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In the band Hootie & the Blowfish, who is the Blowfish?

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The '90s were an insane time in popular music.

Let's take May of 1994 as an example. Among the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 were the following artists: Ace of Base, Prince, Crash Test Dummies, Richard Marx, and Mariah Carey.

That kind of broad mix of genre and style allowed bands like Hootie & the Blowfish to somehow rise to prominence and become huge, stadium-filling groups.

Surely you remember many of the band's hit songs, but which one was the Blowfish?

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