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The "Fairweather Johnson" President

The "Fairweather Johnson" President

What a forgotten Hootie and the Blowfish album and POTUS have in common.

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Damian Penny
Jun 23, 2022
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In his excellent Trainwreckords series, about albums that destroyed or badly damaged careers, Todd in the Shadows examined the failure of Fairweather Johnson, the little-remembered follow-up to Hootie and the Blowfish’s 1994 mega-blockbuster Cracked Rear View. After a strong first week, it quickly slipped down the charts, sold a fraction of its predecessor and produced no major hit singles.

Todd makes an interesting observation about the rapid rise and fall of Hootie and the Blowfish: they were the band for everybody, and therefore the band for nobody.

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