{"id":3115,"date":"2020-07-06T21:07:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T01:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/315music.com\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2020-07-06T21:13:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T01:13:53","slug":"southern-rock-and-country-music-legend-charlie-daniels-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/06\/southern-rock-and-country-music-legend-charlie-daniels-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Rock and Country Music Legend Charlie Daniels Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Southern rock icon Charlie Daniels passed away July 6, 2020, in Hermitage, TN, as the result of a stroke. Daniels was 83. He was born October 28, 1936, in Wilmington, NC, and was exposed to music through Pentecostal gospel, regional bluegrass bands, and the R&B and country music booming from Nashville’s 50,000-watt AM radio stations WLAC and WSM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He found early work as a Nashville session musician, including playing guitar and electric bass on three Bob Dylan albums, and on recordings by Leonard Cohen. He produced the 1969 album, Elephant Mountain<\/em>, by the Youngbloods. Daniels recorded his first solo album, Charlie Daniels<\/em>, in 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His first hit, the novelty song “Uneasy Rider”, was from his 1973 third album, Honey in the Rock<\/em>, and reached No.9 on the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniels’ famous fiddle playing can be heard on several of the Marshall Tucker Band’s early albums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1975, he had a top 30 hit leading the Charlie Daniels Band with the Southern rock anthem “The South’s Gonna Do It Again.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daniels won a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance in 1979 for his most famous song, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Veteran area musician Dave Liddy, singer and keyboard player for the Moss Back Mule Band, recalls their encounters with Charlie Daniels:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We met Charlie in the mid-\u201970s when WOUR management and on-air DJs brought him to hear the Moss Back Mule Band at the Oasis nightclub in Westmoreland. He sat in with us on several of his tunes that we covered. A year or two after that we opened a show for the CDB at SUNY Cortland and also played in front of him at an outdoor festival featuring the CDB at the Cedar Pines in Osceola.<\/p>Dave Liddy, Mossback Mule Band<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Daniels was a wildly popular performer in upstate New York throughout his career, appearing at the following venues: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Onondaga War Memorial, Palace Theater-Albany, SUNY Brockport, SUNY Cortland, Kleinhans Music Hall-Buffalo, SPAC, Rochester War Memorial,
Union College, SUNY Oswego, SUNY Plattsburgh, Proctor\u2019s Theater, Landmark Theater-Syracuse, Clarkson University, Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, Colonie Coliseum, Starlite Music Theater, Hunter Mountain,
Empire State Plaza, Finger Lakes Race Track, Turning Stone Casino, Tag\u2019s Summer Stage-Big Flats, Times Union Center, Lakeview Amphitheater,
St. Lawrence County Fair, and Darien Lake. Daniels appeared at least sixteen times at the New York State Fair, which may be a venue record for number of shows by a single artist. His last known area appearance was at del Lago Casino in Waterloo, New York on November 16, 2019.
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Southern rock icon Charlie Daniels passed away July 6, 2020, in Hermitage, TN, as the result of a stroke. Daniels was 83. He was born October 28, 1936, in Wilmington, NC, and was exposed to music through Pentecostal gospel, regional bluegrass bands, and the R&B and country music booming from Nashville’s 50,000-watt AM radio stations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,86,11,14],"tags":[4748,4749,4751,4750,2537],"class_list":["post-3115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bluegrass-country","category-news","category-news-desk","category-obituaries","tag-charlie-daniels","tag-charlie-daniels-band","tag-dave-liddy","tag-mossback-mule-band","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}