Charlie Daniels Band December 14, 2008
Graciously underwritten by Robert Hernreich
One of the Great Founders of American Music
Pioneering country music star Charlie Daniels is known for his fiery fiddle playing and his band’s down-home fusion of hard-core country and edgy Southern rock. Since forming in 1970, the Charlie Daniels Band has created an enormous library of music that defies the boundaries of any one genre.
The band’s discography includes dozens of albums, many of them certified gold, platinum and triple platinum. Meanwhile, hits like “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” “In America,” “Uneasy Rider,” “The South’s Gonna Do It,” “Long Haired Country Boy,” “Still in Saigon” and “The Legend of Wooley Swamp” continue to be sung around campfires and popularized over the airwaves and on film.
The band has collected an impressive array of accolades over the years. Among the honors are numerous Grammy Awards and nominations, Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, Christian Country Music Association Awards, Country Music Association Awards and many others.
Charlie Daniels’ résumé includes recording sessions with artists as diverse as Bob Dylan, Flatt & Scruggs, Pete Seeger, Mark O’Conner, Leonard Cohen, Ringo Starr and Johnny Cash. In 1998, Charlie Daniels received the Pioneer Award from the Academy of Country Music, and drew congratulatory messages from former U.S. Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. Most recently, Daniels was inducted into the world-famous Grand Ole Opry in January 2008.
With an unerring instinct for the universal ties that bind people together and an equal abhorrence for the intolerance and fear that do the opposite, Charlie Daniels has kept the specifics of his cultural heritage as the soul of his musical style. Daniels’ music represents both an outlaw spirit and a symbol of American values.
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