Music has a strange and powerful energy. Good songs and bands and the fans who listen to them never go away. They might seem to disappear for a year or five or 10 or 20, but they’ll never bow out. Enter Gator Country …

Gator Country was formed in 2005 after it was suggested that some original Molly Hatchet members put the band back together. Although Molly Hatchet was, and still is, performing under the name, the current group counts only one original member, guitarist Dave Hlubek, in its lineup. Several key pieces of the puzzle were missing. So, former Hatchet members – guitarist Steve Holland, vocalist Jimmy Farrar, drummer Bruce Crump and bassist Riff West – came back together a few years after performing at a 1999 tribute for Danny Joe Brown , Hatchet’s original singer who was suffering complications from diabetes, and finally lost the battle March 10, 2005.