Learn to Live

Infobox Album
Name = Learn to Live
Type = studio
Artist = Darius Rucker


Released = Start date|2008|09|16
Genre = Country
Length = 43:28
Label = Capitol Nashville
Producer = Frank Rogers
Reviews =
*Allmusic – rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0pfexzlkldte~T1 link]
Last album = "Back to Then"
(2002)
This album = "Learn to Live"
(2008)
Next album = TBD
Misc =Singles
Name = Learn to Live
Type = Studio
Single 1 = Don't Think I Don't Think About It
Single 1 date = May 27, 2008
Single 2 = It Won't Be Like This for Long
Single 2 date = November 3, 2008

"Learn to Live" is the second solo album by American musician Darius Rucker, who is both the lead vocalist of the rock band Hootie & the Blowfish and a solo artist. His first album of country music, the album was released by Capitol Records Nashville on September 16, 2008 (see 2008 in country music). It was produced by Frank Rogers, who has several co-writing credits here as well. The lead-off single, "Don't Think I Don't Think About It", reached Number One on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts in September 2008, and became the first Number One country single by a solo African American artist since Charley Pride's 1983 hit "Night Games". "It Won't Be Like This for Long" was released in early November 2008 as the second single from this album.

"Learn to Live" debuted at #1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and at #5 on the overall Billboard 200, selling 60,000 copies in its first week. [Caulfield, Keith. [http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/charts/chart_alert/e3i6981db61c01d2a4dc258a2a3119dde7b "Metallica Holds At No. 1, Ne-Yo Arrives In Second "] . "Billboard". September 24 2008.]

Track listing

#"Forever Road" (Frank Rogers, Darius Rucker, Chris Stapleton) - 4:01
#"All I Want" (Rogers, Rucker) - 3:49
#"Don't Think I Don't Think About It" (Clay Mills, Rucker) - 3:03
#"Learn to Live" (Rogers, Rucker) - 3:48
#"If I Had Wings" (Rogers, Rucker, Rivers Rutherford) - 4:03
#"History in the Making" (Mills, Rogers, Rucker) - 3:29
#"Alright" (Rogers, Rucker) - 3:51
#"It Won't Be Like This for Long" (Chris DuBois, Ashley Gorley, Rucker) - 3:39
#"Drinkin' and Dialin'" (DuBois, Gorley, Rucker) - 3:04
#"I Hope They Get to Me in Time" (Monty Criswell, Wade Kirby) - 3:26
#"While I Still Got the Time" (Rogers, Rucker, Rutherford) - 3:49
#"Be Wary of a Woman" (Dave Berg, Patrick Davis, Rucker) - 3:26

Personnel

*David Angell – strings
*Manisa Angell – violin
*Ron Block – banjo
*Mike Brignardello – bass guitar
*Jim "Moose" Brown – piano, Wurlitzer
*Pat Buchanan – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, mandolin
*Bradley Clark – background vocals
*J.T. Corenflos – electric guitar
*Eric Darken – percussion
*David Davidson – strings
*Dan Dugmore – steel guitar, Dobro
*Shannon Forrest – drums
*Melissa Fuller – background vocals
*Vince Gill – background vocals
*Aubrey Haynie – fiddle, mandolin
*Wes Hightower – background vocals
*John Hobbs – conductor, string arrangements
*Mike Johnson – steel guitar
*Alison Krauss – background vocals
*Anthony LaMarchina – cello, viola
*B. James Lowry  – acoustic guitar, resonator guitar
*Brent Mason – electric guitar, baritone guitar
*Greg Morrow – drums
*Gordon Mote – piano, Hammond organ
*Brad Paisley – electric guitar
*Frank Randazzo – background vocals
*Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
*Sarah Ross – background vocals
*Pamela Sixfin – strings
*Phillip Stein – background vocals
*Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin
*Ilya Toshinsky – acoustic guitar, mandolin
*Mary Kathryn Vanosdale – strings
*Waylon weatherholt – background vocals
*Kristin Wilkinson – violin, string arrangements

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