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Joe Brown
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Molly Hatchet - The Danny Joe Brown Band
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Joe Brown (wikipedia bio)
Danny Joe Brown, Rock Singer, Dies at 53
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 16, 2005 DAVIE, Fla., March 15 (AP) -
Danny Joe Brown, the lead singer of the Southern rock band Molly Hatchet,
died on Thursday at his home here. He was 53. The cause was complications
of diabetes, his sister Lyndia Brown said. In 1975 Mr. Brown, a native of
Jacksonville, Fla., joined Molly Hatchet, named after a Southern prostitute
who was said to have beheaded and mutilated her clients. He was the frontman
on the group's self-titled first album, released in 1978, which sold more
than a million copies, and its second, "Flirtin' With Disaster," which sold
more than two million. Mr. Brown left the band in the early 1980's because
of his diabetes. After forming his own group, the Danny Joe Brown Band, he
rejoined Molly Hatchet in 1982 to participate in the album "No Guts ... No
Glory." That album had limited success and Molly Hatchet eventually disbanded,
but the group reunited in 1996.