Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. Sexy Trippy All Moods. Drinking Hanging Out In Love. As Farley noted, the music itself was the biggest factor in Hootie's rise: "Cracked Rear View featured 11 strong, tuneful songs, with brawny guitar work, commanding percussion, and Rucker's gruff, charismatic voice, which made it all come together.
You can look at so many bands out there, and they're writing good songs, but they're mad at this or aloof or whatever. If you look at the four of us sitting in a restaurant, you wouldn't say, 'Oh, that's a band. There's no hair show, no flash pots, no video screen, no Bee Girl. They're simply standing up there singing their well-liked songs Without smoke or mirrors, Hootie's solid, unpretentious pop tunes evoke a surprisingly visceral reaction. Some people in the music world seemed to regard their love for YMCA pick-up basketball games or a quick nine holes of golf as unbecoming and decidedly uncool, but the band remained unapologetic.
He added, "it sounds like such bullshit, but we just love to be together. You've seen it: all we do is laugh. Call each other names and laugh. We never leave each other alone. That's how we've stayed together for ten years, and that's why we don't change. Stoked by the music press, a modest backlash against the band developed.
As Mark Jacobson wryly observed in Esquire: "Hootie is magic, pure and simple. Saturday Night Live parodied their fratty following with a sketch imagining a million-man march of polo-shirt-wearing Hootie fans. By the time they stopped recording and touring in the late s, Hootie and the Blowfish were a punchline. Rucker pivoted to a lucrative career in country, and the rest of the guys moved on, reuniting for a few charity shows a year.
When the idea of a comeback tour pegged to the 25th anniversary of Cracked Rear View was first floated, Rucker had his doubts. A year-old Rucker is in the center, in an oversize yellow shirt and a backward baseball cap, surrounded by the rest of the band, who all have goofy grins. The rest of the guys also look grown-up, but also pretty chill. Soon enough, they were playing in bars and frat houses.
In a drunken moment, Rucker christened them Hootie and the Blowfish, after one classmate who had bug eyes and another with puffy cheeks. Hootie and the Blowfish, circa By their senior year, they were so popular that it was too late to change their name.
They spent the next five years playing every club and frat party they could east of the Mississippi — breaking out covers ranging from Kiss to Public Enemy, along with their own songs. Grunge had peaked, and it turned out that listeners were ready for a band that looked at ease, even giddy, onstage.
The song "Wagon Wheel" earned him a win in the best country solo performance category in His most recent effort, 's Southern Style , was another success, lifted up by such songs as the title track and "Homegrown Honey. Rucker married long-time girlfriend Beth Leonard in The pair has two children together. In July , Rucker and Leonard split. He also has a child with a former girlfriend.
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