After nearly 30 years as a band, Gainesville, Florida’s Sister Hazel have hit upon a surefire formula for continued success: Give the fans what they want.

The group’s most recent album, 2020’s “Element,” was initially released as a set of short EPs (aptly titled “Earth,” “Wind,” “Fire” and “Water”) that were then collected onto a full-length set.

“Our fans are always asking us to put out new music quicker, so we tried to combine that with the fact that at the time, we had a lot of songs and ideas that we wanted to release,” Sister Hazel drummer Mark Trojanowski told the Chronicle. “We decided to change the normal playbook of needing to finish a 12- song record before we could release the material, so instead we put out four EPs over a two-year period. It satisfied the Hazelnuts’ desire for more new songs and also kept us in this creative mode so we could finish all this material we had. Without the pressure to have so many songs done, we actually moved at a quicker pace.”

Sister Hazel, a frequent guest at Lexington’s Ichehouse Amphitheater in recent years, is back at the venue this week.

The band’s career echoes many of their 1990’s peers, like Spin Doctors or Barenaked Ladies — early grassroots followings interrupted by a huge hit or two, followed by decades of steady tours and subsequent albums gobbled up by fans but largely ignored by the mainstream.

Sister Hazel’s meteoric moment in the sun was the 1997 megahit “All For You,” an irresistible bit of pop perfection that peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts, and the album it came from, “Somewhere More Familiar,” was certified Platinum for selling more than a million copies.

“I think it was a song that instantly connected to people in every town we played,” Trowjanowski observed. “We were playing all the college towns in the Southeast in the mid-’90s and when they heard that song it would start to take on a life of its own — by the time we came back a month later, many people would already be singing the lyrics back to us.”

That song would create a blueprint for the band’s output that they follow to this day: Catchy, singalong choruses; topical, relatable lyrics; and guitar-driven pop songwriting.

Some bands would collapse under the weight of such a big hit that wasn’t followed by continued success at that same level, but Sister Hazel managed to maintain a fan base and the life of a working, touring band for decades. Trowjanowski doesn’t see any one ingredient that made the members’ partnership last, other than their ongoing friendship.

“We all know each other so well, it makes a big difference in spending so many days on the road together,” he said. “Most of our difficult times were in the late-’90s and early-2000s and once we got through the growing pains that came with success, we knew what it took to be a great band.”

One other notable fact about the band that may not get mentioned much, but is probably just as important, is that the group hasn’t changed members in all that time. Ken Block and Ryan Newell split the singing and songwriting duties up front, and Trowjanowski is joined in the rhythm section by Jett Beres on bass and Andrew Copeland on rhythm guitar.

Getting back to that constant touring schedule was a goal for the band after the pandemic’s lockdown days, Trowjanowski said, though he’s not sure they are quite there yet.

“We are playing more shows again, but I still believe we are not all the way back to the way things were in January 2020 — it might take a few years just for us to feel like things are normal again.”