 Thirty years after that album's release, Hootie and the Blowfish is on the road, touring nationwide this summer. Lead singer Darius Rucker has a new memoir out, too. It's called Life's Too Short. We talked to him recently about the band's early days. It turns out he almost didn't let drummer Jim Soni Sonnefeld into the group. It was my freshman year in college in South Carolina, and there's this girl I really like. We're friends. We sing in the choir together. We're friends and become really good friends, but I want more.