Charlie Daniels

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Charles Edward Daniels (born October 28, 1936 in Wilmington, North Carolina) is an American country music, Southern rock, and jazz singer, fiddler, and guitarist. Daniels began writing and performing in the 1950s. In 1964, Daniels wrote a song called “It Hurts Me” which Elvis Presley recorded. He worked as a session musician, including playing on three Bob Dylan albums during 1969 and 1970. Daniels recorded his first solo album, Charlie Daniels, in 1970. His first hit, the novelty song “Uneasy Rider”, came off 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 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 South’s 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.
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  • lottadogs

    the flip side, of the 45 of uneasy rider was?.. funky junky...

    January 2012

  • moonmadness-

    he's very good musician.i love him. I'll listen to anywhere nice. but he very nationalist.

    July 2011

  • lanathel

    he's da man

    December 2010

  • ktg123

    Charlie is playing at Six Flags Great Adventure with Billy Ray Cyrus, Lee Greenwood and some others tomorrow. I can't wait to see all of them in concert and the best part is the concert is free with park entry. Is anyone else going?

    August 2009

  • pinetree99

    He's playing BamaJam this year, anyone going? http://www.last.fm/event/1011662

    May 2009

  • BluesRok

    Feel free to check and join the Country Artist of the Week group. Members vote for their favorite country artists to become the group's "Country Artist of the Week".

    March 2009

  • Lissof_leuf

    I'll take another toke... !!!!!

    February 2009

  • Lissof_leuf

    Leave this longhaired country boy,,,,ALONE !!!!

    February 2009
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