How the band landed on Hootie & The Blowfish is quite funny. In 1994, after the band released their first studio album, Cracked Read View, one newspaper was preoccupied with the word “Hootie.” ...

For a generation of people, Hootie & the Blowfish exists mostly as a funny band name to use for jokes, the Electric Boogaloo of musical groups. Aside from reuniting on The Late Show with David ...

seemed super into it and happy to be there and were both so personable and funny. Barenaked Ladies also just released an album last year, “Fake Nudes,” and Hootie & The Blowfish have a new one ...

Funny thing is, the band never planned on sticking ... One guy was nicknamed the Blowfish, and one guy was nicknamed Hootie. So he said to Mark, ‘How about we just name it Hootie & the Blowfish ...

“It’s funny, the parallels in our lives and careers ... In a drunken moment, Rucker christened them Hootie and the Blowfish, after one classmate who had bug eyes and another with puffy ...

Let him cry. Darius Rucker didn’t let an embarrassing fall with his alternative band Hootie & the Blowfish get him down. The rocker and country singer, 58, joked about his age after taking a ...

It’s funny the way things work out ... in 1972 goes on to become a country No. 1 for the dude from Hootie and the Blowfish 41 years after the fact. Armchair pop-music historians among you ...

“It was funny because I was going to a friend’s ... He writes about life on the road with Hootie & the Blowfish and drug use he said got so intense he was surprised he made it out alive.