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Charlie Daniels

March 11, 2023

For other people named Charlie Daniels, see Charlie Daniels (disambiguation).

Charles Edward Daniels (October 28, 1936 – July 6, 2020) was an American singer, musician, and songwriter.[2] His music fused rock, country, blues and jazz, pioneering Southern rock. He was best known for his number-one country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia". Much of his output, including all but one of his eight Billboard Hot 100 charting singles, was credited to the Charlie Daniels Band.

Charlie Daniels
Daniels in 2017
Background information
Birth nameCharles Edward Daniels
Born(1936-10-28)October 28, 1936
Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S.
DiedJuly 6, 2020(2020-07-06) (aged 83)
Hermitage, Tennessee, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • singer-songwriter
Instrument(s)
Years active1958–2020[1]
Labels
Formerly of
  • Misty Mountain Boys
  • The Jaguars
  • Charlie Daniels Band
  • Beau Weevils
Websitecharliedaniels.com

Daniels was active as a singer and musician from the 1950s until his death. He was inducted into the Cheyenne Frontier Days Hall of Fame in 2002,[3] the Grand Ole Opry in 2008,[4] the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009,[5] and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2016.[6]

Early life

Charles Edward Daniels was born October 28, 1936, in Wilmington, North Carolina to teenage parents William and LaRue Daniel.[7] The "s" in Daniels' name was added by mistake when his birth certificate was filled out.[7] Two weeks after Daniels had begun to attend elementary school, his family moved to Valdosta, Georgia, commuting between that city and Elizabethtown, North Carolina, before moving back to Wilmington.[7] After enduring measles, Daniels would require eyeglasses to see for most of his life afterward, which led to him being bullied by other children at his school.[7] Influenced by Pentecostal gospel, local bluegrass music groups and rhythm and blues artists that he heard on the radio,[8] as well as Western films, Daniels began writing and performing songs.[7]

Career

Sideman career and first rock band

Already skilled on guitar, fiddle, banjo, and mandolin, Daniels began his music career as a member of the bluegrass band Misty Mountain Boys in the 1950s.[7][9] In the 1960s, Daniels was performing rock and roll.[10] Daniels formed his own band, the Rockets, who later changed their name to the Jaguars after scoring a hit single with the instrumental recording "Jaguar".[7] After discovering jazz, the Jaguars began performing jazz music, before reverting to rock and country music by 1964.[11] During his career as a rock and roll sideman, Daniels also wrote songs for other performers. In July 1963, soul singer Jerry Jackson recorded Daniels' song "It Hurts Me"; the following year, on January 12, 1964, Elvis Presley recorded the better known recording of Daniels' song.[12] The songwriting credits list Charles E. Daniels and Joy Byers as the songwriters, although Byers' husband, songwriter and producer Bob Johnston, was the actual co-writer with Daniels.[12] Johnston encouraged Daniels to move to Nashville in order to get work as a session player, which led to Daniels recording with Bob Dylan on his 1969 album Nashville Skyline, Ringo Starr on his 1970 album Beaucoups of Blues and Leonard Cohen on his 1971 album Songs of Love and Hate, as well as further sessions with Dylan and Cohen's 1971 tour.[12][13] Dylan and Daniels found each other creatively invigorating during their recordings together, with Dylan saying that "when Charlie was around, something good would usually come out of the sessions", and Daniels describing the recording sessions with Dylan as "loose, free and, most of all, fun".[14] Daniels also produced albums for the Youngbloods, including their 1969 album Elephant Mountain.[14]

Solo career and formation of the Charlie Daniels Band

Daniels released his self-titled debut album in 1970, which helped lay the foundations for Southern rock.[15] Two years later, Daniels formed the Charlie Daniels Band.[16] Daniels scored a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Pop charts with "Uneasy Rider", a talking bluegrass song, in 1973.[14][17] The following year, Daniels organized the first Volunteer Jam concert.[16] The same year, the Charlie Daniels Band released the gold selling Fire on the Mountain, followed by the even more successful Nightrider, whose success was spurred by the Top 40 hit single "Texas".[16] Saddle Tramp was also a gold seller, and was the first release by the band to reach the top 10 of the Billboard Country charts.[16]

 
Daniels performing in 1979, the year he won a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance for "The Devil Went Down to Georgia".

In 1977, the Charlie Daniels Band released their most commercially successful album, Million Mile Reflections, which reached number five and was certified triple-platinum.[18] It featured the single "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1979, and won Daniels the Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance.[14] The band also attracted a high profile fan in President Jimmy Carter, who used Daniels' song "The South's Gonna Do It Again" as Carter's campaign theme; after Carter's win, the band performed at his 1977 inauguration.[13][14] In 1980, Daniels played himself in the film Urban Cowboy, starring John Travolta, and as a result became closely identified with the revival of country music generated by the film's success.[19] Subsequently, the combination of the success of the more country-oriented song and the decline in popularity of Southern rock led Daniels to shift focus in his sound from rock to country music.[16] After the platinum certified Full Moon (1980) and the gold certified Windows (1982), Daniels would not have another hit album until the 1989 release Simple Man, which earned Daniels another gold album,[16] although the title track sparked controversy, as it was interpreted by some as advocating vigilantism,[20] due to lyrics such as "Just take them rascals [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", which garnered Daniels considerable media attention and talk show visits.[21]

Later career

In the 1990s, Daniels' albums failed to chart, although he continued to draw audiences as a concert performer well into the 21st century.[16] In 1995, Daniels released the first of three Christian albums for Sparrow Records, The Door.[22] In 1999, Daniels was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame.[23]

The 21st century saw Daniels, who had previously recorded for major labels, predominantly recording for independent record labels.[16] In 2003, Daniels received considerable headlines for his pro-Iraq War anthem "This Ain't No Rag, It's a Flag", which Daniels followed with a book entitled Ain't No Rag.[16] Songs from the Longleaf Pines (2005) marked Daniels' first fully bluegrass and gospel album,[24] and began an association with Koch Records, who began releasing a series of Daniels' albums which included holiday albums, live albums and theme compilations.[16]

On October 18, 2005, Daniels was honored as a BMI Icon at the 53rd annual BMI Country Awards.[25] The following year, Daniels played in the backup band for Hank Williams Jr.'s opening sequence to Monday Night Football.[26] In November 2007, Daniels was invited to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry.[27] He was inducted during the January 19, 2008, edition of the Opry.[28] In 2009, Daniels was featured playing fiddle in a commercial for GEICO.[29]

In 2016, Daniels released Night Hawks, an album of Western swing music.[30] In October of that year, Daniels became a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.[31] In March 2017, HarperCollins announced that Daniels's memoir, Never Look at the Empty Seats, would be released on October 24, 2017.[32] In the late 2010s, Daniels, drummer James Stroud, guitarist Billy Crain and bassist Charlie Hayward formed a new band, Beau Weevils, which debuted on the 2018 album Songs in the Key of E, which Daniels described as being in a "down-home, swampy rock meets funk with a little taste of Delta-type of style."[33][34] On November 6, 2018, Daniels released a book of daily inspirational quotes and stories titled Let's All Make the Day Count: The Everyday Wisdom of Charlie Daniels through HarperCollins's Thomas Nelson imprint.[35]

Musical style

 
Daniels performing at the U.S. Naval Station Great Lakes, September 11, 2003.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine said that Charlie Daniels' self-titled debut album, released in 1970, was a pivotal recording in the development of the Southern rock genre, "because it points the way to how the genre could and would sound, and how country music could retain its hillbilly spirit and rock like a mother."[15] Erlewine described Daniels as "a redneck rebel, not fitting into either the country or the rock & roll [...] but, in retrospect, he sounds like a visionary, pointing the way to the future when southern rockers saw no dividing lines between rock, country, and blues, and only saw it all as sons of the south."[15] The Charlie Daniels Band fused rock, country, blues, and jazz; Erlewine described the band's sound as "a distinctly Southern blend" which emphasized improvisation in their instrumentation,[16] which was aided by the band utilizing two lead guitarists and two drummers.[14] The New York Times said that Daniels' music incorporated elements of country, blues, bluegrass, rock and Western swing.[14]

After the success of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", a single which Erlewine described as a "a roaring country-disco fusion",[16] Daniels shifted his sound from rock to country music. In both Daniels' rock and country recordings, Daniels "helped shape the sound of country-rock".[16] Rapper Cowboy Troy said that Charlie Daniels and Jerry Reed's vocal delivery "was called recitations at that time, but if you listened to it now, you'd probably call it a rap".[36] Rolling Stone described "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" as one of the earliest examples of country rap.[37] Regarding his musical style, Daniels said "I never claimed to be country"; Daniels described his style instead as "American music", saying that the Charlie Daniels Band played "some of all the music that's come across in America", particularly country, bluegrass, rock, gospel and jazz.[38] Daniels also said "I refuse to be categorized because I think that puts blinders on you."[39] Daniels' guitar playing was defined as having a "thick, buttery sound" which he achieved by stringing his Les Paul guitars with .10 gauge Gibson strings, and amplifying them through a Marshall cabinet.[40]

Views

 
Daniels being presented with the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service during a visit to the Pentagon in 2007.

Daniels did not endorse any political candidates, and refused to express political views in his concerts.[41][42] Regarding his views, Daniels said, "I do not consider myself political. I can understand why people would say what I write is political. It's not. It's just my feelings. It's common sense to me as an American citizen, which is not only our right, but our duty, really, to express our opinion, if no other way than at least in the voting booth. I don't do that on stage. I don't pay good money to go hear somebody talk about their political beliefs. It's just not part of my show. That is confined to the private part of my life, which I consider my writings on Twitter and [interviews]".[43] However, in 1976, Daniels performed at campaign fundraisers for Jimmy Carter's presidential bid, and at his inauguration in January the following year; Daniels also initially supported the legalization of marijuana.[7][44] In the following decade, however, Daniels expressed views that many considered to be right-wing and conservative.[7][14][16] According to Forbes writer Seth Cohen, Daniels "frequently captured the pent-up frustrations of many Americans who felt that a "coastal elite" cadre of politicians and activists were moving the country farther away from some of its core values".[45] According to Rolling Stone, Daniels had "plenty in common with moderates and liberals who supported Bernie Sanders, expressing disgust at Washington gridlock and a fervent belief in term limits for people in Congress so that fresh ideas keep coming." Daniels also supported "the idea that someone can criticize the president's decision making and not be called anti-American."[42]

Daniels was an outspoken Christian.[46] Regarding the removal of Confederate monuments and memorials, Daniels said, "If tearing them down did any good, I'd be all for it. But I don't see where it does any good."[41] Daniels also said that "when we pay attention to political correctness and things that don't really mean anything, we're wasting time, energy and political capital by not getting something meaningful done. We spend time chasing rainbows."[41] In 2013, following chemical weapons attacks by Bashar al-Assad, and United States military response, Daniels wrote, "These and other questions need to be answered before any kind of action, bilateral or unilateral is taken. Otherwise, we will be right back in the same old Middle Eastern boiling pot again and I think everybody, doves and hawks alike, have had enough of that."[42] After President Donald Trump's April 7, 2017 military strike against targets in Syria in retaliation for additional chemical weapon deployment, Daniels tweeted: "The world changed yesterday, America will no longer be viewed as a cowering toothless tiger."[42] In 2019, Daniels lambasted New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for signing the Reproductive Health Act, which legalized abortion until birth under some circumstances, tweeting "Watch the wrinkles on Cuomo's face lengthen as the ramifications of the thousands of murders he has sanctioned come to bear on him. The NY legislature has created a new Auschwitz dedicated to the execution of a whole segment of defenseless citizens. Satan is smiling."[47]

Personal life and death

Daniels married Hazel Juanita Alexander on September 20, 1964. They had one child, a son, Charles Edward Daniels Jr.[48] An avid University of Tennessee sports fan,[49] Daniels enjoyed hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, and other outdoor activities. He was a member of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and performed on their videos.[50]

Daniels suffered a major arm injury on January 30, 1980, while digging fence post holes on his farm near Mount Juliet. He suffered three complete breaks in his right arm and two broken fingers when his shirtsleeve caught on a spinning power auger. The injury required surgery and sidelined him for four months.[51][52]

Daniels was successfully treated for prostate cancer in 2001.[52] On January 15, 2010, Daniels was rushed to the hospital after suffering a stroke while snowmobiling in Colorado. He was released two days later.[52] During a doctor visit on March 25, 2013, Daniels was diagnosed with a mild case of pneumonia and admitted to a Nashville hospital for a series of routine tests. The tests revealed that a pacemaker was needed to regulate his heart rate. One was put in on March 28, and Daniels was released from the hospital within days.[53]

Daniels died on July 6, 2020, at the age of 83 of a hemorrhagic stroke at Summit Medical Center in Hermitage, Tennessee.[54]

Filmography

Discography

Main article: Charlie Daniels discography

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For other people named Charlie Daniels see Charlie Daniels disambiguation Charles Edward Daniels October 28 1936 July 6 2020 was an American singer musician and songwriter 2 His music fused rock country blues and jazz pioneering Southern rock He was best known for his number one country hit The Devil Went Down to Georgia Much of his output including all but one of his eight Billboard Hot 100 charting singles was credited to the Charlie Daniels Band Charlie DanielsDaniels in 2017Background informationBirth nameCharles Edward DanielsBorn 1936 10 28 October 28 1936Wilmington North Carolina U S DiedJuly 6 2020 2020 07 06 aged 83 Hermitage Tennessee U S GenresSouthern rock country rockOccupation s Musician singer songwriterInstrument s Vocals fiddle guitarYears active1958 2020 1 LabelsKama Sutra Epic Liberty Sparrow Capitol Reprise Blue HatFormerly ofMisty Mountain BoysThe JaguarsCharlie Daniels BandBeau WeevilsWebsitecharliedaniels wbr com Daniels was active as a singer and musician from the 1950s until his death He was inducted into the Cheyenne Frontier Days Hall of Fame in 2002 3 the Grand Ole Opry in 2008 4 the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009 5 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2016 6 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Sideman career and first rock band 2 2 Solo career and formation of the Charlie Daniels Band 2 3 Later career 3 Musical style 4 Views 5 Personal life and death 6 Filmography 7 Discography 8 References 9 External linksEarly life EditThis section needs expansion You can help by adding to it December 2022 Charles Edward Daniels was born October 28 1936 in Wilmington North Carolina to teenage parents William and LaRue Daniel 7 The s in Daniels name was added by mistake when his birth certificate was filled out 7 Two weeks after Daniels had begun to attend elementary school his family moved to Valdosta Georgia commuting between that city and Elizabethtown North Carolina before moving back to Wilmington 7 After enduring measles Daniels would require eyeglasses to see for most of his life afterward which led to him being bullied by other children at his school 7 Influenced by Pentecostal gospel local bluegrass music groups and rhythm and blues artists that he heard on the radio 8 as well as Western films Daniels began writing and performing songs 7 Career EditSideman career and first rock band Edit Already skilled on guitar fiddle banjo and mandolin Daniels began his music career as a member of the bluegrass band Misty Mountain Boys in the 1950s 7 9 In the 1960s Daniels was performing rock and roll 10 Daniels formed his own band the Rockets who later changed their name to the Jaguars after scoring a hit single with the instrumental recording Jaguar 7 After discovering jazz the Jaguars began performing jazz music before reverting to rock and country music by 1964 11 During his career as a rock and roll sideman Daniels also wrote songs for other performers In July 1963 soul singer Jerry Jackson recorded Daniels song It Hurts Me the following year on January 12 1964 Elvis Presley recorded the better known recording of Daniels song 12 The songwriting credits list Charles E Daniels and Joy Byers as the songwriters although Byers husband songwriter and producer Bob Johnston was the actual co writer with Daniels 12 Johnston encouraged Daniels to move to Nashville in order to get work as a session player which led to Daniels recording with Bob Dylan on his 1969 album Nashville Skyline Ringo Starr on his 1970 album Beaucoups of Blues and Leonard Cohen on his 1971 album Songs of Love and Hate as well as further sessions with Dylan and Cohen s 1971 tour 12 13 Dylan and Daniels found each other creatively invigorating during their recordings together with Dylan saying that when Charlie was around something good would usually come out of the sessions and Daniels describing the recording sessions with Dylan as loose free and most of all fun 14 Daniels also produced albums for the Youngbloods including their 1969 album Elephant Mountain 14 Solo career and formation of the Charlie Daniels Band Edit Daniels released his self titled debut album in 1970 which helped lay the foundations for Southern rock 15 Two years later Daniels formed the Charlie Daniels Band 16 Daniels scored a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Pop charts with Uneasy Rider a talking bluegrass song in 1973 14 17 The following year Daniels organized the first Volunteer Jam concert 16 The same year the Charlie Daniels Band released the gold selling Fire on the Mountain followed by the even more successful Nightrider whose success was spurred by the Top 40 hit single Texas 16 Saddle Tramp was also a gold seller and was the first release by the band to reach the top 10 of the Billboard Country charts 16 Daniels performing in 1979 the year he won a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance for The Devil Went Down to Georgia In 1977 the Charlie Daniels Band released their most commercially successful album Million Mile Reflections which reached number five and was certified triple platinum 18 It featured the single The Devil Went Down to Georgia which reached No 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1979 and won Daniels the Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance 14 The band also attracted a high profile fan in President Jimmy Carter who used Daniels song The South s Gonna Do It Again as Carter s campaign theme after Carter s win the band performed at his 1977 inauguration 13 14 In 1980 Daniels played himself in the film Urban Cowboy starring John Travolta and as a result became closely identified with the revival of country music generated by the film s success 19 Subsequently the combination of the success of the more country oriented song and the decline in popularity of Southern rock led Daniels to shift focus in his sound from rock to country music 16 After the platinum certified Full Moon 1980 and the gold certified Windows 1982 Daniels would not have another hit album until the 1989 release Simple Man which earned Daniels another gold album 16 although the title track sparked controversy as it was interpreted by some as advocating vigilantism 20 due to lyrics such as Just take them rascals 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 which garnered Daniels considerable media attention and talk show visits 21 Later career Edit In the 1990s Daniels albums failed to chart although he continued to draw audiences as a concert performer well into the 21st century 16 In 1995 Daniels released the first of three Christian albums for Sparrow Records The Door 22 In 1999 Daniels was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame 23 The 21st century saw Daniels who had previously recorded for major labels predominantly recording for independent record labels 16 In 2003 Daniels received considerable headlines for his pro Iraq War anthem This Ain t No Rag It s a Flag which Daniels followed with a book entitled Ain t No Rag 16 Songs from the Longleaf Pines 2005 marked Daniels first fully bluegrass and gospel album 24 and began an association with Koch Records who began releasing a series of Daniels albums which included holiday albums live albums and theme compilations 16 On October 18 2005 Daniels was honored as a BMI Icon at the 53rd annual BMI Country Awards 25 The following year Daniels played in the backup band for Hank Williams Jr s opening sequence to Monday Night Football 26 In November 2007 Daniels was invited to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry 27 He was inducted during the January 19 2008 edition of the Opry 28 In 2009 Daniels was featured playing fiddle in a commercial for GEICO 29 In 2016 Daniels released Night Hawks an album of Western swing music 30 In October of that year Daniels became a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame 31 In March 2017 HarperCollins announced that Daniels s memoir Never Look at the Empty Seats would be released on October 24 2017 32 In the late 2010s Daniels drummer James Stroud guitarist Billy Crain and bassist Charlie Hayward formed a new band Beau Weevils which debuted on the 2018 album Songs in the Key of E which Daniels described as being in a down home swampy rock meets funk with a little taste of Delta type of style 33 34 On November 6 2018 Daniels released a book of daily inspirational quotes and stories titled Let s All Make the Day Count The Everyday Wisdom of Charlie Daniels through HarperCollins s Thomas Nelson imprint 35 Musical style Edit Daniels performing at the U S Naval Station Great Lakes September 11 2003 Stephen Thomas Erlewine said that Charlie Daniels self titled debut album released in 1970 was a pivotal recording in the development of the Southern rock genre because it points the way to how the genre could and would sound and how country music could retain its hillbilly spirit and rock like a mother 15 Erlewine described Daniels as a redneck rebel not fitting into either the country or the rock amp roll but in retrospect he sounds like a visionary pointing the way to the future when southern rockers saw no dividing lines between rock country and blues and only saw it all as sons of the south 15 The Charlie Daniels Band fused rock country blues and jazz Erlewine described the band s sound as a distinctly Southern blend which emphasized improvisation in their instrumentation 16 which was aided by the band utilizing two lead guitarists and two drummers 14 The New York Times said that Daniels music incorporated elements of country blues bluegrass rock and Western swing 14 After the success of The Devil Went Down to Georgia a single which Erlewine described as a a roaring country disco fusion 16 Daniels shifted his sound from rock to country music In both Daniels rock and country recordings Daniels helped shape the sound of country rock 16 Rapper Cowboy Troy said that Charlie Daniels and Jerry Reed s vocal delivery was called recitations at that time but if you listened to it now you d probably call it a rap 36 Rolling Stone described The Devil Went Down to Georgia as one of the earliest examples of country rap 37 Regarding his musical style Daniels said I never claimed to be country Daniels described his style instead as American music saying that the Charlie Daniels Band played some of all the music that s come across in America particularly country bluegrass rock gospel and jazz 38 Daniels also said I refuse to be categorized because I think that puts blinders on you 39 Daniels guitar playing was defined as having a thick buttery sound which he achieved by stringing his Les Paul guitars with 10 gauge Gibson strings and amplifying them through a Marshall cabinet 40 Views Edit Daniels being presented with the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service during a visit to the Pentagon in 2007 Daniels did not endorse any political candidates and refused to express political views in his concerts 41 42 Regarding his views Daniels said I do not consider myself political I can understand why people would say what I write is political It s not It s just my feelings It s common sense to me as an American citizen which is not only our right but our duty really to express our opinion if no other way than at least in the voting booth I don t do that on stage I don t pay good money to go hear somebody talk about their political beliefs It s just not part of my show That is confined to the private part of my life which I consider my writings on Twitter and interviews 43 However in 1976 Daniels performed at campaign fundraisers for Jimmy Carter s presidential bid and at his inauguration in January the following year Daniels also initially supported the legalization of marijuana 7 44 In the following decade however Daniels expressed views that many considered to be right wing and conservative 7 14 16 According to Forbes writer Seth Cohen Daniels frequently captured the pent up frustrations of many Americans who felt that a coastal elite cadre of politicians and activists were moving the country farther away from some of its core values 45 According to Rolling Stone Daniels had plenty in common with moderates and liberals who supported Bernie Sanders expressing disgust at Washington gridlock and a fervent belief in term limits for people in Congress so that fresh ideas keep coming Daniels also supported the idea that someone can criticize the president s decision making and not be called anti American 42 Daniels was an outspoken Christian 46 Regarding the removal of Confederate monuments and memorials Daniels said If tearing them down did any good I d be all for it But I don t see where it does any good 41 Daniels also said that when we pay attention to political correctness and things that don t really mean anything we re wasting time energy and political capital by not getting something meaningful done We spend time chasing rainbows 41 In 2013 following chemical weapons attacks by Bashar al Assad and United States military response Daniels wrote These and other questions need to be answered before any kind of action bilateral or unilateral is taken Otherwise we will be right back in the same old Middle Eastern boiling pot again and I think everybody doves and hawks alike have had enough of that 42 After President Donald Trump s April 7 2017 military strike against targets in Syria in retaliation for additional chemical weapon deployment Daniels tweeted The world changed yesterday America will no longer be viewed as a cowering toothless tiger 42 In 2019 Daniels lambasted New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for signing the Reproductive Health Act which legalized abortion until birth under some circumstances tweeting Watch the wrinkles on Cuomo s face lengthen as the ramifications of the thousands of murders he has sanctioned come to bear on him The NY legislature has created a new Auschwitz dedicated to the execution of a whole segment of defenseless citizens Satan is smiling 47 Personal life and death EditDaniels married Hazel Juanita Alexander on September 20 1964 They had one child a son Charles Edward Daniels Jr 48 An avid University of Tennessee sports fan 49 Daniels enjoyed hunting fishing snowmobiling and other outdoor activities He was a member of the National Rifle Association NRA and performed on their videos 50 Daniels suffered a major arm injury on January 30 1980 while digging fence post holes on his farm near Mount Juliet He suffered three complete breaks in his right arm and two broken fingers when his shirtsleeve caught on a spinning power auger The injury required surgery and sidelined him for four months 51 52 Daniels was successfully treated for prostate cancer in 2001 52 On January 15 2010 Daniels was rushed to the hospital after suffering a stroke while snowmobiling in Colorado He was released two days later 52 During a doctor visit on March 25 2013 Daniels was diagnosed with a mild case of pneumonia and admitted to a Nashville hospital for a series of routine tests The tests revealed that a pacemaker was needed to regulate his heart rate One was put in on March 28 and Daniels was released from the hospital within days 53 Daniels died on July 6 2020 at the age of 83 of a hemorrhagic stroke at Summit Medical Center in Hermitage Tennessee 54 Filmography EditHeartworn Highways 1976 Himself 55 Murder in Music City aka The County Western Murders 1979 Himself 56 Urban Cowboy 1980 Himself 55 Saturday Night Live 1982 Himself Musical Guest 57 The Fall Guy 1983 Himself 58 The Lone Star Kid 1985 Vernon Matthews 56 Murder She Wrote 1987 Stoney Carmichael 55 Charlie Daniels Talent Roundup 1994 Himself Host 59 King of the Hill 2000 Himself 2 Episodes 55 18 Wheels of Justice 2000 Frank Schooler 60 The Legend Lives On A Tribute to Bill Monroe 2003 Himself 61 Fox NFL Sunday 2005 Super Bowl XXXIX Pregame Show Himself 62 Veggietales 2005 Himself Musical Guest Minnesota Cuke and the search for Samson s hairbrush 63 Dinner Impossible 2008 Himself 64 Poliwood 2009 Himself 56 A Twin Pines Christmas 2009 Himself 65 Sweet Home Alabama The Southern Rock Saga 2012 Himself 66 Iron Will Veterans Battle With PTSD 2016 Himself 67 Floating Horses The Life of Casey Tibbs 2017 Himself 68 Country Music 2019 Himself 69 Discography EditMain article Charlie Daniels discographyReferences Edit The Charlie Daniels Band Pure Southern Rock Retrieved June 15 2016 Charlie Daniels Wilmington native to join Country Music Hall of Fame Star News Associated Press March 29 2016 Cheyenne Frontier Days Hall of Fame Inductees Cheyenne Frontier Days Retrieved October 29 2018 Owens Jonathan January 24 2008 Charlie Daniels inducted into Opry Hall of Fame The Sanford Herald Archived from the original on May 20 2009 a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a CS1 maint unfit URL link Gilbert Calvin October 13 2009 News Rascal Flatts Perform With Toto During Musicians Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony CMT Watts Cindy March 29 2016 Randy Travis Charlie Daniels Fred Foster to be inducted to Country Music Hall of Fame The Tennessean a b c d e f g h i Betts Stephen L July 6 2020 Charlie Daniels Southern Rock Pioneer and Fiddle Great Dead at 83 Rolling Stone Retrieved December 16 2022 Burns Ken Charlie Daniels Biography PBS Retrieved December 17 2022 Charlie Daniels Biography CMT Retrieved March 5 2011 Mills Russell July 6 2020 Music legend Charlie Daniels on his long history with Tulsa KRMG Retrieved December 17 2022 Staff February 1 2015 Lost Bartlesville Remembers A look back at a visit with Charlie Daniel Examiner Enterprise Retrieved December 17 2022 a b c Betts Stephen L July 6 2020 That Time Elvis Presley Recorded Charlie Daniels Song Rolling Stone Retrieved December 17 2022 a b Erlewine Stephen Thomas October 25 2017 The South s Gonna Do It Again Charlie Daniels the Confederacy and the Rise of the New South in the 70s Medium Retrieved July 15 2020 a b c d e f g h Friskics Warren Bill July 6 2020 Charlie Daniels Fiddling Force in Country and Rock Dies at 83 The New York Times Retrieved December 17 2022 a b c Erlewine Stephen Thomas Charlie Daniels AllMusic Retrieved December 16 2022 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Erlewine Stephen Thomas Charlie Daniels Biography AllMusic Retrieved December 16 2022 Charlie Daniels Chart History Uneasy Rider Billboard Retrieved July 6 2020 Bomar Scott B 2021 Southbound An Illustrated History of Southern Rock Rowman amp Littlefield p 147 ISBN 9781493064700 Country Rocker and Fiddler Charlie Daniels Dies at Age 83 NBC Associated Press July 6 2020 Retrieved December 17 2022 Govan Chloe June 26 2012 Taylor Swift The Rise Of The Nashville Teen Omnibus Press ISBN 9780857127839 Hurst Jack November 26 1989 Crime on his Mind Chicago Tribune Retrieved July 6 2020 Staff December 11 2001 Daniels Making Sweet Music On Sparrow Billboard Retrieved December 24 2022 1999 Inductees North Carolina Music Hall of Fame Retrieved September 10 2012 Erlewine Stephen Thomas Songs from the Longleaf Pines review at AllMusic Retrieved November 23 2011 Charlie Daniels Named BMI Icon at 53rd Annual Country Awards BMI October 18 2005 USATODAY com Hank Williams Jr to continue Monday Night Football anthem on ESPN Usatoday30 usatoday com Retrieved May 11 2021 Charlie Daniels Invited to Become the Newest Member of the Grand Ole Opry Grand Ole Opry November 19 2007 Archived from the original on June 2 2009 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint unfit URL link The Grand Ole Opry inducts Charlie Daniels as newest member Grand Ole Opry January 20 2008 Archived from the original on May 20 2009 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint unfit URL link Charlie Daniels Fiddles for GEICO Country Weekly December 29 2009 ISSN 1074 3235 Archived from the original on April 26 2010 Betts Stephen L August 11 2016 Charlie Daniels Readies New Album of Cowboy Songs Night Hawk Rolling Stone Retrieved December 17 2022 Charlie Daniels Country Music Hall of Fame Retrieved July 20 2017 LTD BubbleUp News The Charlie Daniels Band Charliedaniels com Retrieved July 21 2017 Stecker Liv October 4 2018 Charlie Daniels Assembles Ace Lineup for New Album Beau Weevils Songs in the Key of E The Boot Retrieved December 17 2022 Charlie Daniels calls new band Beau Weevils a dream come true The Tennessean Retrieved November 2 2018 Charlie Daniels Release New Book Let s All Make the Day Count Thomasnelson com Retrieved May 20 2019 Cowboy Troy s Hick Hop Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press 47 49 November 10 2010 ISBN 9780807899755 Cantwell David Freeman Jon Hudak Joseph July 6 2020 Charlie Daniels 10 Essential Songs Rolling Stone Retrieved December 28 2022 Charlie Daniels may be synonymous with The Devil Went Down to Georgia arguably one of the earliest examples of country rap Staff June 24 2022 Charlie Daniels is not a fan of New Country Music Country Thang Daily Retrieved December 17 2022 Stromblad Cory June 29 2011 Charlie Daniels Never Claimed to Be Country The Boot Retrieved December 17 2022 Drozdowski Ted May 6 2014 Southern Rock Legend Charlie Daniels on His Career Gibson Guitar Corporation Archived from the original on March 15 2016 Retrieved March 15 2016 a b c Staff July 6 2020 What Charlie Daniels had to say about Donald Trump Confederate statues and political correctness in 2018 interview The Morning Call Retrieved December 17 2022 a b c d Freeman Jon June 23 2017 Hank Williams Jr and Charlie Daniels Inside Their Defiant Politics Rolling Stone Retrieved December 17 2022 Cridlin Jay November 27 2017 Charlie Daniels talks aging Gregg Allman and why he ll never talk politics on stage Tampa Bay Times Retrieved December 17 2022 Strong M C 1996 The Great Rock Discography Edinburgh Canongate Publishing p 198 ISBN 0862416043 Cohen Seth July 7 2020 Charlie Daniels Understood Something About MAGA That Democrats Still Don t Forbes Retrieved December 17 2022 Whitaker Sterling July 10 2020 Charlie Daniels Stressed His Faith Family Country and Music in One of His Final Interviews Watch Taste of Country Retrieved December 17 2022 Music legend Charlie Daniels blasts NY s Dem governor over new abortion law Satan is smiling Fox News Charlie Daniels Biography The Charlie Daniels Band Retrieved June 15 2016 Music legend Charlie Daniels talks Alabama Tennessee game before Biloxi show Sun Herald October 14 2016 Retrieved June 12 2019 Freedom s Safest Place You Haven t Met America YouTube March 22 2016 Retrieved June 18 2022 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Country Rock Singer Charlie Daniels Hurt In Farm Accident Ocala Star Banner Associated Press January 30 1980 Retrieved June 15 2016 a b c Charlie Daniels on his medical recovery Doctors treat and God heals Today April 1 2014 Charlie Daniels gets a pacemaker USA Today Associated Press March 28 2013 Bogard Catlin July 6 2020 Country music and southern rock legend Charlie Daniels dies at 83 WTVF Retrieved July 6 2020 Hall Kristin M July 6 2020 Country rocker and fiddler Charlie Daniels dies at age 83 Associated Press Retrieved July 6 2020 a b c d Charlie Daniels Rotten Tomatoes Retrieved July 6 2020 a b c Filmography for Charlie Daniels Turner Classic Movies Retrieved July 6 2020 SNL Season 7 Episode 18 Robert Culp The Charlie Daniels Band NBC April 24 1982 Retrieved July 6 2020 Haruch Steve October 7 2008 Pirates of Nashville The Fall Guy Nashville Scene Retrieved July 6 2020 Mullins Jesse October 1994 Sentiments of a Simple Man American Cowboy Vol 1 no 3 Active Interest Media Inc p 53 ISSN 1079 3690 Triplett Gene September 29 2000 Top speed Southern Rock Charlie Daniels Band races into the fairgrounds The Oklahoman Retrieved July 6 2020 Various The Legend Lives On A Tribute To Bill Monroe Discogs Retrieved July 6 2020 Di Nunzio Miriam Hall Kristin M July 6 2020 Charlie Daniels country music star dies at 83 Chicago Sun Times Associated Press Retrieved July 6 2020 Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson s Hairbrush VeggieTales Retrieved July 6 2020 Darden Beville August 11 2008 James Otto and Charlie Daniels Show Off Their Culinary Skills The Boot Retrieved July 6 2020 Beck Ken October 14 2009 Charlie Daniels makes a musical merry Christmas Chicago Sun Times Associated Press Retrieved July 6 2020 Sweet Home Alabama The Southern Rock Saga Everyone Wants to be Redneck BBC Four BBC Retrieved July 6 2020 Country Music stars speak out about PTSD Awareness for Iron Will A Movie Narrated by Billy Bob Thornton Music Matters Magazine February 1 2016 Retrieved July 6 2020 Frei Terry July 25 2015 Casey Tibbs Lassoing a legend of pro rodeo The Denver Post Retrieved July 6 2020 Country Music IMDb IMDb com Inc Retrieved April 3 2022 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Charlie Daniels Wikiquote has quotations related to Charlie Daniels Official website Charlie Daniels discography at Discogs Charlie Daniels interview at 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