Whatever happened to Charlie Daniels? Here is his first hit, Uneasy Rider

He sure didn't sound like a repuke!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEDoeX7lTS0

I was just wondering what happened to him. The words in the song made it seem like he was just a good-ole "long-haired country boy" . I know he has joined the dark side, Must be too much Jack Daniels has rotted his brain.

I was a big fan until I heard about his political bend. :eyes:

Good to see you!


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in the day. Uneasy Rider and Ted Nugent's 'Great White Buffalo' are the 2 greatest liberal anthems ever performed by RW nutbags.

As well as producing the Youngbloods' excellent "Elephant Mountain" lp.

but his career as a one hit wonder started dying in the 1980s. Rather than just enjoy 15 minutes of fame built on the legacy of Ronnie Van Zant the only semi-talented hack returned to his Southern Roots and sucked up to the right wing jingoism which was in power. Plus, for his mid-life crisis, he got 'born again'.

"Daniels has never shied away from politics. "The South's Gonna Do It" had a mild message of Southern cultural identity within the Southern rock movement. Daniels was an early supporter of Jimmy Carter's presidential bid and performed at his January 1977 inauguration.

"In America" was a reaction to the 1979-1981 Iran Hostage Crisis; it described a patriotic, united America where "we'll all stick together and you can take that to the bank / That's the cowboys and the hippies and the rebels and the yanks." In contrast, "Still in Saigon" (written by Dan Daley) was an effective portrayal of the plight of the American Vietnam veteran ten years after the war; it was part of an early 1980s wave of attention to the subject,"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Daniels

Then began the long slide into darkness. Ronnie Van Zant ought to rise from his grave and kick Charlie Daniels in the ass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZWXC1nk-dI

(nice little video, I'd guess made as a student project or similar)


Like a few others, he appears to have crossed over to the Dark Side not just passively, as a consequence of maturation of some kind, but aggressively, as a consequence of going insane.