Fairweather Johnson

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Fairweather Johnson
Hootie & the Blowfish Fairweather Johnson CD cover.JPG
Studio album by
Hootie & the Blowfish
ReleasedApril 23, 1996 (1996-04-23)
Recorded1995
StudioThe Site, San Rafael, California
Genre
Length49:20
Label Atlantic
82886-2
Producer Don Gehman
Hootie & the Blowfish chronology
Cracked Rear View
(1994)		Fairweather Johnson
(1996)		 Musical Chairs
(1998)
Singles from Fairweather Johnson
  1. "Old Man & Me (When I Get to Heaven)"
    Released: April 2, 1996
  2. "Tucker's Town"
    Released: June 25, 1996
  3. "Sad Caper"
    Released: 1996
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Robert Christgau Five Pointed Star Solid.svg [3]
Entertainment Weekly B [4]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]

Fairweather Johnson is the second studio album by American rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, released on April 23, 1996, through Atlantic Records. Three songs from the album were released as singles: "Old Man & Me", "Tucker's Town", and "Sad Caper". The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 in May 1996, while their debut, Cracked Rear View , was still in the charts. It has sold 2,361,000 copies in the US as of May 2012. [6]

Contents

Despite its initial success, sales tapered off quickly, and the album earned mixed reviews; much of the criticism took aim at the album's dour, alt-rock inspired sound as opposed to the jangly radio-friendly style of Cracked Rear View. It was included in Pitchfork Media's 2010 list of "ten career-killing albums" of the 1990s. [7] 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?" [8]

Track listing

All songs written by Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, Darius Rucker and Jim "Soni" Sonefeld.

  1. "Be the One" – 3:25
  2. "Sad Caper" – 2:49
  3. "Tucker's Town" – 3:45
  4. "She Crawls Away" – 4:25
  5. "So Strange" – 4:03
  6. "Old Man & Me (When I Get to Heaven)" – 4:27
  7. "Earth Stopped Cold at Dawn" – 3:27
  8. "Fairweather Johnson" – 0:51
  9. "Honeyscrew" – 3:36
  10. "Let It Breathe" – 3:53
  11. "Silly Little Pop Song" – 2:56
  12. "Fool" – 3:05
  13. "Tootie" – 3:04
  14. "When I'm Lonely" – 5:34

Personnel

Hootie & the Blowfish

Other musicians

Production

Chart positions

Chart (1996) [9] Peak
position
Australian Albums chart12
Canadian Albums chart [10] 6
Dutch Albums chart37
German Albums chart41
New Zealand Albums chart6
Scottish Albums chart [11] 9
Swedish Albums chart36
Swiss Albums chart37
UK Albums chart9
US Billboard 2001

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
New Zealand (RMNZ) [12] Gold7,500^
United Kingdom (BPI) [13] Gold100,000‡
United States (RIAA) [14] 3× Platinum3,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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