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Hootie & The Blowfish

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About the name: "Hootie" was the nickname of a guy named Ervin Harris, and "Blowfish" was what they called Donald Feaster. Both were friends of Darius Rucker and sang in the Carolina Alive choir with him.

Rucker and Bryan formed the band, originally called The Wolf Brothers, when they met at the University of South Carolina, where Rucker studied journalism.

Hootie & The Blowfish built a following in the early '90 playing lots of small venues in the South Carolina area. They made enough money at shows to finance an EP called Kootchypop, which they sold in 1993. A scout for Atlantic Records named Tim Sommer came to see them perform two shows later that year, and signed them on Halloween, 1993. Their first album, Cracked Rear View, was released on July 5, 1994 and went on to become the best selling album in the history of Atlantic Records.

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