Back to Then

Back to Then
Studio album by Darius Rucker
Released	July 30, 2002 (2002-07-30)
Genre	Neo soul
Length	51:13
Label	Hidden Beach EK 86492
Producer	Jimmy Cozier Vidal Davis Ivan Dupée Edward "DJ Eddie F" Ferrell Darren "Limitless" Henson Jeeve
Darius Rucker chronology
Back to Then (2002) Learn to Live (2008)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	C [2]
People	(mixed) [3]
PopMatters	(favorable) [4]
Rolling Stone	[5]

Back to Then is the debut studio album released by singer/songwriter Darius Rucker, lead singer of Hootie & The Blowfish. The album was a departure for him as this project was a contemporary R&B album, as compared to his group's pop/rock efforts.

In 2001, he recorded his first solo album, The Return of Mongo Slade, for Atlantic Records. However due to contractual changes, it was never released. Rucker then signed with Hidden Beach Recordings and released Back to Then in July 2002.

The song "This Is My World" was used in the soundtrack for the film Shallow Hal.

Track listing

1. "Wild One" (Vidal Davis, Andre Harris, Ryan Toby) - 3:38
2. "Exodus" (Carvin Haggins, Darren Henson, Keith Pelzer) - 4:11
3. "Sometimes I Wonder" (featuring Jill Scott) (Davis, Aja Graydon, Harris, Darius Rucker, Jill Scott) - 4:14
4. "Back to Then" (Harris, Kipper Jones, Rucker, Derek Washington) - 4:58
5. "This Is My World" (Henson, Pelzer, Rucker, Kenna Zemedkun) - 5:05
6. "I'm Glad You're Mine" (Al Green) - 3:05
7. "Butterfly" (Peter Black) - 4:31
8. "Hold On" (Jimmy Cozier, Justin Cozier, S. Phillips, Rucker) - 4:06
9. "Ten Years" (Edward Ferrell, Darren Lighty, Cynthia Loving, Rucker) - 3:56
10. "One More Night" (Jazz Nixon, Rucker) - 4:17
11. "Amazing Grace" (Interlude) (John Newton) - 0:48
12. "Somewhere" (Daniel Johnson, Nixon, Rucker) - 3:41 ♯
13. "Sleeping in My Bed" (featuring Snoop Dogg) (Darrell Allamby, Calvin Broadus, Kenneth Dickerson, Antoinette Roberson, Rucker) - 4:43

♯ - Track 12, "Somewhere" (13:18 long on the CD mix), contains a piano version of "Ten Years" as a hidden track

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