Fairweather Johnson
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| Studio album by Hootie & the Blowfish | ||||
| Released | April 23, 1996 | |||
| Recorded | Late 1995 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock, roots rock, alternative rock | |||
| Length | 49:20 | |||
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Atlantic 82886-2 |
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| Producer | Don Gehman | |||
| Hootie & the Blowfish chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Fairweather Johnson | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| Entertainment Weekly | B |
| Los Angeles Times |  |
| Robert Christgau |  |
| Rolling Stone | |
Fairweather Johnson is the second studio album by the band Hootie & the Blowfish, released on April 23, 1996. Three songs from the album were released as singles: "Old Man & Me", "Tucker's Town", and "Sad Caper". The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 in May 1996. It has sold 2,361,000 copies in the US as of May 2012. The album was included in Pitchfork Media's 2010 list of "ten career-killing albums" of the 1990s.Stylus Magazine shared sentiments, including it in their "Non-Definitive Guide to the Follow-Up", saying "really, everyone saw this one coming a mile off. Who was really gonna care about another Hootie album?".
All songs written by Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, Darius Rucker and Jim "Soni" Sonefeld.
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