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...Treadmill Trackstar. So it's sure to cause a commotion when Hootie--a band that has sold 13 million copies and counting of its debut album, Cracked Rear View--suddenly shows up and starts playing at one of the dozen or so small festival stages. Says drummer Jim ("Soni") Sonefeld: "It's outdoors, there are a lot of drunks, it's our hometown--this has the potential for being really out of control." He says this happily...
...people, particularly in the South, see Hootie entertaining concert audiences with its mix of Southern rock and soulful blues, they have a problem with it. "We were in this bar in South Carolina, and this guy in a traditional Confederate hat comes up between sets," recalls Hootie drummer Jim Sonefeld. "He says, 'Y'all are pretty good for having a nigger as your lead singer.' Both my fists got clenched, and I was about to kill this...
Popularity for Hootie & the Blowfish was a long time coming. The four band members-singer Darius Rucker, guitarist Mark Bryan, bassist Dean Felber and drummer Sonefeld-got together at the University of South Carolina in Columbia in the mid-1980s. Rucker likes to sing after taking a shower and, thanks to his loud voice and the dorm's thin walls, his habit became well known-and, surprisingly, well liked. Says Bryan, who lived down the hall: "I'd hear him and think, 'He's got a really great voice.'" Bryan was learning to play the guitar at the time...