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Charles Edward Daniels (born October 28, 1936 in
Wilmington, North Carolina) is an United
States|American country music, Southern rock, and
jazz singer, fiddler, and guitarist.

Daniels began writing and performing in the 1950s.

In 1964, Daniels sold a song "It Hurts Me" to
Elvis Presley. 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 "Southern rock|The
South's Gonna Do It".  "Long Haired Country Boy"
was also a minor hit in that year.

Daniels won the Grammy Award for Best Country
Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal|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
music|gospel and Christian music|Christian
records.

Charlie Daniels has never shied away from
politics.  "The South's Gonna Do It" had a mild
message of Southern cultural identity within the
Southern rock movement.  Daniels was an early
supporter of Jimmy Carter's President of the
United States|presidential bid and performed at
his January 1977 inauguration. 

"In America" was a reaction to the 1979-1981 Iran
Hostage Crisis; it described a patriotic, united
America where "we'll all stick together and you
can take that to the bank / That's the cowboys and
the hippies and the rebels and the yanks."  In
contrast, "Still in Saigon" was an effective
portrayal of the plight of the American Vietnam
veteran ten years after the war; it was part of an
early 1980s wave of attention to the subject,
which resulted in similar treatments such as Bruce
Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." and "Shut Out
the Light", Billy Joel's "Goodnight Saigon", and
somewhat later Steve Earle's "Copperhead Road".

In 1990, Daniels' country hit "Simple Man"
seemingly advocated a Biblical form of
vigilantism; lines such as "Just take them
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," got Daniels considerable media
attention and talk show visits.

In 2003, Daniels published an Open Letter to the
Hollywood Bunch in defense of George W. Bush's
2003 invasion of Iraq|Iraq policy.  His 2003 book
Ain't No Rag: Freedom, Family, and the Flag
contains this letter as well as many other
personal statements.  During the 2004 presidential
campaign, Daniels acknowledged that having never
served in the military himself, he did not have
the right to criticize John Kerry's service
record.
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Daniels now resides in Mount Juliet, Tennessee,
where the city has named a park after him. 

==Discography==

*Charlie Daniels (1970)
*John, Grease and Wolfman (1970)
*Honey in the Rock (1972) aka Uneasy Rider
*Fire On The Mountain (1974)
*Nightrider (1975)
*Volunteer Jam (1976)
*Saddle Tramp (1976)
*Whiskey (1977)
*High Lonesome (1977)
*Midnight Wind (1977)
*Volunteer Jam III and IV (1978)
*Million Mile Reflections (1979)
*Volunteer Jam VI (1980)
*Full Moon (1980)
*Volunteer Jam VII (1981)
*Windows (1982)
*A Decade of Hits (1983)
*Me and The Boys (1985)
*Powder Keg (1987)
*Homesick Heroes (1988)
*Simple Man (1989)
*Christmas Time Down South (1990)
*Renegade (1991)
*All-Time Greatest Hits (1993)
*America, I Believe In You (1993)
*The Door (1994)
*Super Hits (1994)
*Same Ol' Me (1995)
*Steel Witness (1996)
*The Roots Remain (1996)
*Blues Hat (1997)
*By The Light Of The Moon (1997)
*Fiddle Fire: 25 Years of the CDB (1998)
*Tailgate Party (1999)
*Volunteer Jam/Classic Live Performances: Volume
One (1999)
*Volunteer Jam/Classic Live Performances: Volume
Two (1999)
*Road Dogs (2000)
*Live! (2001)
*How Sweet The Sound: 25 Favorite Hymns and Gospel
Greats (2001)
*Redneck Fiddlin' Man (2002)
*A Merry Christmas To All (2002)
*Freedom and Justice for All (2003)
*A Carolina Christmas Carol (2003)
*Essential Super Hits (2004)
*Songs From The Longleaf Pines (2005)

==External links==
*http://www.charliedaniels.com Official website
*http://www.cdbfan.com Fan website