{"id":806492,"date":"2020-04-17T09:29:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T15:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=985834"},"modified":"2020-04-17T09:29:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T15:29:41","slug":"hear-hootie-and-the-blowfish-cover-r-e-m-s-losing-my-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-hootie-and-the-blowfish-cover-r-e-m-s-losing-my-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Hootie and the Blowfish Cover R.E.M.\u2019s \u2018Losing My Religion\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Hootie.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/hootie-and-the-blowfish\/\">Hootie and the Blowfish<\/a> have released a cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/r.e.m.\">R.E.M.\u2019s<\/a> \u201cLosing My Religion,\u201d available to stream and purchase exclusively on Amazon Music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we were cutting our teeth as a band, almost every night fans would hear us on stage covering R.E.M.,\u201d Hootie and the Blowfish frontman and South Carolina native Darius Rucker said. \u201c\u2018Losing My Religion\u2019 is a song that when you first listen to it, you can feel the struggle, the back-and-forth. Plus, Peter Buck wrote the song on mandolin and being in the south, it\u2019s a lot of fun to perform live. We\u2019re releasing it as a cover with Amazon Music as I think it\u2019s still as thrilling to people today as it was when it was first released.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the band embarked on their sold-out Grand Therapy Tour, playing shows at Madison Square Garden and other stadium venues. They released their last album,&nbsp;<em>Imperfect Circle<\/em>, last November, featuring the singles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/hootie-and-the-blowfish-new-song-hold-on-album-imperfect-circle-900847\/\">\u201cHold On\u201d<\/a> (co-written by Chris Stapleton), \u201cRollin\u2019,\u201d \u201cMiss California\u201d and \u201cLonely on a Saturday Night.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hootie-and-the-blowfish-r-e-m-losing-my-religion-985834\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hootie and the Blowfish have released a cover of R.E.M.\u2019s \u201cLosing My Religion,\u201d available to stream and purchase exclusively on Amazon Music. \u201cWhen we were cutting our teeth as a band, almost every night fans would hear us on stage covering R.E.M.,\u201d Hootie and the Blowfish frontman and South Carolina native Darius Rucker said. \u201c\u2018Losing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 20:35:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}