CHARLIE DANIELS - DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA (live)

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Charles Edward Charlie Daniels (born October 28, 1936 in Wilmington, North Carolina) is an American musician famous for his contributions to Country, Southern Rock, and Jazz music. Daniels, a talented singer, guitarist, and fiddler, began writing and performing in the 1950s. In 1964, Daniels co wrote It Hurts Me, a song which Elvis Presley recorded. He worked as a Nashville session musician, often for producer Bob Johnston, including playing on three Bob Dylan albums during 1969 and 1970, and recordings by Johnny Cash and Leonard Cohen. Daniels recorded his first solo album, Charlie Daniels, in 1971 (see 1971 in country music). His first hit, the novelty song Uneasy Rider, was from his 1972 second album, Honey in the Rock, and reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 1974, Daniels organized the first in a series of Volunteer Jam concerts based in or around Nashville, Tennessee. Except for a three year gap in the late 1980s, these jams have continued ever since. In 1975, he had a top 30 hit as leader of the Charlie Daniels Band with the Southern Rock self identification anthem The Souths Gonna Do It Again. Long Haired Country Boy was also a minor hit in that year. Daniels won the Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance in 1979 for The Devil Went Down to Georgia, which reached #3 on the charts. Subsequent Daniels pop hits included In America (#11 in 1980), The Legend of Wooley Swamp (#31 in 1980), and Still in Saigon (#22 in 1982). In the late 1980s and 1990s, several of Daniels albums and singles were hits on the Country charts. Daniels also released several Gospel and Christian records. Daniels has never shied away from politics. The Souths Gonna Do It had a mild message of Southern cultural identity within the Southern rock movement. Daniels was an early supporter of Jimmy Carters presidential bid and performed at his January 1977 inauguration. In America was a reaction to the 1979 1981 Iran Hostage Crisis; it described a patriotic, united America where well all stick together and you can take that to the bank / Thats the cowboys and the hippies and the rebels and the yanks. In contrast, Still in Saigon (written by Dan Daley) was an effective portrayal of the plight of the American Vietnam veteran ten years after the war; it was part of an early 1980s wave of attention to the subject, in contrast to treatments such as Bruce Springsteens Born in the U.S.A. and Shut Out the Light, Billy Joels Goodnight Saigon, and somewhat later Steve Earles Copperhead Road. In 1990, Daniels country hit Simple Man seemingly advocated a pseudo Biblical form of vigilantism; lines such as Just take them [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put em on their knees and tie em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest, got Daniels considerable media attention and talk show visits. In 2003, Daniels published an Open Letter to the Hollywood Bunch in defense of George W. Bushs Iraq policy. His 2003 book Aint No Rag: Freedom, Family, and the Flag contains this letter as well as many other personal statements. During the 2004 presidential campaign, Daniels said that having never served in the military himself, he did not have the right to criticize John Kerrys service record. [1] Daniels now resides in Mount Juliet, TN, where the city has named a park after him. Daniels is a born again Christian. In 2005, he has made a cameo appearance along with Larry the Cable Guy, Kid Rock, and Hank Williams, Jr. in Gretchen Wilsons music video for the song All Jacked Up. [edit] Discography

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