And I say that as someone who tried to get Hootie at my Frat after the Pikes got Garth a couple years before!
It was written from a Bob Dylan/Band throw-away song fragment from The Basement Tapes. I'm pretty sure it was just a spur-of-the-moment composition: The song as you know it was composed by Old Crow Medicine Show: The Hootie version is a straight cover of the Old Crow Medicine Show version.
Hoboing? Looks like he's hitchhiking. You're reading way too much into it. I've seen that video plenty of times and racism never once entered my mind.
artists like fatty are not constrained by traditional music theory. you dont sideline as a country singer by playing by the rules.
Different strokes and all, but Hootie and/or Garth Brooks at a Lubbock frat house is, to me, one of Dante's Concentric Circles of Hell.
I couldn't live in Lubbock as an adult (my ex married an anchor there and lived beyond college and hated it) but for college, Tech was great.
Har har. News anchor. It was weird. She got proposed on his show. I didn't see it, but went out that weekend and guys kept coming up to me telling how they saw the proposal. Very surreal. They divorced a few years later. She's now married to a guy who just retired and they are vacationing in Puerto Vallarta for several months. She actually called me last week. She does that a few times a year when she's been drinking. Her current husband doesn't like me. Lol.
