I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.

com reported that Rucker is currently working on a third country album with recording set to begin January 2012 followed by the release of the album early in the year. On October 12 2012 Rucker told Broadway's Electric Barnyard that his album would also be titled True Believers and would be out in January 2013. "
Rucker appeared on a pop-star edition of the quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in July 2001.

Six years later Rucker signed to Capitol Records Nashville as a country music artist releasing the album Learn to Live that year. Rucker co-wrote the majority of the band's songs with the other three members.