Bands or musicians that you like that everybody else seems to hate

Hootie and the Blowfish. I can understand the backlash caused by Hold My Hand and Only Wanna Be With You. But Cracked Rear View is such a good album, from beginning to end.

Beyond that, there's a soulful quality in Darius Rucker's voice that I dig.

 

How about Black Oak Arkansas? Or the Blind Boys from Alabama? The Texas Playboys?

If the rule applies to individuals, then you're wiping out a great bluesman since "B.B." as in "B.B. King" stands for "Beale Street Blues Boy." And Conway Twitty's stage name comes from a town in Arkansas and one in Texas.

 

Rucker has great pipes, but I always felt like you couldn't really believe anything he sung.
And that was reinforced when he refashioned himself into a country act.
Every work he sings just sounds fake to me.

 

I think you guys are getting a little too worked up over Bob's geographical name theory.

Anyway, not sure people hate this guy, but I think he's viewed as silly by many. But Alice Cooper made some great music during the '70s. We'll not mention his Frankenstein-based "comeback" in the mid-80s.

Desperado:

The Ballad of Dwight Fry:

No More Mr. Nice Guy:

 

Not worked up at all. Just running with a thread within a thread.

 

Who the fuck are the Blind Boys from Alabama?

 

And so I now have Jim Dandy to the Rescue in my head.

 

I have Vince's greatest hits album.

You know, Crazy Ted Nugent's first two solo albums are good.

 

How about his stuff with the Amboy Dukes? Love this song.

Pony Express:

 

You can love that and I'll love Broke Down on the Brazos

Seriously, I can't get fucking Jim Dandy out of my head.

 

I hate getting that song in my head.

 

The lead singer, Mr. Dandy, was missing a tooth from what I remember of him from The Midnight Special, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, or wherever it was.

Liked Ruby Starr, though.