Album Cover Art

Let's start a long look at Molly Hatchet album cover art. Personally, I have never seen a MH cover I did not like. They are amazing covers and some have been done by Frank Frazetta (born February 9, 1928) who is an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, record-album covers, and other media. Some of his album covers include:

Nazareth - Expect No Mercy (1977)
Molly Hatchet - Molly Hatchet (1978)
Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' with Disaster (1979)
Molly Hatchet - Beatin' the Odds (1980)
Wolfmother - Wolfmother (2006)

Molly Hatchet

Southern Rock Masters - 2008


I bought this album mainly on faith, thinking, "OK, I like all the original versions of the songs they recorded for this, let's hear them Molly Hatchet style!" It's OK, but on this CD it appears that the band was trying to record faithful reproductions in the style of the original artists, for the most part. For a cover band, they did a good job here. However, this is Molly Hatchet!--a band with its own considerable power, legacy and individual style of music. I don't want to hear them play watered down versions of the styles of the original artists, I want to hear them approach these songs in their own style! Some of these songs shouldn't have been considered, IMO. Desperado, for one. C'mon guys. You're not a ballad band. Sharp Dressed Man--OK, that's more in their ballpark. But instead of taking Billy Gibbons' licks to another level with more power chords and dual leads or whatever, they're just trying to sound like ZZ Top. And it's good, but hey, if I want to listen to a ZZ Top song played in the style of ZZ Top, I'd rather listen to ZZ Top doing it!

So overall, a disappointment. A cool idea, kind of like what Guns 'n' Roses did with the Spaghetti Incident, but on this CD I thought the Hatchet should have taken these songs and adapt them more to their own style. ~ Amazon.com review