Fairweather Johnson
| Hootie & the Blowfish
Fairweather Johnson
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 ". -Wikipedia
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Entertainment Weekly
everything now sounds grander and more sweeping, if not in any sense groundbreaking
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Louder than War
Fairweather Johnson represents toil, fight and blood
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All Music
the weakest moments on Fairweather Johnson resonate more than those on Cracked Rear View, while the best moments eclipse those on the debut. It's a surprisingly assured and effective second album.
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LA Times
the band sounds as if it is neither trying to repeat a successful formula nor self-consciously changing up to avoid becoming a cliche--an unaffected move in itself
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Hootie 4 Life
It's all very pleasant, very digestible.
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People
plays like a live record, brimming with trademark Hootie harmonies, hooks, feel-good melodies and a wall of sound bound to raise goose bumps
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Baltimore Sun
To be sure, little about the band’s platinum musical formula has changed. Except, of course, that you’ll need a lyric sheet this time around.
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Independent
It is friendly, unassuming, no-message, out-of- town music for people who are tired of being sophisticated.
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The Music Box
it's a solid, comfortable album that doesn't feel tired
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The New York Times
provides the certainties of folk-rock, with its rudimentary chords and its homey strumming and picking. Meanwhile, the lyrics have grown less complacent, though without losing much of their triteness.
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Daily Vault
It's not a good album, it's not a bad album... it's just an album.
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Metro Active
but the emptiness of these songs will probably defy even the least-lyric-oriented fair-weather fan from really warming up to the album
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