NEW: Country rocker and fiddler Charlie Daniels dies at age 83
1 / 4Obit - Charlie DanielsFILE - In this Nov. 30, 2016 file photo, Charlie Daniels appears at the Charlie Daniels 80th Birthday Volunteer Jam in Nashville, Tenn. Daniels who had a hit with “Devil Went Down to Georgia” has died at age 83. A statement from his publicist said the Country Music Hall of Famer died Monday due to a hemorrhagic stroke. NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country music firebrand and fiddler Charlie Daniels, who had a hit with"Devil Went Down to Georgia," has died at age 83.
Daniels, a singer, guitarist and fiddler, started out as a session musician, even playing on Bob Dylan's “Nashville Skyline” sessions. Beginning in the early 1970s, his five-piece band toured endlessly, sometimes doing 250 shows a year. He played himself in the 1980 John Travolta movie “Urban Cowboy” and was closely identified with the rise of country music generated by that film.
In “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” a 1979 song about a fiddling duel between the devil and a whippersnapper named Johnny, Daniels originally called the devil a “son of a bitch,” but changed it to “son of a gun.” “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” was No. 1 on the country charts in 1979 and No. 3 on the pop charts. It was voted single of the year by the Country Music Association.“The devil bowed his head because he knew that he’d been beat.“Johnny said, `Devil just come on back if you ever want to try again.He hosted regular Volunteer Jam concerts in Nashville in which the performers usually were not announced in advance.
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