Run-Around

But this is The High Road from 1986, The Good Earth.

And now it's Run Around by Blues Traveler from 1994.

A little riff has a little bit of

that, but yeah.

No, I mean, it's funny.

Like I've like, obviously this precedes it.

I heard the, you know, the first, you know, second of this, I was like, Oh, it's run around.

And then I immediately like looked up this song on Reddit and everybody on Reddit was like, it's run around.

It received Grammy Award nominations for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group.

It lost to Runaround by Blues Traveler.

And Best Rock Song, it lo- it lost to You Oughta Know by Alanis Morissette.

Oh, crap.

Blue Traveler.

Which one? Hook or Run Around?

Uh, you would probably know Run Around more, would be my guess.

Run Around's like a '90s one hit wonder kind of situation.

[upbeat music]

[singing]

Oh, what will be, for you and me.

I still can see things hopefully.

Way back then, Jeff Sawyer, he was on it.

Crutchie, I had a math teacher in the fifth grade that if you raised your hand and got the answer right, you could stand in front of the class and sing Run Around by Blues Traveler.

[laughs]

What?

It seemed that The Spin Doctors were primed to be a major band, but after their nineteen ninety-four follow-up album, Turn It Upside Down, completely flopped, they were never heard from again.

Next, Blues Traveler with "Run-Around" and "Hook", both from nineteen ninety-five.

In the early nineteen nineties, the American neo-hippie jam band scene was centered around three bands: New York City's Blues Traveler, Vermont's Phish, and Virginia's Dave Matthews Band.

For a little while in the mid-nineties, Blues Travel- Traveler crossed over to the mainstream in a big way when the elliptical folk rock groove of "Run-Around" hit the top ten of the pop chart and "Hook", the band's vicious satirical takedown of the music industry's obsession with formulaic pop music, hit the top thirty.

But while the Dave Matthews Band went on to become an arena and stadium-filling act with many charting hit singles, and Phish were their generation's Grateful Dead by becoming the nation's biggest cult and premier arena and stadium-filling jam band, Blues Traveler simply faded from all relevance.

Not only did they never have anything close to a hit song again, their popularity and fan base greatly reduced to that of a small devoted following, not unlike where they were at the beginning of the decade in their pre-hit single phase.