> oh, no. >> but, first, weather and these messages. >> too close >>> good morning. it is 8:26. i'm marcus washington. today is the final day in a three-day strike for kaiser employees. 75,000 workers across six states are striking. about half of that total is located here in northern california. doctors and nurses are not part of the strike. hospitals and emergency rooms have remained open. many nonessential procedures are postponed. >>> time for a look at the forecast with meteorologist kari hall. >> the heat advisory kicks in again today at 11:00 a.m. and continues through tomorrow eve

whether he's a hootie and the blowfish fan or darius rucker, he gets them both.er carolyn who passed away before he blew up and had massive success, and he talk about hootie and the blowfish, the debut album, joe, sold 21 copies. >> that's crazy. >> it's number eight all-time up there with zeppelin and the beatles and the stones. an astonishing run coming up on nbc "sunday today," and we'll be back here on "morning joe" on a friday morning. back here on "morning joe" on a friday morning only the new sleep number smart beds let you both sleep at your ideal level of comfort. your sleep number setting. and now, all of our new next gen smart beds have temperature benefits. the all-new queen sleep number® c2 smart bed is only $880. sleep next level. shop now only at sleep number. (vo) in three seconds, janice will win a speedboat. (woman) bingo! i'm moving to the lake. gotta sell the house. (vo) ooh! that's a lot of work. (woman) ooh! (vo) don't worry. skip the hassels and sell directly to opendoor. (woman) bingo. (vo) get your competitive offer at opendoor dot com. >