Danny Joe Brown had just left the southern rock band Molly Hatchet,[1] 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).
[4] 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.
[2] 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 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.