The Ultimate Charlie Daniels Band

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Nashville studio musician Charlie Daniels was 34 when he recorded his first barely noticed solo album in 1970. Soon afterward, he organized the Charlie Daniels Band and found his niche with a durable mixture of blazing Southern rock, country, and plainspoken lyrics that resonated with both pop and country fans. This 30-song retrospective, a lite version of the box set The Roots Remain, encompasses the band's work for Kama Sutra and Epic from 1973 to the early '90s. It features Daniels's first chart hit, the 1973 hippie vs. redneck novelty "Uneasy Rider," and early CDB favorites "The South's Gonna Do It Again" and "Long-Haired Country Boy." While covering nearly every high point (his 1980 hit "In America" is one notable omission), the collection also adds obscure singles and album cuts. Daniels's Southern and blue-collar pride struck a powerful chord in people, as numbers like the Vietnam vet anthem "Still in Saigon" and "American Farmer" resonated deeply in the heartland. For those who don't need the box, this is the place to start. --Rich Kienzle

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Average customer rating: 1974 was a water-shed moment... great set fiddle all around!!! WHERE IS "IN AMERICA"??? Mandatory for CDB Fans!

The Ultimate Charlie Daniels Band Charlie Daniels Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Southern Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Freedom and Justice For All The Essential Super Hits of the Charlie Daniels Band Anthology: The First 30 Years A Decade of Hits The Collection: Fire on the Mountain/Million Mile Reflections/Full Moon ASIN: B000066AUU Release Date: 2002-05-21

Tracks:

1. Then, Now And Until The End
2. Uneasy Rider
3. The South's Gonna Do It Again
4. Trudy
5. Long Haired Country Boy
6. Texas
7. Wichita Jail
8. Sweet Louisiana
9. Saddle Tramp
10. High Lonesome
11. Midnight Wind
12. The Devil Went Down To Georgia
13. Reflections
14. The Legend Of Wooley Swamp
15. Carolina (I Remember You)

Tracks:

1. Still In Saigon
2. Running With That Crowd
3. American Farmer
4. Cowboy Hat In Dallas
5. Midnight Train
6. Simple Man
7. (What This World Needs Is) A Few More Rednecks
8. Renegade
9. Talk To Me Fiddle
10. Layla
11. Drinkin' My Baby Goodbye
12. Honky Tonk Avenue
13. Play Me Some Fiddle
14. Funky Junky
15. Boogie Woodie Fiddle Country Blues

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Nashville studio musician Charlie Daniels was 34 when he recorded his first barely noticed solo album in 1970. Soon afterward, he organized the Charlie Daniels Band and found his niche with a durable mixture of blazing Southern rock, country, and plainspoken lyrics that resonated with both pop and country fans. This 30-song retrospective, a lite version of the box set The Roots Remain, encompasses the band's work for Kama Sutra and Epic from 1973 to the early '90s. It features Daniels's first chart hit, the 1973 hippie vs. redneck novelty "Uneasy Rider," and early CDB favorites "The South's Gonna Do It Again" and "Long-Haired Country Boy." While covering nearly every high point (his 1980 hit "In America" is one notable omission), the collection also adds obscure singles and album cuts. Daniels's Southern and blue-collar pride struck a powerful chord in people, as numbers like the Vietnam vet anthem "Still in Saigon" and "American Farmer" resonated deeply in the heartland. For those who don't need the box, this is the place to start. --Rich Kienzle

Customer Reviews:

1974 was a water-shed moment..........2007-05-14

When the '72 hit "Uneasy Rider" hit the radio airwaves, few people knew that the big, fiddle-playing, cowboy hat-wearing Wilmington, NC born-Mt. Juliet, TN-dwelling hell-raiser was the session musician that played the guitar intro to Bobby Bare's "Detroit City" or was the session guitarist on Bob Dylan's "Nashville Skyline" album. Yes...just before Bobby Bare's legendary vocal lines become audible in his biggest hit (aside from from later "Marie Laveau")there was that unknown Nashville sessions guitarist named Charlie Daniels doing that now signature guitar intro to the big radio hit, "Detroit City". Later he would record his own lps under his own name, Capitol Record's eponymous "Charlie Daniels", Kama Sutra's "TE John, Grease, and Wolfman", "Honey in the Rock (which yielded "Uneasy Rider"), and the breakthrough "Whiskey", to such Southern Rock staples as "Fire on the Mountain", "Nightrider", to Epic's "Saddle Tramp", "High Lonesome", "Midnight Wind", "Million Mile Reflections", "Full Moon", "Windows", and "Me & the Boys", and then others as the late 80's gave way to change that would forever alter the face of what we lovingly came to know as "Southern Rock".
The Charlie Daniels Band, for this intent and purpose, was legitimately comprised of dual drummers Fred Edwards and Don Murray, bass player Charlie Hayward, key-boardist/pianist/vocalist Joel "Taz" DiGregorio, guitarist/vocalist Tommy Crain, and then the big man himself, Charlie Daniels, on guitar, fiddle, and lead vocalist/band leader par excellance.

Southern Rock is attributed as being a product of the work of The Allman Bros. Band, beginning in 1969 and continuing until the deaths of Duane Allman and Berry Oakley a year later, but when Southern Rock became a genre recognised by the American mainstream by 1974, it was the big, cowboy hat-wearing, fiddle-playing Mt. Juliet, Tennessean who championed the cause - and he was more than willing to share the spot-light, giving due credit in his songs to such little known acts (in 1974 anyway) as Wet Willie, Barefoot Jerry, The Marshall Tucker Band, calling Richard Betts (Allman Bros. legendary guitarist) by name and referencing the red Gibson ES-335 guitar Betts played early on, and of course there's the opening line "The train at Grinderswitch is running right on time" which references Dru Lombar's band "Grinderswitch" (which,incidentally, is the town Grand Ol' Opry Star Minnie Pearl hailed from), and "people down in Florida can't be still when ol' Lynyrd Skynyrd's pickin' down in Jacksonville".
If you're a fan of this music, this is a fantastic place to start as it covers the high spots and finer moments of the career of one of Ol' Mother Dixie's proudest sons, Charlie Daniels and the band.
It's such a shame that "High Lonesome", "Midnight Wind", and some others in the CDB catalogue, are out of print because those titles contain some of the brightest moments in CDB history.
Check out this collection and search out any other Charlie Daniels product you can find if you want a real taste of what Southern Rock was really all about. Hippies were wearing cowboy hats, cowboy boots, and turning on to Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. "Billy the Kid", "Damn Good Cowboy", "Texas", "Caballo Diablo", "Midnight Wind", "Birmingham Blues", "Saddle Tramp", Tommy Crain's fantastic "Cumberland Mtn. #9" and "Lonesome Boy From Dixie", and Taz's "New York City Kingsize Rosewood Bed" are the stuff Southern music was made of..."Ain't it good to be alive and be in Tennessee?" Yeah...I was born and raised in the Volunteer State and I have to agree...it certainly WAS good in those days.

great set.......2007-03-15

I was a semi fan of CDB back in the 70's, but never bought any of his records, except for a few singles and the comp "A Decade of Hits". That CD has some good songs on it, but being a CD made in the 80's, the sound quality is bad and there were blatant song omissions like "Trudy" and "Reflections". I bought this set hoping for something to better represent CDB in my collection, and it delivered. The sound quality is a vast improvement and it's a much more complete set, though I also wonder why "In America" is not included. I was never familiar with any post 1980 CDB music (been more of a hard rock fan since 1980), and I'm surprised at how much of disc 2 that I like even more than the 70's stuff. I'm an instant fan of songs like "Cowboy Hat In Dallas", "Drinkin' My Baby Goodbye" and "Simple Man", despite not being a big fan of country music. I will be adding a few of his 80's CDs to my collection for sure. I recommend this Compilation.

fiddle all around!!!.......2005-02-12

there's an amazing band behind this album they have traditinol fiddle music and i love alot of these songs. i went to a kalan concert and he sang devil went down to georgia and he sang it proudly i love that song. so if anyone doesnt have this album go and buy it like now!!

WHERE IS "IN AMERICA"???.......2004-03-08

How can this be the "Ultimate" collection when it omits one of Charlie's biggest country and pop hits? Thanks, but I'll stick with his 14-track "Essential" disc. That's all I have to say about this. Thank you

Mandatory for CDB Fans!.......2002-07-10

This CD set should be mandatory for anyone who considers himself as true CDB aficionado. I came across this CD and bought it. I am glad that I did! I had forgotten just how much I loved Charlie Daniel's music. This set contains the great ones I use to listen to: "Uneasy Rider", "The South's Gonna Do It Again", "Trudy", Long Haired Country Boy", "High Lonesome" just to name a few, and several new ones (for me at least) that I love just as much if not even more: "Carolina (I Remember You)", "Still In Saigon", "American Farmer", "Midnight Train", "Talk To Me Fiddle"... just to name a few of these newer ones.
I was a real fan of CDB, Marshall Tucker Band, Pure Prairie League back in the day. I am defiantly going to show my grown boys what real Southern Rock n' Roll really is... Great music for the American soul!

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Ultimate Collection Charlie Band Daniels Manufacturer: Epic ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000676WM Release Date: 2004-06-20

Tracks:

1. Then, Now And Until The End
2. Uneasy Rider
3. South's Gonna Do It Again
4. Trudy
5. Lond Haired Country Boy
6. Texas
7. Wichita Jail
8. Sweet Louisiana
9. Saddle Tramp
10. High Lonesome
11. Midnight Wind
12. Devil Went Down To Georgia
13. Reflections
14. Legend Of Wooley Swamp
15. Carolina (I Remember You)
16. Still In Saigon
17. Running With That Crowd
18. American Farmer
19. Cowboy Hat In Dallas
20. Midnight Train
21. Simple Man
22. (What This World Needs Is) A Few More Rednecks
23. Renegade
24. Talk To Me Fiddle
25. Layla
26. Drinkin' My Baby Goodbye
27. Honky Tonk Avenue
28. Play Me Some Fiddle
29. Funky Junky
30. Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Double Disc Collection that Showcases the L'il Band from North Carolina that Could...and They Certainly have Over the Years. Their Peak Came When They Released "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" in the 1970's, which Completely Conquered the Pop Charts.

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