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Hootie & The Blowfish on ‘Cracked Rear View’ at 30: ‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It Since’
Hootie & The Blowfish's Darius Rucker and Mark Bryan reflect on 'Cracked Rear View' at 30 and its lasting success during a tour this summer.
Singer Darius Rucker and guitarist Mark Bryan met while attending the University of South Carolina and began gigging as a cover band called The Wolf Brothers. During the height of the grunge movement, Atlantic Records A&R executive Tim Sommer signed the quartet, which had already built a strong regional following for its jangly, harmony-filled poprock songs and Rucker’s rich baritone. Thirty years later, to mark the anniversary of Cracked Rear View, Hootie & The Blowfish are staging the Summer Camp With Trucks Tour on a bill with Collective Soul and Edwin McCain.
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