Hootie: "I Only Wanna Be With" Mickey

Darius Rucker went from hanging out with Goofy to hanging out with Mickey Mouse earlier this week.There's the country-music superstar, formerly the front man of Hootie and the Blowfish, riding shotgun on the "Magic Carpets of Alladin" at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The folks at WDW snapped the picture.

Last year's Country Music Association New Artist of the Year was visiting Mickey & Co. with his three kids and one of their friends on Tuesday.

That visit came almost five months after I snapped this Goofy-looking with Darius after he played Poughkeepsie three days after Thanksgiving. That was a cold, dreary night when Darius was good enough to pose for pics and sign autographs outside the Mid-Hudson Civic Center following his concert. He was a good sport, to say the least, accommodating his fans.

From the looks of his enjoyable ride in Adventureland, it's nice to see Darius was able to escape to the warmth of the Magic Kingdom!