Editing Cracked Rear View (section)

===Critical reception===
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="AM" />
| rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s|Christgau's Consumer Guide]]''
| rev2score = B<ref name="rc">{{cite book |chapter=Hootie and the Blowfish: Cracked Rear View |chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=1543 |access-date=May 5, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729045433/http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=hootie+and+the+blowfish |archive-date=July 29, 2013 |url-status=live |title=Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s |title-link=Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |publisher=[[St. Martin's Griffin]] |year=2000 |isbn=0-312-24560-2}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Consequence (publication)|Consequence]]''
| rev3score = B<ref name="cos" />
| rev4 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Hootie and the Blowfish |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music |last=Larkin |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Larkin |publisher=[[Omnibus Press]] |edition=5th concise |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-85712-595-8}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Kerrang!]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Blake |first=Mark |date=March 18, 1995 |title=Albumz |magazine=[[Kerrang!]] |publisher=[[EMAP]] |issue=536|page=48}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock]]''
| rev6score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Yonke |first=David |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/556 557] |isbn=1-57859-061-2 |chapter=Hootie & The Blowfish}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/hootietheblowfish/albums/album/150938/review/5946885/cracked_rear_view |title=Hootie & the Blowfish: Cracked Rear View |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=October 20, 1994 |access-date=May 5, 2012 |last=Evans |first=Paul |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071226173356/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/hootietheblowfish/albums/album/150938/review/5946885/cracked_rear_view |archive-date=December 26, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev8score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Hootie & the Blowfish |last=Randall |first=Mac |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |edition=4th |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/390 390–91]}}</ref>
}}

Critical reviews of ''Cracked Rear View'' were mostly positive. Editors at [[AllMusic]] rated this album 4.5 out of 5 stars, with critic [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] writing that the album as "the success story of 1994/1995" and continued, "although Hootie & the Blowfish aren't innovative, they deliver the goods, turning out an album of solid, rootsy folk-rock songs that have simple, powerful hooks".<ref name="AM" /> A revie for retailers by ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' compared the music to [[Counting Crows]] and [[John Mellencamp]] and spotlighted "Hold My Hand" as particularly accessible.<ref>{{Cite magazine |issn=0006-2510 |language=en-US |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=1994-07-23 |title=Pop |department=Album Reviews |page=56 |volume=106 |issue=29 |editor-first1=Paul |editor-last1=Verna |editor-first2=Marilyn A. |editor-last2=Gillen |editor-first3=Peter |editor-last3=Cronin}}</ref> [[Robert Christgau]] rated the album a B and praised Darius Rucker's "gruff grit [which] adds an extra layer of substance" to the simple songwriting and musicianship and noted the importance of mainstream white audiences hearing about black issues from a black singer.<ref name="rc" />

The band won for [[Grammy Award for Best New Artist]] and "[[Let Her Cry (song)|Let Her Cry]]" won [[Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals]] at the [[38th Annual Grammy Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/hootie-blowfish/16330 |title=Hootie & the Blowfish |publisher=[[The Recording Academy]] |date=n.d. |accessdate=2024-06-08 |language=en-US}}</ref>