Scotty McCreery’s "Bottle Rockets," featuring Hootie & the Blowfish, debuts at No. 30 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart and samples the band’s 1994 hit. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 04: ...

Scotty McCreery didn't just sample "Hold My Hand" by Hootie & the Blowfish for his new song "Bottle Rockets" — the nostalgic summer ballad actually includes brand new vocals from Darius Rucker and ...

COLUMBIA — Four kids who met at the University of South Carolina and honed their song-writing skills in messy apartments and on cramped bar stages in Columbia created one of the soundtracks of the ...

It was the Year of Hootie: With grunge tailing off, country getting huge and top 40 starting to drift to a mellower and rootsier middle, an unassuming group of good-time frat-rockers became the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sometimes, a serendipitous moment happens while writing a song that in hindsight seems like it was just meant to be. Such is the ...

When Hootie & the Blowfish released their debut “Hold My Hand” single in the summer of 1994, Scotty McCreery was a couple of months away from his first birthday. So it seems unlikely that the song, ...