Johnny Hickman is best known for co-founding the band Cracker, but his talents and musical styles run far deeper. His fiery lead guitar sound and spirited co-writing achieved platinum status with Cracker's alternative radio hits Teen Angst, Low, Get Off This, and Eurotrash Girl. Hickman’s guitar playing style, which incorporates elements of alternative rock, country, and blues, has been a defining feature of Cracker’s music. 

In addition to his work with Cracker, he has also released solo albums, including “Palmhenge” (2005) and “Tilting” (2012), showcasing his songwriting and performing abilities. Hickman has contributed to numerous albums and collaborations as a musician, working with artists such as Warren Zevon, Chris Whitley, and Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers. He continues to tour and record with Cracker and pursue his solo endeavors. 

Kevn Kinney is the lead singer / songwriter of the Atlanta rock band, Drivin N Cryin, who are celebrating their 40th Anniversary in 2025. Since the band's 1985 inception, he's released some spare acoustic records on his own, often collaborating with R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck.

MacDougal Blues, released on Island Records in 1990, announced the rocker's arrival on the folk scene, with the engaging title cut and nine more acoustic tracks, produced by Buck, and mostly played by his bandmates from Drivin N Cryin.

Though often cited as a working-class lyricist, his is a unique spin on class, not urban yet not completely rural. 

Kinney still continues to tour as a solo artist in-between dates with Drivin N Cryin. Darius Rucker cut Kinney’s song, Straight To Hell, on his album When Was The Last Time. The Drivin N Cryin song was a major hit on their album, Mystery Road, originally released in 1989.

As musician, writer, and record producer, Lenny Kaye has been intimately involved with the creative impulse that marks the music. He has been a guitarist for poet-rocker Patti Smith since her band’s inception more than fifty years ago, and is the co-author of Waylon, the life story of Waylon Jennings. He has worked in the studio with such artists as Suzanne Vega, Jim Carroll, Soul Asylum, Kristen Hersh, and Allen Ginsberg, as well as his own solo muse. His seminal anthology of sixties’ garage-rock, Nuggets, has long been regarded as defining a genre. He can be heard on Underground Garage on Siriusxm. The Patti Smith Group is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of 'Horses' in 2025.

Throughout the remarkable twenty-two-year career of the Ramones the seminal punk rock band Monte A. Melnick saw it all. He was with the band for over 2,200 shows, from their very early CBGB dates to their final show in 1996 working his way up to be the bands tour manager. Now in this NEW BONUS EDITION with 40 more pages of new information. Monte tells his story of what it is like to be on and off the road with the band. Full of insiders' perspectives and exclusive interviews and packed with over 300 personal color photos and images; this is a must-have for all fans of the Ramones. The Ramones are Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famers, Recording Academy Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners, MTV Lifetime Achievement Award winners, Long Island Music Hall of Fame Award winners and inductees into The Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.