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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Left-to-right: Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, and Music/DariusRucker. [[NonIndicativeName Not pictured: The actual people nicknamed "Hootie" and "The Blowfish".]]]]
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4	->''"Well there's nothing I can do\
5	I only wanna be with you\
6	You can call me your fool\
7	I only wanna be with you"''
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9	Hootie & the Blowfish is a rock band from Columbia, UsefulNotes/SouthCarolina founded in 1986 by Music/DariusRucker, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld and Mark Bryan. They broke through in 1994 with the album ''Cracked Rear View'', one of the best-selling albums in the history of American music (it sold over 16 million copies). It also produced four big pop hits in "Hold My Hand", "Let Her Cry", "Only Wanna Be with You" and "Time", and won the band the 1996 Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
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11	Although followup ''Fairweather Johnson'' was also a decent enough seller, it produced only one big hit. Following ''Musical Chairs'', the band went on hiatus (with both Bryan and Rucker releasing solo albums), and then came back with ''Scattered, Smothered and Covered'', a compilation which produced no singles. The band left Creator/AtlanticRecords after a self-titled album in 2003, but came back in 2005 with ''Looking for Lucky'' on Vanguard Records.
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13	Darius Rucker began a rather successful CountryMusic career in 2008, but he continues to tour occasionally with his bandmates, and he performs several Hootie-era songs during his solo concerts. In 2018, after a ten year hiatus, Hootie & The Blowfish announced they had reunited. In 2019, they did a tour with Music/BarenakedLadies and released the album ''Imperfect Circle''.
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15	!!Members:
16	* Music/DariusRucker — lead vocals, guitar
17	* Mark Bryan — guitar
18	* Dean Felber — bass, backing vocals
19	* Jim "Soni" Sonefeld — drums
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21	!!Discography:
22	* ''Kootchypop'' (EP; 1993)
23	* ''Cracked Rear View'' (1994)
24	* ''Fairweather Johnson'' (1996)
25	* ''Musical Chairs'' (1998)
26	* ''Hootie & the Blowfish'' (2003)
27	* ''Looking for Lucky'' (2005)
28	* ''Imperfect Circle'' (2019)
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30	!!"I wanna trope you the best that/The best that I can":
31	* ArtistAndTheBand: A notable subversion, since [[NonIndicativeName no one in the band is named Hootie and the band itself is not called The Blowfish]]. It was named after two college friends who were nicknamed "Hootie" and "The Blowfish".
32	* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: The members met while students at the University of South Carolina.
33	* FellAsleepCrying: Darius after his mother's death, as described in "I'm Going Home".
34	* GenreShift: Darius' successful transition to a country music star. In a band-specific example, ''Imperfect Circle'' draws heavy influence from Darius's country career, almost bordering on country rock.
35	* GratuitousPanning: On "Hold My Hand", the lead guitar is isolated in the left channel.
36	* LongRunnerLineUp: The group was Darius Rucker, Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, and Jim Sonefeld from 1989 to 2008 when they went on hiatus. Before then, Brantley Smith was the drummer, replaced by Sonefeld long before the band started recording. As of their reunion in 2018, it's still the same lineup and they've gone on record saying they only reunited because ''all'' of them wanted to.
37	* NonIndicativeName: The band was named for two friends; one who had an owlish face nicknamed "Hootie", and another with puffy cheeks nicknamed "the Blowfish". As a result, [[IAmNotShazam many people erroneously call Darius Rucker, "Hootie", and the rest of the band, "the Blowfish".]]
38	* PerformanceVideo: The music video for "Time" was a live performance recorded in Charleston, South Carolina.
39	* ProtestSong: "Drowning", in part against the Confederate Flag flying at the SC Statehouse.
40	* RecordProducer: Their first four albums were produced by Don Gehman; according to Tim Sommer, the A&R rep who signed them to Atlantic, Sommer picked Gehman because he produced Music/JohnMellencamp's most successful albums and Music/{{REM}}'s ''Music/LifesRichPageant''.
41	* SelfTitledAlbum: Strangely, their ''last'' album for Atlantic.
42	* ShoutOut:
43	** "Only Wanna Be with You", to Music/BobDylan's [[Music/BloodOnTheTracks "Idiot Wind" and "Tangled Up in Blue"]] (they were eventually forced to give Dylan co-writing credit for quoting directly from "Idiot Wind"). There is also a line referencing the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Miami Dolphins]], Rucker's favorite team.
44	** "Let Her Cry" references Music/{{REM}} frontman Michael Stipe and their song [[Music/{{Document}} "The One I Love"]].
45	* TrueCompanions: Talking about their early days playing Southern bars, many members of the band found themselves unpleasantly surprised at how much racism there still was out there, and often found themselves getting into fights with patrons who were not shy about dropping the N-word around Darius.
46	-->'''Jim Sonefeld:''' Wanna see me [[BerserkButton start swingin'?]] Use that word around me.
47	* {{Yarling}}: This is Darius' preferred singing style.
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49	->''"And if the sun comes up tomorrow\
50	Let her be\

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