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  1. #1
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    Charlie Daniels Passes.

    Music star Charlie Daniels died today of a stroke. He was 83..

  2. #2
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    Had no idea he was from Wilmington, NC.
    Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."

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    Damn. God's speed, Charlie.

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    Hope "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" wasn't an autobiographical story. (yes, I know he won)

    R.I.P.

    Wherever you are, they just got a darn fine fiddle player.

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    I used to deliver to his old home in Gulf, which is near Goldston. He graduated from Chatham Central high. I met him at the airport once when I was picking my wife up from a trip to Buffalo. Got his autograph, nice fella..

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    Quote Originally Posted by dudog84 View Post
    Hope "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" wasn't an autobiographical story. (yes, I know he won)

    R.I.P.

    Wherever you are, they just got a darn fine fiddle player.
    FWIW, he was a pretty religious guy.

    Not that such is determinative. But he was a man of deep faith as I understand it.

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    I'm really developing a dislike for 2020 ...

    It is a shame that he is not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Doesn't appear that he has even been nominated.

    Rock & Roll heaven just got one hell of a fiddle player.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BD80 View Post
    I'm really developing a dislike for 2020 ...

    It is a shame that he is not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Doesn't appear that he has even been nominated.

    Rock & Roll heaven just got one hell of a fiddle player.
    He had his one crossover hit, which I wouldn't really call Rock & Roll. Did he have more? To be included in the R&RHOF (which has lots of issues in its own right), acts are judged not on a song, but 20 years after their first album dropped. Did he have a whole album that was R&R?
    Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."

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    Long Haired Country Boy was always my favorite. RIP Charlie.
    Bob Green

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Green View Post
    Long Haired Country Boy was always my favorite. RIP Charlie.
    Does that describe you, Bob? Before, during, or after your time in the service.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dudog84 View Post
    Does that describe you, Bob? Before, during, or after your time in the service.
    Last time Bob showed up at tailgate, even I was tempted to tell him that he needed a haircut.
    Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."

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    Quote Originally Posted by dudog84 View Post
    Does that describe you, Bob? Before, during, or after your time in the service.
    Quote Originally Posted by CameronBornAndBred View Post
    Last time Bob showed up at tailgate, even I was tempted to tell him that he needed a haircut.
    You should see me now, my last haircut was in early February.
    Bob Green

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Green View Post
    Long Haired Country Boy was always my favorite. RIP Charlie.
    Grew up with Uneasy Rider and Wooley Swamp, also! Fun tunes.
    "That young man has an extra step on his ladder the rest of us just don't have."

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    Quote Originally Posted by CameronBornAndBred View Post
    He had his one crossover hit, which I wouldn't really call Rock & Roll. Did he have more? To be included in the R&RHOF (which has lots of issues in its own right), acts are judged not on a song, but 20 years after their first album dropped. Did he have a whole album that was R&R?
    He is in the Country Music Hall of Fame, which seems more appropriate.
    Hard at work making beautiful things.

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    He had several songs that got considerable airplay on rock stations. Uneasy Rider, In America, Legend of Wooly Swamp, Devil Went Down To Georgia, Long Haired Country Boy, South's Gonna Do It Again, Still In Saigon.

  16. #16
    Charlie Daniels story (long). This guy from NJ goes to college in Harrisonburg VA. Never heard of CD Band. 4 years later fraternity low balls student org. to work setup and cleanup at campus gym and concert venue. As fraternity president I end up on stage during live packed show. Crowds trying to get on stage with bottles of Jack Daniels. I help security and keep the bottles. After the show I get to go to the locker room/dressing room, bring a couple of bottles and get to meet the man himself. Couldn’t have been funnier or nicer. Was a fan ever after, ever since.

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