Marcus King has been on a journey of sobriety for the past few years. His 2022 album Young Blood all but imagined him dying young. “I was feeling really paranoid…that the end was inevitable and that it was coming pretty soon,” he told Rolling Stone that year.

The South Carolina singer, songwriter, and guitar-slinger did eventually find his path, however. And on his new album Darling Blue , his first with Marcus King Band since 2018’s Carolina Confessions , he celebrates his even-keeled lifestyle and the woman who helped him remember, as he says, “that life is worth living,” his wife Briley King.

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In a new interview with Rolling Stone ’s Nashville Now podcast, King says that Ozzy Osbourne influenced him as well, particularly the late heavy

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