Geoff Bennett:

The 57-year-old Rucker headlining his own music festival and celebrating the release of a new country album, promoting it with an in-store performance at Charleston’s Monster Music.

We were there as Rucker entertained the crowd packed into this old-school record store with a trio of hits, including this one, “Wagon Wheel.” This song dates back a decade to 2013, when Rucker rode this smash single to number one on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart and made it one of the top five bestselling country songs of all time.

Darius Rucker was inducted into Nashville’s Music City Walk of Fame in early October and will soon receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, fame that Rucker could never have imagined. Raised by a single mother, money was hard to come by. At times, his three bedroom-house held as many as 14 children and four adult family members.

But they were always rich in love, in large part, Rucker says, because of his mom, Carolyn, the namesake of his newest album.

Tell me about her.