#THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA SONGSTER FREE#

1 country single and Top 10 pop hit from 1979 in which Mr. His plucky attitude reached new heights in “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” a No. “If you don’t like the way I’m livin’/You just leave this long haired country boy alone.”.

#THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA SONGSTER FREE#

Daniels asserted in a gruff drawl on the chorus of “Long Haired Country Boy” (1975), which unabashedly extolled the virtues of free speech and marijuana. “I ain’t askin’ nobody for nothin’/If I can’t get it on my own,” Mr. He also produced albums for the Youngbloods, including the group’s 1969 folk-rock touchstone, “Elephant Mountain.”īut his greatest acclaim came as the leader of the Charlie Daniels Band, a country-rock ensemble that hosted the Volunteer Jam, the freewheeling Southern music festival, established in 1974, that featured Roy Acuff, Stevie Ray Vaughn, James Brown and the Marshall Tucker Band.įormed in 1971, the Charlie Daniels Band earned a reputation early on for recording material of an outspoken countercultural bent, much of it written by Mr.

Daniels made his first mark as a session musician in the late 1960s and early ’70s, playing guitar, bass, fiddle and banjo on Nashville recordings by Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr and Leonard Cohen. From, a New York Times obit by Bill Friskics-Warren headlined “Charlie Daniels, Who Bridged Country and Rock, Dies at 83: He was a singer, songwriter, bandleader and a blazing fiddler on hits like ‘The Devil Went Down to Georgia'”:

The devil went down to georgia songster