Hootie & The Blowfish - 1996-08-07 – Camden NJ (SBD)

Hootie & The Blowfish

1996-08-07

E Center

Camden, NJ

Soundboard Recording

192 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Old Man & Me

02. She Crawls Away

03. I Go Blind

04. Look Away

05. The Earth Stopped Cold At Dawn

06. Hannah Jane

07. Sad Caper

08. Tuckers Town

09. Running From An Angel

10. Let It Breathe

11. Let Her Cry

12. Honeyscrew

13. Only Wanna Be With You

14. Drowning

15. Be The One

16. Time

Encores:

17. I'm Goin' Home

18. Peace Love & Understanding

19. Hold My Hand

20. Tootie

21. Long Train Runnin'

Hootie & The Blowfish - 1996-08-07 – Camden NJ (SBD)

Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, and Mark Bryan all met as freshmen at the University of South Carolina in 1986. Like probably thousands of college kids across the country, they formed a band, dreaming but probably never expecting, to find fame and fortune. Eight years later in 1994,, when Hootie and the Blowfish released the album Cracked Rear View, could anyone have imagined, including the band, that the album would sell over 16 million copies? That makes it the 15th best selling album in history! Yes, I agree it's almost sacrilegious that Hootie's debut outsold such albums as Abbey Road, Born In The USA, Led Zeppelin II and Dark Side Of The Moon, just to name a few. No one is going to confuse Daruis and his compatriots with Lennon & McCartney when it comes to song writing. But, if everyone can put aside the Hootie backlash just for a few seconds (it's amazing how you can't find anyone who admits they bought the album even though it sold 16 million copies!), folks might recall why they were hooked in the first place. Namely, these guys wrote a host of catchy tunes, Darius has a unique voice, and they sound like the best bar band you ever heard.. While I never did see Hootie when they were riding high in the mid 1990’s, I finally caught them live on August 7, 2008, just 7 years ago today. They played the Morristown Community Theater, a small 1000 seat venue in Morris County NJ, which really is an excellent place to see a concert ever since they refurbished the place. Hootie played all the tunes you’d expect, plus a very cool version of Led Zep’s Hey Hey What Can I Do. The Morristown show may be among the last the band ever played together, as Darius has now embarked on quite a successful solo career as a country western singer. While I couldn’t find a bootleg of the show I attended, I did find a soundboard from August 7, 1996, 18 years ago today, from Camden NJ, when the band dominated the airwaves and record sales.