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Alternative rock band Hootie and the Blowfish was formed in Columbia, South Carolina in 1986. Contrasting with the sound of their grunge contemporaries, the band's music was described as a mainstream pop variation of blues rock with equal parts of jam band grooves and MOR pop. It was also described as alternative rock, soft rock, roots rock, heartland rock, country rock, and college rock.