Hootie & The Blowfish
might have been lighter in Britain, but there was no doubting the Stateside clout of Hootie & The Blowfish when they broke big with the optimistic alt. rock of 1994’s . The South Carolina band have been on hiatus since 2008, when frontman Darius Rucker ducked out to make a string of well-received country records. But on, their sunny-side-up jangle-rock and Rucker’s baritone croon harks back to a gentler time.
