Darius Rucker releases new song, 'Never Been Over,' featuring Jennifer Nettles

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Darius Rucker has released a new song, “Never Been Over.” The song is a duet with Jennifer Nettles (from Sugarland), and when he wrote the tune with John Osborne and Lee Miller, he wanted it to be a duet at some point.

“I wrote it with John Osborne and Lee Miller, and we cut it. We talked about doing a duet, talked about a doing a duet. We just got deep in the record and never did it,” says the South Carolina native. “It was the first song that I ever went to the label and said, ‘Will you make this a single?’ And they said yeah, and I wanted to make it a duet so bad. And we talked about folks and talked about it, and somebody said Jennifer, I think my manager said, ‘How about Jennifer Nettles?’ And I instantly I went, ‘Absolutely,’ because ever since ‘Stay,’ I’ve wanted to sing with her, and I’m so glad I finally got to.”

Rucker is currently on tour across the pond. On Saturday, he’ll be performing at the O2 Apollo in Manchester, England, followed by dates in Newcastle, Birmingham, Bristol and London before wrapping up his European tour May 11 in Belfast.