Sometimes, a serendipitous moment happens while writing a song that in hindsight seems like it was just meant to be. Such is the case was with Scotty McCreery’s new single “Bottle Rockets,” which ...

Scotty McCreery’s "Bottle Rockets," featuring Hootie & the Blowfish, debuts at No. 30 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart and samples the band’s 1994 hit. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 04: ...

"It's more about trying to give songs life. And I've spent my adult life doing just that," he tells PEOPLE The guitarist plays a hometown show at The Atlantis in Washington, DC on Friday Hootie & the ...

When Hootie & the Blowfish released their debut “Hold My Hand” single in the summer of 1994, Scotty McCreery was a couple of months away from his first birthday. So it seems unlikely that the song, ...

COLUMBIA — Four kids who met at the University of South Carolina and honed their song-writing skills in messy apartments and on cramped bar stages in Columbia created one of the soundtracks of the ...

Celebrating the holidays requires a soundtrack, and a new holiday EP from a member of iconic South Carolina rock band Hootie & the Blowfish aims to make the Christmas season even brighter. Hootie & ...

In a 2013 interview with Rolling Stone, Darius Rucker divulged just how much Bob Dylan influenced his music, and like the majority of Dylan fans, one of Rucker’s favorite albums is Bob Dylan’s, Blood ...

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 nasty ...

Hootie and the Blowfish burst onto the 90s' music scene with their laidback and catchy tunes. Still, behind the distinctive sound of Darius Rucker's voice the band's unusual name has long been a ...

It was the Year of Hootie: With grunge tailing off, country getting huge and top 40 starting to drift to a mellower and rootsier middle, an unassuming group of good-time frat-rockers became the ...

Hootie singing “Purple Rain,” was definitely not on my Bingo card for last weekend’s Darius Rucker show at the Santa Barbara Bowl! Honestly, my expectations for the show were pretty low. But Rucker — ...

Hootie & the Blowfish aren’t on tour this summer — and that’s just fine with the band’s lead guitarist Mark Bryan. "There's never been a time where I thought I wouldn't be making music," says Bryan, ...