Looking For Lucky

Performer: Hootie & the Blowfish
Engineer: Mark Dearnley
Producer: Don Gehman
Distributor: Bayside Record Dist.

Notes: Hootie & the Blowfish: Darius Rucker (vocals, guitar); Mark Bryan (guitar, lap steel guitar, mandolin, background vocals); Jim Sonefeld (piano, drums, percussion, background vocals); Dean Felber (bass guitar, background vocals). Additional personnel: John Cowan (vocals); Nick Brophy (guitars, programming); Ryan Newell (slide guitar); Sam Bush (fiddle); John Hobbs (piano, organ, Mellotron); Steve Nathan (organ); Herb Pedersen, Matraca Berg (background vocals). Hootie & the Blowfish emerged in the mid-1990s as the people's band, purveying an amiable brand of all-American roots rock full of optimism and devoid of irony. Naturally, in the process, they rose to the top of most hipster rock critics' hate lists, but endeared themselves to millions of listeners nevertheless. Some 10 years after their peak of popularity, LOOKING FOR LUCKY found them still defying their detractors by relentlessly pursuing their sun-dappled musical vision. Though by this time the band was recording for an indie label, neither their wide-screen production style (John Mellencamp producer Don Gehman is behind the board) nor their open-hearted approach had diminished one iota. Though social and political strife do occasionally rear their heads in the lyrics, the overwhelming feeling on LOOKING FOR LUCKY is one of perserverance and positivity, bolstered by layers of jangling guitar, chiming mandolin, and, of course, Darius Rucker's unmistakable, mountain-sized voice.

Hootie & the Blowfish burst out of the grass-roots southern rock scene in the mid-1990s, but their panoramic, All-American pop-rock sound was more influenced by John Mellencamp than by Lynyrd Skynyrd. The band's distinguishing feature was the robust, booming voice of Darius Rucker (no, he wasn't "Hootie"), and their sunny, straightforward sound connected in a big way with audiences weary of grunge bleakness.

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