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May 10, 1995

Cover Story: Southern Comfort

Hootie and the Blowfish take their deep-fried jams and sweet love songs to the top of the charts

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Looking for Lucky

On their sixth album, a decade after Hootiemania gripped the nation, Darius Rucker and company are still playing middle-of-the-road pop songs about girls and good times. The only nod to the present is a couple of songs that reference Bush's fuckup in Iraq. "You can try and be a hero/ But people keep...

2005 RS: 2.5of 5 Stars

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At press time, 16 million Americans had purchased a copy of Hootie & the Blowfish's Cracked Rear View. However much music snobs may shake their heads in disbelief, the major-label debut by these four South Carolinians touched a lot of people, many of whom probably didn't listen to much pop music or hadn't in a long time. The reason? Hootie's brand of classic-flavor Middle American guitar rock was...

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