Southern Style

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.

Personnel

 * David Angell – violin
 * 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 on "Baby I'm Right"
 * Mike Johnson – dobro, pedal steel guitar
 * Anthony LaMarchina – cello
 * Andy Leftwich – fiddle, mandolin
 * Brent Mason – acoustic guitar, slide guitar
 * Greg Morrow – drums
 * Gordon Mote – Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards, piano, Wurlitzer
 * Danny Rader – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
 * Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
 * Rich Robinson – slide guitar on "Southern Style"
 * Frank Rogers – electric guitar, piano
 * Darius Rucker – lead vocals
 * Bryan Sutton – banjo, acoustic guitar
 * Russell Terrell – background vocals
 * Bobby Terry – acoustic guitar
 * Derek Wells – electric guitar
 * Kristin Wilkinson – string arrangements, viola
 * Glenn Worf – bass guitar