Album Review: Hootie & the Blowfish - cracked rear view (25th Anniversary)
When Hootie & the Blowfish first blew up, I have to admit that I wasn't a big fan. "Hold My Hand" was the big single, and I just wasn't that impressed with the song. But when I heard "Let Her Cry", I knew that this band was something special. The music was somewhere in-between bluegrass, and rock, and I just loved it. I got the full album for my birthday from my friend Adam that year, and I was hooked from the first notes of "Hannah Jane", right through the final a-capella track of "Motherless Child". I could tell then that I was going to be a lifelong fan, and I wasn't alone in thinking that, because the album went on to be the ninth highest selling album of all time. Nearly every song on the disc was a bona fide hit. And the songs that weren't hits were all every bit as good as the tracks that were. As the years unfolded, and the band released four more albums, all albums that I love to this day, "cracked rear view...