Country Star Scotty McCreery Explains How Collab With Iconic ’90s Rock Band Came to Be

Scotty McCreeryis still buzzing over his recent collaboration with Hootie & the Blowfish.

Fresh off the release of the new duet, “Bottle Rockets,” McCreery took to social media to explain to his followers how the duet with the Darius Rucker-led rock band came to be.

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“I am so fired up about ‘Bottle Rockets,'” McCreery, 31, said in the new Instagram clip posted Wednesday, May 21, where he noted that getting to work with the iconic rockers still “feels like a dream.”

The country crooner went on to explain, “We wrote this song in the mountains of North Carolina, and I knew I loved it that day.”

“We were sitting there around the couch talking about old summers and reminiscing on good times and the soundtracks of those summers, and I started talking about Hootie & the Blowfish,” McCreery recalled.

The American Idol winner said his co-writer Frank Rogers then began playing the iconic Hootie song “Hold My Hand” with the new song “Bottle Rockets”—and “it just felt natural.”

“It felt like that’s how the song was supposed to be,” Mcreery added.

Even though the “Five More Minutes” singer has been “friends” with Rucker for “a while now,” McCreery was admittedly still “nervous” to reach out to the band about coming on the song—but fortunately, Rucker and the rest of the guys in the band instantly “loved” the track.

“I think that’s one of my favorite things about the song,” McCreery went on to say. “It’s not a sample of ‘Hold My Hand.’ Hootie & the Blowfish, all the guys went back in there in the studio and re-recorded their parts for ‘Bottle Rockets’ to make it happen.”

“I can’t tell you how much that meant to me, and I think it’s made the song that much better,” McCreery further gushed.

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