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Recorded
  
1994

Artist
  
Hootie & the Blowfish

Producer
  
Don Gehman

Length
  
43:04

Release date
  
5 July 1994

Genres
  
Rock music, Roots rock

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Released
  
July 5, 1994 (1994-07-05)

Studio
  
NRG Recording Studios, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

Cracked Rear View (1994)
  
Fairweather Johnson (1996)

Label
  
BMG Direct Marketing, Inc.

Similar
  
Hootie & the Blowfish albums, Rock music albums

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Cracked Rear View is the debut studio album by Hootie & the Blowfish, released on July 5, 1994 by Atlantic Records. The album became extremely popular and remains one of the best-selling albums in history.

Contents

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Recording

Don Gehman was chosen by A&R man Tim Sommer as a producer because of his previous work with John Mellencamp and R.E.M..

Reception

Cracked Rear View is Hootie & the Blowfish's most successful album. It was the highest-selling album of 1995, with 10.5 million shipments that year alone, eventually shipping 16 million copies to retailers by March 31, 1999. It is the joint 16th-best-selling album of all time in the United States. Cracked Rear View reached number one on the Billboard 200 five times over the course of 1995. The album also reached number one in Canada and New Zealand. Three million copies were sold through the Columbia House mail-order system.

Critical reviews of Cracked Rear View were mostly positive. The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave it four and a half stars out of five, and said that it was "the success story of 1994/1995." He also said, "Although Hootie & the Blowfish aren't innovative, they deliver the goods, turning out an album of solid, rootsy folk-rock songs that have simple, powerful hooks."

Track listing

All songs written by Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, Darius Rucker and Jim "Soni" Sonefeld.

  1. "Hannah Jane" – 3:33
  2. "Hold My Hand" – 4:15
  3. "Let Her Cry" – 5:08
  4. "Only Wanna Be with You" – 3:46
  5. "Running from an Angel" – 3:37
  6. "I'm Goin' Home" – 4:11
  7. "Drowning" – 5:01
  8. "Time" – 4:53
  9. "Look Away" – 2:38
  10. "Not Even the Trees" – 4:37
  11. "Goodbye" – 4:05
Includes hidden track "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (Traditional) – 0:54

In 2001, the album was re-released on DVD-Audio with the disc featuring a discography, photo gallery, and video of a live performance of "Drowning".

Personnel

Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Mark Bryan – mandolin on "Only Wanna Be with You", piano on "Not Even the Trees", electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocal percussion
  • Dean Felber – piano on "Only Wanna Be with You", bass guitar, clavinet, vocals
  • Darius Rucker – vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion
  • Jim "Soni" Sonefeld – glasses on "Not Even the Trees", drums, percussion, vocals, piano
    • Additional musicians
  • David Crosby – background vocals on "Hold My Hand"
  • Lili Haydn – violin on "Look Away" and "Running from an Angel"
  • John Nau – piano on "I'm Goin' Home", Hammond organ
    • Production
  • Jean Cronin – art director
  • Don Gehman – producer, engineer, mixing
  • Michael McLaughlin – photography
  • Wade Norton – assistant engineer
  • Gena Rankin – production coordinator
  • Eddy Schreyer – mastering
  • Tim Sommer – artists and repertoire
  • Liz Sroka – assistant mixing

    • Charts

    Album
    End of decade charts

    Songs

    1Hannah Jane3:34
    2Hold My Hand4:16
    3Let Her Cry5:06

    References

    Cracked Rear View Wikipedia
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