Artist
Hootie & The Blowfish is an alternative rock artist from Columbia, USA formed in 1989. 24 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Alternative Rock · Columbia, USA · Best alternative rock albums
Most popular
Cracked Rear View
1994
Fairweather Johnson
1996
Hootie & the Blowfish
2003
Musical Chairs
1998
Imperfect Circle
2019
Looking for Lucky
2005
Fast Times in Hootieville
—
Live: North Charleston Coliseum, South Carolina 30th Aug '95 - Remastered (Live: North Charleston Coliseum, South Carolina 30th Aug '95 - Remastered)
2018
Cracked Rear View - Live (Live: South Carolina 1995)
2018
The Best of Hootie & The Blowfish (1993 - 2003)
2004
The Best of Hootie & the Blowfish (1993 thru 2003)
2004
Scattered, Smothered & Covered
2000
Scattered, Smothered and Covered
2000
Cracked Rear View (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
1994
Bottle Rockets (feat. Hootie & The Blowfish)
Single · 2025
For What It's Worth
Single · 2024
Won't Be Home For Christmas
Single · 2020
Turn It Up
Single · 2019
Hold On
Single · 2019
Rollin'
Single · 2019
Miss California
Single · 2019
Lonely On A Saturday Night
Single · 2019
Talking
Single · 1999
Only Wanna Be With You
Single · 1995
More about Hootie & The Blowfish
Hootie & the Blowfish is an American rock band that was popular in the second half of the 1990s. They were originally formed in 1986 at the University of South Carolina by Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, and Mark Bryan. As of July 2010, the band had charted sixteen singles on various Billboard singles charts and recorded five studio albums; and their 1994 debut album, Cracked Rear View, was the 15th best-selling album of all time in the US, having been certified platinum 16 times. Hootie & the Blowfish formed in 1986. The quartet met when they were freshmen at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Bryan heard Rucker singing in the showers of the dorm they shared and was impressed by his vocal ability. They began playing cover tunes as The Wolf Brothers; eventually they collaborated with Felber, a former high school bandmate of Bryan's, and Jim "Soni" Sonefeld as Hootie & the Blowfish. The name is a conjunction of the nicknames of two of their college friends. Brantley Smith was the original drummer for the band.
He left the group 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). The group independently released two cassette demo EPs in 1991 and 1992. In 1993, they pressed 50,000 copies of a self-released EP, Kootchypop.
