Charlie Daniels, the songwriter behind hits like "The Devil Went Down To Georgia," has died at the age of 83.
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Charlie Daniels, the Southern singer and songwriter behind hits like “The Devil Went Down To Georgia,” has died.
As Variety reports, the musician died of a hemorrhagic stroke in Hermitage, TN. He was 83.
Born in 1936, Daniels was renowned for his fusion of Southern rock, country, and bluegrass, as well as his mastery of the fiddle, which he flexed on albums by the Marshall Tucker Band and Hank Williams, Jr. He released his self-titled solo debut in 1971, and went on to release more than 30 studio albums throughout his long career, which saw him score subsequent hits with songs like “Uneasy Rider,” “In America,” and “Drinkin’ My Baby Goodbye.” In that time, he’s become a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Grand Ole Opry, and won a Grammy in 1979 for “The Devil Went Down To Georgia,” a thrilling and fiery slice of mythic revisionism that,
as we pointed out a few years back, carries some queasy undercurrents.
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