News — Hootie & The Blowfish

HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH RE-RELEASE IMPERFECT CIRCLE UNDER ROCK CATEGORY Re-Release to Include Added Track With Their Take on R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion”     Hootie & the Blowfish announced the re-release of their latest album, Imperfect Circle, under the Rock category as further evidence of the band’s musical home in several genres. Initially released in the Country space in November 2019, the re-release of the album also adds their take on the classic “Losing My Religion” by R.E.M., who the band has credited as a major inspiration since their earliest days at the University of South Carolina.“Hootie now occupies an anomalous cultural space,...

Today, Hootie & The Blowfish released an Amazon Original cover of R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion,” available to stream and purchase only on Amazon Music.   Listen To “Losing My Religion” only on Amazon Music: amzn.to/Hootie   "When we were cutting our teeth as a band, almost every night fans would hear us on stage covering R.E.M.," shares Hootie & the Blowfish frontman Darius Rucker from his home in South Carolina. "'Losing My Religion' is a song that when you first listen to it, you can feel the struggle, the back-and-forth. Plus, Peter Buck wrote the song on mandolin, and being...