Daniels went from being an in-demand session musician to a staple of Southern rock with his hit Devil Went Down to Georgia
Charlie Daniels performs during the Kicker Country Stampede at Tuttle Creek State Park, in Manhattan, Kansas, on June 22, 2018.Charlie Daniels, who went from being an in-demand session musician to a staple of Southern rock with his hit “Devil Went Down to Georgia,” has died at 83.
“I can ask people where they are from, and if they say `Waukegan,' I can say I’ve played there. If they say `Baton Rouge,' I can say I’ve played there. There’s not a city we haven’t played in,” Daniels said in 1998. “I’ve kept people employed for over 20 years and never missed a payroll,” Daniels said in 1998. That same year, he received the Pioneer Award from the Academy of Country Music.“There are few artists that touched so many different generations in our business than Charlie Daniels did,” said Sarah Trahern, CEO of the Country Music Association, in a statement. “Today, our community has lost an innovator and advocate of Country Music.
In his 1980 hit “Long Haired Country Boy,” he used to sing about being “stoned in the morning” and “drunk in the afternoon.” Daniels changed it to “I get up in the morning. I get down in the afternoon.”Otherwise, though, he rarely backed down from in-your-face lyrics.His “Simple Man” in 1990 suggested lynching drug dealers and using child abusers as alligator bait.Such tough talk earned him guest spots on “Politically Incorrect,” the G.
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