Charlie Daniels Band
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Charlie Daniels Band Biography
A talented and showy fiddler, Charlie Daniels and his band fuse
hardcore country with a hard-edged Southern rock boogie and blues. The
group -- which has had a rotating cast of musicians over the years --
has always been known for their instrumental dexterity, but they were
also notorious for their down-home, good-old-boy attitude; in the early
'80s, they became a virtual symbol of conservative country values.
Daniels and his band experienced the height of their popularity at the
end of the '70s and early '80s, but they remained a popular concert
attraction well into the '90s.
Daniels was born and raised in North Carolina, playing fiddle and
guitar in several bands during his teenage years. At the age of 21, he
decided become a professional musician, assembling an instrumental rock
& roll combo called the Jaguars. The group landed a recording
session for Epic Records in 1959 with Bob Johnson, who would later
become Columbia Records' leading folk and country producer. The record
didn't receive much attention, but the band continued to play and
Daniels continued to write songs. One of his originals, It Hurts Me,
was recorded by Elvis Presley in 1963. By the late '60s, it had become
clear that the Jaguars weren't going to hit the big time, so Johnson
recommended to Daniels that he move to Nashville to become a session
musician. Daniels followed the advice and became one of the most
popular fiddlers in Nashville. He played on several Bob Dylan albums --
Nashville Skyline, Self Portrait, New Morning, and Dylan -- as well as
Ringo Starr's 1970 record Beaucoups of Blues. He also became part of
Leonard Cohen's touring band in the late '60s and produced the
Youngbloods' Elephant Mountain album around the same time.
Daniels cut an album for Capitol Records in the early '70s that was
ignored. In 1972, he formed the Charlie Daniels Band, using the
Southern rock of the Allman Brothers as a blueprint. The band comprised
Daniels (lead guitar, vocals, fiddle), lead guitarist Don Murray,
bassist Charlie Hayward, drummer James W. Marshall, and keyboardist Joe
DiGregorio. The formula worked, and in 1973 they had a minor hit with
Uneasy Rider, which was released on Kama Sutra Records. In 1974, they
released Fire on the Mountain, which became a gold record within months
of its release; the album would eventually go platinum. Its successor,
1975's Nightrider, did even better, thanks to the Top 40 country hit
Texas. Saddle Tramp, released in 1976, became his first country Top
Ten album, going gold.
Throughout the mid-'70s, the Charlie Daniels Band pursued a Southern
rock direction. They were moderately successful, but they never had a
breakthrough hit either on the pop or country charts. By the late '70s,
Daniels sensed that the audience for Southern rock was evaporating, so
he refashioned the band as a more straightforward country band. The
change paid off in 1979 when the single The Devil Went Down to
Georgia became a number one hit, crossing over into the pop charts,
where it hit number three. The song was named the Country Music
Association's Single of the Year and helped its accompanying album,
Million Mile Reflections, become a multi-platinum success.
Daniels wasn't able to follow The Devil Went Down to Georgia with
another blockbuster single on the country charts, ironically, but he
had several rock crossover successes in the years following the success
of Million Mile Reflections: Full Moon (1980) went platinum and Windows
(1982) went gold. Although he continued to sell respectably throughout
the '80s, he didn't have a big hit until 1989's Simple Man, which went
gold. In the '90s, his records failed to chart well, although he
remained a popular concert draw. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music
Guide
Written by Stephen Thomas Erlewine