Personal Life
Rucker is a Miami Dolphins fan, and has a tattoo of their logo. He also likes the film Stir Crazy, which he has seen more than 100 times.
Rucker's mother died in November 1992 of a sudden heart attack. His grief inspired two Hootie & the Blowfish songs: "I'm Goin' Home" and "Not Even the Trees." On April 21, 1995, Rucker became a father to a daughter, Carolyn Pearl Phillips. The girl's mother is Rucker's former girlfriend and the subject of "Let Her Cry", in which he flipped gender roles from those of reality. Daniella Rose—his second daughter and his first with his wife Beth—was born on May 16, 2001, in Charleston, South Carolina. Rucker and his wife Beth have a son, Jack who was born in 2005. The Hootie song "Where Were You" is about Rucker's strained relationship with his father, and was only released in Europe, where Rucker thought that his father would be unlikely to hear it. His country single "Alright" was inspired by his marriage to his wife, Beth.
Rucker is close friends with golfer Tiger Woods, whom he met in a bar when Woods was 18. Rucker sang at the golfer's wedding with Hootie & the Blowfish, and at his father's funeral.
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