Year : 1981 (Rock Candy Remastered 2008)
Style : Hard Rock , Classsic Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans + Video
Size : 127 mb
Bio:
The Danny Joe Brown Band (DJBB) was founded by lead singer Danny Joe Brown in 1980. Danny Joe Brown had just left the southern rock band Molly Hatchet,which had followed in the footsteps of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Outlaws to achieve wide national success with two multi-platinum albums and international recognition with intensive world tours.The first line-up of the band, besides Danny Joe Brown, consisted of Bobby Ingram (guitar/slide guitar/vocals), Kenny McVay (guitar), Steve Wheeler (guitar/slide guitar/vocals), John Galvin (keyboards/vocals), Buzzy Meekins (bass/vocals) and Jimmy Glenn (drums).Ingram was an old acquaintance of Brown, having played with him in some club bands before he joined Molly Hatchet in the year 1976.The musical emphasis of the new band remained quite close to the original style that Molly Hatchet had originated, with no frills southern rock songs about southern/western flavored topics such as gambling and The Alamo. At the same time, his former band was starting to lean more towards a straight ahead hard rock approach.The band signed with the major label Epic Records, the same label that Molly Hatchet was on, which released their only self-titled album in 1981. The album was recorded at Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas and produced by Glyn Johns.The album featured the almost cliché cut that started out a slower more serious chord progression that evolves into the three guitar lead jam, exactly as Lynyrd Skynyrd's famous song, "Free Bird" had done. The Danny Joe Brown Band's contribution to this format was the song "Edge of Sundown". In addition to "Edge of Sundown", Wheeler's song "Nobody Walks on Me" was also submitted to MTV and enjoyed rotation.The Danny Joe Brown Band toured nationally to promote their album to noticeably smaller crowds than Danny Joe had experienced with Molly Hatchet, although they were billed as the opening act for Blackfoot on that band's Marauder tour in 1981. Danny Joe Brown had to find a replacement band after the entire group quit just prior to the Eastern Seaboard leg of the band's US solo album tour from February through May 1982.The new members were a three-guitar line-up featuring Jimmy Polston, Billy Poovey and Al Tuten, bassist Ronnie Able, and drummer Shane Bressette, all previously known as Revelation from Beaufort, South Carolina.At the completion of the album tour, Brown returned to Molly Hatchet, after giving this latest touring outfit his blessings to continue on under the name of Bounty Hunter which continues on to this day.Shane Bressette died in the early 1980s, but the other members continue to tour as Bounty Hunter.The Danny Joe Brown Band achieved limited success on their own, but multiple members of the original band went on to join Molly Hatchet. At a point in the 1990s, that decade's version of Molly Hatchet was being captained by a veteran of the Danny Joe Brown Band, Bobby Ingram, while the three original members of Molly Hatchet that had made the band famous, were forced to perform under the name Gator Country due to legal contracts.
Danny Joe Brown - Best known as the raspy-voiced frontman for Southern rock band Molly Hatchet, singer Danny Joe Brown was born August 24, 1951, in Jacksonville, FL. At the age of 19, while a member of the U.S. Coast Guard, he was diagnosed with diabetes, but after completing his military duties he nevertheless pursued a career in rock & roll.In 1974, Brown teamed with lead guitarists David Hlubek and Steve Holland to form Molly Hatchet, so named in honor of the 17th century prostitute chopping off her clients' heads.After adding guitarist Duane Roland, bassist Banner Thomas, and drummer Bruce Crump and honing its Dixie-fried hard rock on the Southeast club circuit, Molly Hatchet issued its self-titled debut LP in the fall of 1978, selling a million copies.The follow-up, Flirtin' with Disaster, moved twice as many units, but as the band's commitments increased, Brown's struggle with diabetes grew more difficult, and exhaustion forced him to resign in 1980.He resurfaced in 1981 with a solo project, Danny Joe Brown and the Danny Joe Brown Band, before rejoining Molly Hatchet a year later for the tepidly received No Guts...No Glory.The group went on hiatus in 1985 but returned four years later with Lightning Strikes Twice.The record fared poorly, and Molly Hatchet soon dissolved for good, although a latter-day version of the group with none of its original lineup still intact played the club circuit well into the following century.Brown retired from music for good after suffering a massive stroke in 1998. He died of renal failure at his home in Davie, FL, on March 10, 2005.
Album:
One of the most puzzling moves in the history of Southern Rock occurred when vocalist Danny Joe Brown left MOLLY HATCHET at the top of their huge late Seventies success. He formed THE DANNY JOE BROWN BAND and released the group’s self-titled debut, finely remastered by Rock Candy Records.Shortly before Brown abandon Molly Hatchet, the group recorded one of the genre’s definitive albums, but Brown wanted his own career. Hence, this album is of interest to Southern Rock / bluesy hard rock fans because it should come as no surprise that it sounds like Molly Hatchet around that era – the early ’80s.Like Molly Hatchet, Brown’s band also featured a three-guitar attack, courtesy of Bobby Ingram, Steve Wheeler and Kenny McVay.A couple of extra musical touches support Brown’s throaty growl: slide guitar riffing by Ingram and Wheeler, keyboard accents by John Galvin and harmony vocals that certainly must have been encouraged by producer / engineer Glyn Johns, a legend who’d worked with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Eagles and Eric Clapton.The “The Danny Joe Brown Band” album is about as good a Southern Rock record as you will ever hear. With impassioned vocals and copious lead guitar playing, the songs are superior examples of a genre now considered as part of the classic rock legacy.Indeed, it houses two of the movement’s greatest signature tracks; ‘The Alamo’ and ‘Edge Of Sundown’, the latter a mythical guitar-driven epic containing an extended guitar showdown in the finest Southern Rock tradition.The Southern Rock hall of fame is decorated with some of the finest voices in the music business; Ronnie Van Zant and Gregg Allman being two fine examples. Equally as impressive is the immediate and identifiable rasp of Danny Joe Brown.A fine remaster by Rock Candy on this very good slice of moving Classic Rock.
Line-Up:
Danny Joe Brown (R.I.P. 2005) – lead vocals - See also: ex-Molly Hatchet
Bobby Ingram – guitar, slide guitar, backing vocals
Steve Wheeler – guitar, slide guitar
Kenny McVay – guitar
Buzzy Meekin – bass, backing vocals
Jimmy Glenn – drums
John Galvin – keyboards, backing vocals
Production:
Engineer – Glyn Johns
Producer – Glyn Johns
Tracklist:
01. Sundance
02. Nobody walks on me
03. The alamo
04. Two days home
05. Edge of sundown
06. Beggar man
07. Run for your life
08. Hear my song
09. Gambler’s dream
10. Hit the road
+ Video "Edge of Sundown" (Official Video)
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