2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 176: I want to make a country album. Yeah. Me. A Black guy. [...] Charley Pride broke the color barrier first. [...] I can be Charley Pride 2.0. Why not?at 2.0, n.
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 95: [H]ere we are, for the first time ever, two adults, sitting at my kitchen table, drinking, talking, laughing. It feels strange and—awesome.at awesome, adj.
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 188: You know what? I just decided. I’m not doing this fundraiser. [...] Book some other band. I’m bailing.at bail, v.
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 110: We’re old, true, and some of us may not be in the best shape of our lives, but we can ball.at ball, v.4
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 212: Every day is a trip. Completely joyful. I’m having such a blast, I want to pinch myself.at blast, n.1
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 62: T]here is something so easy about us, a familiarity, like we’ve known each other before and we’re picking up where we left off. Dean and I just click.at click, v.3
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 155: I wish my mom were alive. I would have comped her a first-row seat.at comp, v.
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 45: When he offers advice, he speaks with care and kindness. He also takes no crap and calls us out.at take crap (v.) under crap, n.1
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 98: I’ve been listening to Nanci’s album Little Love Affairs constantly and especially to this song, the eighth or ninth cut.at cut, n.1
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 132: I’m not into the Devil’s Lettuce even though here [i.e. Amsterdam] you find the highest-quality weed in Europe.at devil’s lettuce (n.) under devil, n.
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 107: We make hundreds of copies and send them everywhere, an epic CD blast.at epic, adj.
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 91: Not only does Rusty listen to it, he flips. He loves the music.at flip, v.4
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 68: One time, after we set up to play at a frat party, I hit the head.at frat, n.
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 6: We’ve been touring nonstop, on the road constantly, finally coming to the last leg of back-to-back tour stops, and I’m fried. I need a break.at fried, adj.
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 139: I’m feeling a little gassed from the travel and the nonstop performing.at gassed(-out), adj.
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 25: Give my mom props. She gets into Barry [Manilow]—a little.at get into, v.
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 188: As always, I rise to the occasion, get it up to perform.at get it up, v.
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 212: A couple days [of recording] in, I loosen up and go with the flow.at go with the flow (v.) under go with, v.
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 6: [T]hose days we played stadiums at night, night after night, and smoked and snorted and drank the rest of the time. We partied hard.at hard, adv.
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 102: I can’t get enough of these guys—[...] their costumes, their makeup, their attitude, and their headbanging music.at headbanging, adj.
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 110: Mark is a hoop rat [...] eager to take on any five who’ll play us.at hoop, n.1
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 8: ‘I know what you need. Let’s fire up a hooter.’ We head into the house, to my room, and we smoke a blunt the size of an eggplant.at hooter, n.5
2024 D. Rucker Life’s Too Short 143: [of a song] Two and a half minutes of heaven. We kill it.at kill, v.