Hootie & the Blowfish

Hootie & the Blowfish is an American rock band that was formed in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1986. The band's lineup for most of its existence has been the quartet of Darius Rucker, Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, and Jim Sonefeld. The band went on hiatus in 2008 until they announced plans for a full reunion tour in 2019 and released their first new studio album in fourteen years, Imperfect Circle.

Hootie & the Blowfish
The band in 1998, pictured left to right: Sonefeld (behind drum kit), Felber, Rucker, and Bryan.
Background information
Origin	Columbia, South Carolina, United States
Genres	Roots rock pop rock pop alternative rock jangle pop folk rock country
Years active	1986–2008 2018–present
Labels	Atlantic Sneaky Long Vanguard UMG Nashville
Website	hootie.com
Members	Darius Rucker Mark Bryan Dean Felber Jim Sonefeld
Past members	Brantley Smith

As of 2019, the band had charted sixteen singles on various Billboard singles charts and recorded six studio albums. Their debut album, Cracked Rear View (1994), is the 19th-best-selling album of all time in the United States, and was certified platinum 21 times. They have sold over 21 million copies of their albums in the United States. The group was also popular in Canada, having three number-one singles in the country.[1]

History

Early years

Darius Rucker and Mark Bryan met in Columbia, South Carolina, in the mid-1980s when they were both freshmen at the University of South Carolina.[2] Bryan, a guitar player, heard Rucker singing in the showers of the dorm they shared and was impressed by his vocal ability. The pair began playing cover tunes as the Wolf Brothers.

Eventually they collaborated with bassist Dean Felber, a former high school bandmate of Bryan's, and Brantley Smith, a drummer, and soon adopted the name Hootie & the Blowfish in 1986. The name is a conjunction of the nicknames of two of their college friends.[3] The band is routinely featured in articles and polls about badly-named bands.[4][5] Rucker is often mistaken as being the "Hootie" in the band's name.[6] Smith left the group after finishing college to pursue music ministry, but he has made scattered guest appearances with the band (he played cello on their MTV Unplugged performance in 1996, and played drums at Gruene Hall in Gruene, Texas, on June 27, 2008). Smith was replaced by Jim "Soni" Sonefeld. The band's lineup has remained the same ever since.

The band independently released two cassette demo EPs in 1991 and 1992. In 1993, they pressed 50,000 copies of a self-released EP, Kootchypop. They were signed to Atlantic Records in August 1993, after being discovered by Atlantic A&R representative Tim Sommer, a former music journalist and member of the art rock band Hugo Largo.[7] Sommer recalled that other record labels were uninterested in signing Hootie & The Blowfish because their sound was radically different from the grunge music that was popular at the time.[7]

1994–1995: Cracked Rear View and mainstream success

Their mainstream debut album was Cracked Rear View (1994). Released in July 1994, the album's popularity grew after its release, becoming the best-selling album of 1995, and was one of the fastest-selling debut albums of all time. The album, which was certified platinum in the United States in January 1995 and incrementally rose to 12x platinum by January 1996 and 16x platinum by March 1999. In May 2019, the certifications level was updated from 16x platinum to 21x platinum.

The album featured four hits, "Hold My Hand" (U.S. No. 10), "Let Her Cry" (U.S. No. 9), "Only Wanna Be with You" (U.S. No. 6), and "Time" (U.S. No. 14).[8] The album's last single, "Drowning", was not as successful as its predecessors, peaking only on the Mainstream Rock chart. In 1995, Hootie & the Blowfish and Bob Dylan reached an out-of-court settlement for the group's unauthorized use of Dylan's lyrics in their song "Only Wanna Be with You".[9] Miami Dolphins' Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino appeared in the band's video for the song "Only Wanna Be with You", along with several other athletes.[10]

1996–1997: Fairweather Johnson and promotional singles

The band won the "Best New Artist" award at the 1996 Grammy Awards. Hootie & the Blowfish appeared on MTV Unplugged on the eve of the release of their second album, Fairweather Johnson (1996). It contained the hit single "Old Man and Me" (U.S. No. 13), and sold four million copies in the United States. Hootie & the Blowfish has since released three more studio albums: Musical Chairs, Hootie & the Blowfish and Looking for Lucky. They also released a B-sides and rarities compilation titled Scattered, Smothered and Covered (2000). This album is named in tribute of Waffle House, a popular Southern chain of all-night diners. Specifically, the title refers to an order of hash browns scattered on the grill, smothered with diced onions and covered with melted cheese.[11]

In 1995, Hootie & the Blowfish contributed the song "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do" to the Encomium tribute album to Led Zeppelin. Their cover of Canadian group 54-40's "I Go Blind", released on the soundtrack to the television series Friends in 1995, did not appear on Cracked Rear View or Fairweather Johnson, but became a hit on radio in 1996 after three singles from Fairweather Johnson had been released. Both "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do" and "I Go Blind" were later released on the compilation Scattered, Smothered and Covered.

1998–2008: Later years

The band performing for North Carolina Army National Guard (NCARNG) Soldiers and their family members during the NCARNG Welcome Home Celebration Day at the RBC Center, Raleigh, N.C., on June 26, 2005

In 1998, they performed on Frank Wildhorn's concept album of the musical The Civil War.[12] The group covered the 1968 Orpheus hit "Can't Find the Time" for the soundtrack of the Jim Carrey movie Me, Myself & Irene (2000). Orpheus creator and the song's writer Bruce Arnold traded verses with Darius on several occasions, when the band played live on the West Coast. The band had an extensive touring schedule, including an annual New Year's Eve show at Silverton Las Vegas (formerly known as Boomtown Las Vegas) in Enterprise, Nevada. In 2008, the band started releasing their concerts as downloads through trueAnthem.[13] In 2009, Hootie & the Blowfish performed live in a ballet which chronicled their rise and success in the 1990s.[14]

2008–2018: Hiatus and solo work

In 2008, Rucker announced in an AOL Sessions interview that Hootie & the Blowfish would be going on hiatus so Rucker could pursue his solo career as a country music performer. Although the band will no longer be recording or touring, Rucker confirmed that they will still perform their scheduled charity concerts, stating, "We have four charity gigs every year and we will still do them, but we will not do a record or tour."[15] Rucker also said that the split will last "for five or six years, or until I record three or four country albums". He later amended his statement, saying, "To be honest with you, we're not even split up right now, and we're not really thinking about splitting up."[16]

Rucker has recorded a solo album, Learn to Live, for Capitol Records. It includes the singles "Don't Think I Don't Think About It", "It Won't Be Like This for Long", "Alright", all three of which have reached #1 on the U.S. Hot Country Songs chart, and "History in the Making", which peaked at #3 on the U.S. Hot Country Songs chart. Rucker's second solo album Charleston, SC 1966 was released October 2010. A third solo album, True Believers, was released May 2013. That album included Rucker's cover version of the standard "Wagon Wheel" which hit #1 on the US Hot Country singles chart and which was also a massive crossover pop hit. The Christmas-themed Home for the Holidays followed in 2014; and a fourth solo album, Southern Style, came out March 2015.

The band reunited for a one-time performance on the Late Show with David Letterman in the run-up to Letterman's retirement from the show in May 2015. That same year, in August, Darius Rucker said on The Today Show that the band members were working on new songs and would record a new album when they had enough material.[17] The band got together on occasion during their decade-long hiatus to play live shows, usually for charity, but they made no announcements regarding future albums or tours until December 2018.

In 2015, the Irish band Music for Dead Birds released a song titled 'Hooty and the Blowfish', a slight misspelling of the group's name.[18]

2019: New music and tour

On December 3, 2018, the band announced the 44-city Group Therapy Tour with Barenaked Ladies in 2019 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the release of Cracked Rear View. The tour began on May 30, 2019 in Virginia Beach and concluded on September 13 in their hometown of Columbia, South Carolina. They also signed a new record deal with UMG Nashville."[19][20] Their sixth studio album Imperfect Circle was released on November 1, 2019.[21]

Record label

In 1996, Hootie & the Blowfish started their own record label, Breaking Records, as a subsidiary of Atlantic. They had planned to focus on signing local Carolina acts. Edwin McCain and Cravin' Melon were associated with the label at one point, but did not release any material on it. The Meat Puppets, Jump, Little Children, Treadmill Trackstar and Treehouse released one album each on Breaking Records. The label folded in 2000.

Charity work

Hootie & the Blowfish have become known for their charity work. The entire band and crew traveled to New Orleans for five days of building houses in Musicians' Village, on October 16–20, 2006.[22] The band's members are avid golfers, and have sponsored the annual spring Monday After the Masters Celebrity Pro-Am Golf Tournament, benefiting local charities, since 1995.[23]

Hootie & the Blowfish toured through the Middle East and Europe supporting American troops during a USO tour. On December 5, 1998, Darius Rucker broke into an a cappella solo of the US National Anthem during the lowering of colors on board USS Enterprise (CVN-65), which was docked in Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates. The band then played an extended concert for crew members of the aircraft carrier.[24]

From 2005 to 2009, Hootie & the Blowfish performed at the Animal Mission's 'Party Animals' silent auction and concert to benefit the shelter animals in Columbia, South Carolina. Each year the event raised over $100,000 and allowed the organization to provide a free spay/neuter program for the Southern community's pets. On October 18, 2008, Hootie & the Blowfish reunited to do a show at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey.

The band is a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism and has worked with them on awareness campaigns like TV PSAs.[25]

Musical style

Contrasting with the sound of their grunge contemporaries, the band's music was described as "a mainstream pop variation of blues-rock" with "equal parts of jam band grooves and MOR pop."[26][27] The band's sound was also described as heartland rock,[28] roots rock[29] and jangle pop.[30]

Band members

Hootie and the Blowfish with Peter Holsapple (center, playing mandolin) in 2004

Current members

• Darius Rucker – lead vocals, rhythm guitar (1986–2008, 2018–present)
• Mark Bryan – lead guitar, backing vocals, piano (1986–2008, 2018–present)
• Dean Felber – bass guitar, backing vocals, piano (1986–2008, 2018–present)
• Jim Sonefeld – drums, percussion, backing vocals, rhythm guitar (1989–2008, 2018–present)

Current touring musicians

• Gary Greene – percussion, drums, rhythm guitar, piano, banjo (1995–2000, 2001–2008, 2019–present)
• Peter Holsapple – keyboards, mandolin, guitar, lap steel guitar, backing vocals (1995–1998, 2003–2008, 2019–present)
• Garry Murray – guitar, banjo, fiddle (2019–present)

Former members

• Brantley Smith – drums (1986–1989)

Former touring musicians

• John Nau – keyboards, mandolin, rhythm guitar, harmonica (1994–1998, studio and occasional fill-in only; 1998–2003, studio artist and touring musician)
• Philip "Fish" Fisher – percussion, drums (2000–2001)

Discography

Studio albums

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions										Certifications (sales threshold)
		US [31]	US Indie [32]	AUS [33]	CAN [34]	GER [35]	NL [36]	NZ [37]	SWE [38]	SWI [39]	UK [40]
1994	Cracked Rear View Release date: July 5, 1994 Label: Atlantic	1	—	7	1	45	—	1	—	—	12	US: 2× Diamond (21× Platinum)[41] UK: Gold[42] CAN: Diamond[43] AUS: 2× Platinum[44]
1996	Fairweather Johnson Release date: April 23, 1996 Label: Atlantic	1	—	12	6	41	37	6	36	37	9	US: 3× Platinum[41] UK: Silver[42]
1998	Musical Chairs Release date: September 15, 1998 Label: Atlantic	4	—	54	27	72	—	20	—	—	15	US: Platinum[41]
2000	Scattered, Smothered and Covered Release date: October 24, 2000 Label: Atlantic	71	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2003	Hootie & the Blowfish Release date: March 4, 2003 Label: Atlantic	46	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	161
2005	Looking for Lucky Release date: August 9, 2005 Label: Vanguard	47	4	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2019	Imperfect Circle Release date: November 1, 2019 Label: Capitol Nashville	26	—	—[upper-alpha 1]	—	—	—	—	—	—	100
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Extended plays

• Kootchypop (1993)

Compilation albums

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US [2]	US Indie [32]
2000	Scattered, Smothered and Covered Release date: October 24, 2000 Label: Atlantic Records	71	—
2004	The Best of Hootie & the Blowfish: 1993–2003 Release date: March 2, 2004 Label: Atlantic/Rhino Records	62	—
2006	Live in Charleston Release date: August 8, 2006 Label: Vanguard Records	—	47
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions										Album
		US [2]	US Rock [46]	US AC [47]	US Adult [48]	US Pop [49]	AUS [33]	CAN [1]	GER [50]	NZ [51]	UK [40]
1994	"Hold My Hand"	10	4	6	25	2	70	36	—	37	50	Cracked Rear View
	"Let Her Cry"	9	9	6	16	2	4	2	78	19	75
1995	"Only Wanna Be with You"	6	2	3	2	1	40	1	65	17	87
	"Time"	14	26	4	1	5	—	1	—	35	—
	"Drowning"	—	21	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1996	"Old Man & Me (When I Get to Heaven)"	13	6	18	4	5	60	1	75	41	57	Fairweather Johnson
	"Tucker's Town"	38	29	24	12	15	—	2	—	—	79
	"Sad Caper"	—[upper-alpha 2]	—	—	26	33	—	—	—	—	—
1998	"I Will Wait"	—[upper-alpha 3]	—	28	3	16	—	7	—	—	57	Musical Chairs
1999	"Only Lonely"	—	—	25	29	—	—	—	—	—	169
2003	"Innocence"	—	—	25	24	—	—	—	—	—	—	Hootie & the Blowfish
	"Goodbye Girl"	—	—	24	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	The Best of Hootie & the Blowfish
2005	"One Love"	—	—	5	20	—	—	—	—	—	—	Looking for Lucky
2006	"Get Out of My Mind"	—	—	17	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2019	"Hold On"[53]	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Imperfect Circle
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Other singles

Promotional singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions				Album
		US Rock [46]	US AC [47]	US Adult [48]	CAN [54]
1995	"I Go Blind"	—	22	2	13	Friends Original TV Soundtrack
	"Hey, Hey, What Can I Do"	15	—	—	—	Encomium: a Tribute to Led Zeppelin
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Music videos

Year	Video	Director
1994	"Hold My Hand"	Adolfo Doring
	"Let Her Cry"
1995	"Only Wanna Be With You"	Frank Sacramento
	"Time"
1996	"Old Man and Me (When I Get to Heaven)"	Dan Winters
	"Tucker's Town"	Greg Masuak
1998	"I Will Wait"	Nigel Dick

Awards and nominations

American Music Award

The American Music Award is an annual American music awards show.

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1996	Hootie & the Blowfish	Artist of the Year	Nominated
		Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group	Nominated
		Favorite Pop/Rock New Artist	Won
		Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist	Nominated
	Cracked Rear View	Favorite Pop/Rock Album	Nominated
1997	Hootie & the Blowfish	Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group	Won

Grammy Award

The Grammy Award is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the mainly English-language music industry.

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1996	Hootie & the Blowfish	Best New Artist	Won
	"Let Her Cry"	Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals	Won

MTV Video Music Award

The MTV Video Music Award is an award presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the music video medium.

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
1995	"Hold My Hand"	Best New Artist	Won
		Viewer's Choice Award	Nominated
1996	"Only Wanna Be with You"	Best Group Video	Nominated

See also

• Live in the X Lounge II – Hootie & the Blowfish released live performances of their songs "Hold My Hand" and "Desert Mountain Showdown" in 1999 to this charity album which was released to benefit UCP of Greater Birmingham.
• List of best-selling music artists

Notes

1. Imperfect Circle did not enter the ARIA Albums Chart, but peaked at number 24 on the ARIA Digital Album Chart.[45]
2. "Sad Caper" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 74 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart.[52]
3. "I Will Wait" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 18 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart.[52]

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External links

• Official website
• Hootie Golf site
• Hootie & the Blowfish at Curlie