Cracked Rear View

Cracked Rear View
Studio album by Hootie & the Blowfish
Released	July 5, 1994
Recorded	1994, North Hollywood, United States
Genre	Rock
Length	43:04
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Gloria Gabriel and Don Gehman
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Hootie & the Blowfish chronology
Kootchypop (1993) Cracked Rear View (1994) Fairweather Johnson (1996)

Cracked Rear View is the major-label debut album by Hootie & the Blowfish, released on July 5, 1994. 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 tied with several albums, all certified 16× platinum, for the fifteenth best selling album of all time in the United States^[1].

Track listing

All songs written by Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, Darius Rucker, Jim Sonefield.

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)

Song notes

Let Her Cry

"Let Her Cry" was the second single from the album—after "Hold My Hand"—and peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Only Wanna Be with You

"Only Wanna Be with You" was the next hit single released from the album, reaching #6 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Drowning

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"Drowning" deals with racism in America and makes references to an ongoing controversy in Hootie & the Blowfish's home state of South Carolina with the line "Why is there a rebel flag hanging from the state house walls?"

A later verse of the song alludes to the Nanci Griffith song "It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go":

Nanci singing it's a hard life wherever you go

About some fat racist living in Chicago

Trying to teach his kids to hate everyone

Well tell me why is that something you wanna teach your son?

Personnel

Hootie & the Blowfish

• Mark Bryan – guitar
• Dean Felber – piano, bass guitar, vocals, clavinet
• Darius Rucker – acoustic guitar, percussion, vocals
• Jim Sonefeld – percussion, piano, drums, vocals, glasses

Additional personnel

• David Crosby – background vocals on "Hold My Hand"
• Lili Haydn – viola
• John Nau – piano, Hammond organ

Production

• Producers: Gloria Gabriel, Don Gehman
• Engineer: Don Gehman
• Assistant engineer: Wade Norton
• Mixing: Don Gehman
• Mixing assistant: Liz Sroka
• Mastering: Eddy Schreyer
• Production coordination: Gena Maria Rankin
• Art direction: Jean Cronin
• Photography: Mike McLaughlin

Charts

Album

Billboard (North America)

Singles

Billboard (North America)

Awards

See also

• List of best-selling albums worldwide
• List of best-selling albums in the United States

Notes