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| HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH - BIOGRAPHY |
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Cracked Rear View had become a massive success by the fall of 1995, going platinum several times over. By the time the group released their second album, Fairweather Johnson, in the spring of 1996, the debut had sold 13 million copies in the US alone. Fairweather Johnson initially didn't replicate that success. It entered the charts at number one and sold two million copies within its first four months of release, but it didn't produce any hit singles on the level of the debut's "Hold My Hand" or "Let Her Cry." Musical Chairs followed in 1998. |
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Hootie & the Blowfish's mainstream pop variation of blues-rock brought
the band to the top of the charts in 1995. Formed at the University
of South Carolina, the group features lead vocalist/guitarist Darius
Rucker, Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, and Jim "Soni" Sonefeld; the name refers
to two friends of the band, not Rucker and the group itself.