Hootie And The Blowfish Biography

For a short time Hootie & the Blowfish was the most popular band in America. Grunge music ruled the airwaves during the mid-'90s but Hootie played a mainstream pop variation of blues-rock and their easy-going sound netted them a string of Top 40 hits. Formed at the University of South Carolina the group featured lead vocalist/guitarist Darius Rucker Mark Bryan Dean Felber and Jim Soni Sonefeld and the band's name referred to two mutual friends (not Rucker and the group itself). Cracked Rear View the quartet's first album was released in the fall of 1994 and became enormously successful due in part to the album's first single Hold My Hand. The song had worked its way into the Top Ten by the beginning of 1995 propelling the album to number one and paving the way for three additional Top 20 singles: Let Her Cry Only Wanna Be With You and Time.
Cracked Rear View became the most popular album of 1995. By the time Hootie & the Blowfish returned to the scene with a second album Fairweather Johnson in early 1996 the debut had sold 13 million copies in America alone. Fairweather Johnson didn't replicate that success. It entered the charts at No. 1 and sold 2 million copies within its first four months of release but it didn't produce any singles on the level of Hold My Hand or Let Her Cry. Musical Chairs followed in 1998 and experienced even less success and the bandmates decided to take a short break after its release.

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