Danny Joe Brown-And The Danny Joe Brown Band (1981)

Danny Joe Brown is best known for his membership in the legendary Southern rock band Molly Hatchet, with whom he recorded six outstanding albums: "Molly Hatchet" (1978), "Flirtin' with Disaster" (1979), "No Guts...No Glory" (1983), "The Deed is Done" (1984), "Lightning Striker Twice" (1989), and "Devil's Canyon" (1996), before leaving the band due to health problems shortly after the release of the latter album. However, he had already temporarily left the band after the album "Flirtin' with Disaster" (Molly Hatchet's biggest commercial success, achieving multiple platinum records) to found his own, The Danny Joe Brown Band. With them, he released the self-titled album "Danny Joe Brown and The Danny Joe Brown Band" in 1981, which became a cult classic of southern rock. Its repertoire was packed with American hard rock anthems like "Sundance", "Nobody Walks on Me", "The Alamo", "Run for Your Life", and in particular, "Edge of Sundown" a superb guitar epic that emerged directly from the depths of southern rock classics like Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" and the Outlaws' "Green Grass & High Tides", crafting a tremendous album that rivaled anything from his main band. In 2005, Danny Joe Brown passed away due to problems stemming from diabetes and kidney failure, which he had suffered from since the late 1970s.