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Or at least that’s the way it seemed until July 6th, 2020 when at the age of eight-three, Charlie Daniels died from a hemorrhagic stroke in Tennessee.īut we know, just like the legions of Charlie’s fans everywhere that he had the last laugh, and that he’s sitting just inside the Pearly Gates, gazing down at, and taunting and chuckling at his lifelong adversary while stringing and tuning his fiddle.For years, Charlie Daniels has been crowing “The South’s Gonna Do It Again.” When the singer-fiddler-guitarist first recorded that song back in 1975, he was talking about how Southern boogie bands such as his, the Allman Brothers and the Marshall Tucker Band were on the move, in some manner echoing the way that the South was, shall we say, asserting itself back at Ft. It seemed as though nothing could ever slow Charlie Daniels down, and that he, like Johnny had before him in his most famous and loved song, had truly beaten the devil. In two thousand and sixteen, Charlie Daniels was finally inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame after half a century of writing and recording music that furthered the cause of both Country and Western and Southern Rock and in two thousand and seventeen HarperCollins announced the publication of his long-anticipated memoir, Never Look At The Empty Seats. But you know what they say about politics and music, don’t you? They don’t belong in the same house and make terrible neighbors. And even when he did find his own feet and launched his own career, Charlie never forgot who his friends were, which is why he ended up playing fiddle on Hank Williams Jnr‘s nineteen seventy-five record, Hank Williams Jr And Friends.Ĭharlie wasn’t without his naysayers, and while he was undoubtedly a supporter of the counterculture movement of the sixties and a proud democrat when he was a younger man, as evidenced in the lyrics to Uneasy Rider, as he got older, his views became increasingly right-wing.
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He may not have been a household name outside of the home of Country music, but that didn’t matter to Charlie Daniels because he was doing what he loved to do best, and was making a pretty good living doing it. It might not be credited to Charlie Daniels, as he used the pseudonym Joy Byers who was the wife of his producer Bob Johnston, but Elvis was singing one of Charlie’s songs before anyone outside of Nashville even knew who Charlie was.Īnd it wasn’t just Elvis that Charlie recorded with, as he played electric guitar and bass on three of Bob Dylan’s albums between nineteen sixty-nine and nineteen seventy, the period when Dylan was (according to his more rabid and enthusiastic fans) at the pinnacle of his career, and played fiddle on all of the early Marshall Tucker Band albums. Music is a fickle mistress and success isn’t guaranteed, and despite releasing his first single Robot Romp in nineteen sixty-one, a record that no one bought at the time but everyone claims to love now, Charlie made a pretty good living as a session musician in Nashville.īetween the release of his first record, and Middle Of A Heartache, his second single that performed pretty much the same as his first had, he wrote a song that Elvis Presley liked enough to record, It Hurts Me. Raised on a diet of Gospel, Blues, Country, and Baseball, Charlie was only ever going to be a ballplayer or a musician, and after discovering a natural affinity for the guitar, the fiddle, and the banjo, he thought he’d entrust his fate to the latter.Īfter graduating from high school, he formed his first band and hit the road to find fame and fortune. While Robert Johnson met his fate in Mississippi, Charlie Daniels began his race with the Devil in North Carolina in nineteen thirty-six.