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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 6, 2020 12:02:49 GMT -5
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RNH
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Post by RNH on Jul 6, 2020 14:40:43 GMT -5
R.I.P. to the great Charlie Daniels!  I was fortunate to see him perform live at Camp Casey back in 2009! Glad I did! He was a friend to all service members with free concerts at various military bases for decades! He and his band loved doing them! Maybe the Devil is in Georgia (debatable!) but the Rock and Roll Heaven now has a fiddler to add to its ensemble! |
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Post by mrjukebox on Jul 6, 2020 18:36:39 GMT -5
Wish I could've seen Charlie in concert-He certainly excelled at playing the fiddle.
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Post by trekkielo on Jul 6, 2020 19:41:24 GMT -5
May Charlie Daniels rest in peace!  My all-time favorite song by his own band...  The Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia (#3 AT40, 1979) |
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Post by trekkielo on Jul 6, 2020 19:44:01 GMT -5
Mario Andretti recently said in an interview that he knew he'd made it into pop culture upon hearing his name in this first song to mention him, remembers clearly while on the way to Riverside, California, just landed in LA on 405 fairly late at night, Charlie Daniels knows me! Uneasy Rider (#9 AT40, 1973) |
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Post by trekkielo on Jul 6, 2020 19:47:25 GMT -5
The South's Gonna Do It (#29 AT40, 1975) The song talks about Southern pride and discusses how the South is "gonna do it again". The lyrics refer to several Southern rock bands and musicians: Grinderswitch The Marshall Tucker Band Lynyrd Skynyrd Dickey Betts (guitarist with Allman Brothers Band) Elvin Bishop ZZ Top Wet Willie Barefoot Jerry Charlie Daniels Band The first line in the song is also a play on Grinder's Switch, Tennessee, the fictional hometown of Grand Ole Opry star Minnie Pearl. The song uses a clever play on words to promote Southern rock music. The notion that "the South shall rise again" was a familiar sentiment and rallying cry for disaffected Southern whites after the American Civil War. The song co-opts that sentiment, but uses the statement to celebrate Southern rock acts contemporary to the song itself. The "it" that the South is going to do again, it is implied, is that the South would produce further popular Southern rock bands. Daniels in fact bristled at more nefarious interpretations of what the "it" was. When the Ku Klux Klan used the song as background music for radio commercials for a 1975 rally in Louisiana, Daniels told Billboard magazine, "I'm d**n proud of the South, but I sure as hell am not proud of the Ku Klux Klan. ... I wrote the song about the land I love and my brothers. It was not written to promote hate groups." |
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Post by 1finemrg on Jul 7, 2020 4:52:12 GMT -5
Own a Grinderswitch 45 (Redwing) because of "The South Is Gonna To Do It Again". Never could find a Barefoot Jerry 45.
Always liked Charlie and the CDB. Let's not forget his work with Bob Dylan an "Nashville Skyline" and all the Volunteer Jams he hosted.
RIP Charlie. You will be missed.
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I was fortunate to see him perform live at Camp Casey back in 2009! Glad I did! He was a friend to all service members with free concerts at various military bases for decades! He and his band loved doing them! Maybe the Devil is in Georgia (debatable!) but the Rock and Roll Heaven now has a fiddler to add to its ensemble!
