The Charlie Daniels Band
Like the State of Texas, Charlie Daniels is partly Western and partly Southern. His signature “bullrider” hat and belt buckle, his lifestyle on the Twin Pines Ranch (a boyhood dream come true), his love of horses, cowboy lore and the heroes of championship rodeo, Western movies, and Louis L’Amour novels, identify him as a Westerner. The son of a timberman and a Southerner by birth, his music - rock, country, bluegrass, blues, gospel - is quintessentially Southern. In fact, even his bent for all things Western is Southern, because his attire, his lifestyle and his interests are historically emblematic of Southern working class solidarity with the “lone cowboy” indMdualism of the American West.
It hasn’t been so much a style of music, but more the values consistently reflected in several styles that has connected Charlie Daniels with millions of fans. For decades, he has steadfastly refused to label his music as anything other than “CDB music,” music that is now sung around the fire at 4-H Club and scout camps, helped elect an American President, and been popularized on a variety of radio formats.
Like so many great American success stories, The Charlie Daniels saga begins in rural obscurity. Born in 1936 in Wilmington, North Carolina, he was raised on a musical diet that included Pentecostal gospel, local bluegrass bands, and the rhythm & blues and country music emanating respectively from Nashville’s 50,000-watt megabroadcasters WLAC and WSM.
He graduated from high school in 1955 and soon enlisted in the rock ‘n’ roll revolution ignited by Mississippian Elvis Aaron Presley. Already skilled on guitar, fiddle and mandolin, Daniels formed a rock ‘n’ roll band and hit the road.
While enroute to California in 1959 the group paused in Texas to record “Jaguar,” an instrumental produced by the legendary Bob Johnston, which was picked up for national distribution by Epic. It was also the beginning for a long association with Johnston. The two wrote “It Hurts Me,” which became the B side of a 1964 Presley hit. In 1969, at the urging of Johnston, Daniels moved to middle Tennessee to find work as a session guitarist in Nashville.
Among his more notable sessions were the Bob Dylan albums of 1969-70 Nashville Skyline, New Morning, and Self Portrait. Daniels produced the Youngbloods albums of 1969-70 Elephant Mountain and Ride the Wind, toured Europe with Leonard Cohen and performed on records with artists as different as Al Kooper and Marty Robbins.
Daniels broke through as a record maker, himself, with 1973’s Honey In the Rock and its hit hippie song “Uneasy Rider.” His rebel anthems “Long Haired Country Boy” and “The South’s Gonna Do It” propelled his 1975 collection Fire On the Mountain to Double Platinum status.
Following stints with Capitol and Kama Sutra, Epic Records signed him to its rock roster in New York in 1976. The contract, reportedly worth $3 million, was the largest ever given to a Nashville act up to that time. In the summer of 1979 Daniels rewarded the company’s faith by delivering “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” which became a Platinum single, topped both country and pop charts, won a Grammy Award, became an international phenomenon, earned three Country Music Association trophies, became a cornerstone of the Urban Cowboy movie soundtrack and propelled Daniel’s Million Mile Reflections album to Triple Platinum sales levels.
The album’s title was a reference to a milestone in The Charlie Daniels Band’s legendary coast to coast tours. Including two drummers, twin guitars, and a flamenco dancer, the CDB often toured more than 250 days a year and by this time had logged more than a million miles on the road. On the Million Mile Reflections Tour, transported in a convoy of busses and gleaming black tractor-trailer rigs - a show that stopped traffic all over the country - the band now included a full horn section, back-up singers, a troupe of clog dancers and sometimes a gospel choir. By 1981, the Charlie Daniels Band had twice been voted the Academy of Country Music’s Touring Band of the Year.
Full Moon, issued in 1980, became Daniels’ third Platinum album. Simple Man (1989) is also Platinum while A Decade of Hits (1983) is Triple Platinum, and Windows (1982), Saddle Tramp (1976), and Midnight Wind (1977) are Gold. He earned a Dove Award from the Gospel Music Association in 1994 for The Door, and a 1997 CMA Nomination for his remake of “Long Haired Country Boy” featuring John Berry and Hal Ketchum. Amazing Grace: A Country Salute to Gospel, a compilation album including Daniels’ “Kneel at the Cross,” garnered a 1995 Grammy Award. In 1996 he was honored with a boxed set of his classics. His By the Light of the Moon: Campfire Songs & Cowboy Tunes (1997), Christmas Time Down South (1990) and Blues Hat(1997) albums added further layers to his multi-faceted style.
Daniels’ annual Volunteer Jam concerts, world-famous musical extravaganzas that served as a prototype for many of today’s annual day- long music marathons, always featured a variety of current stars and heritage artists and are considered by historians as his most impressive contribution to Southern music. Among the artists “Jam Daddy” has hosted at 16 of these mega musical samplers are Roy Acuff, Don Henley, Tanya Tucker, Amy Grant, Leon Russell, Billy Ray Cyrus, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, James Brown, Duane Eddy, Pat Boone, The Outlaws, Dwight Yoakam, Steppenwolf, Bill Monroe, Exile, The Judds, Orleans, Willie Nelson, the Ailman Brothers, Link Wray, Ted Nugent, Billy Joel, the Marshall Tucker Band, Solomon Burke, Little Richard, B. B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eugene Fodor, Woody Herman, and Bobby Jones and the New Life Singers.
“I used to say, ‘I’m not an outlaw; I’m an outcast,” says the Grammy Award winning star. “When it gets right down to the nitty gritty, I’ve just tried to be who I am. I’ve never followed trends or fads. I couldn’t even if I tried. I can’t be them; I can’t be anybody but me.”
When you hear a classic Charlie Daniels Band performance like “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” you hear music that knows no clear genre. Is it a folk tale? A southern boogie? A country fiddle tune? An electric rock anthem? The answer is, “yes” to all of that and more. And the same goes for “In America,” “Uneasy Rider,” “The South’s Gonna Do It,” “Long Haired Country Boy,” “Still in Saigon,” “The Legend of Wooley Swamp,” and the rest of a catalog that spans more than 35 years of record making and represents more than 18 million in sales.
His resume includes recording sessions with artists as diverse as Bob Dylan, Flail & Scruggs, Pete Seeger, Mark O’Connor, Leonard Cohen, Ringo Starr and Johnny Cash. His songs have been recorded by Elvis Presley and Tammy Wynette. His tounng legend has been documented by ABC Newsmagazine 20/20. In 1985 he published a collection of short stories, The Devil Went Down to Georgia peopled with the same kind of characters and tall tales as his songs.
In April 1998, top stars and two former Presidents paid tribute to Daniels when he was named the recipient of the Pioneer Award and the Academy of Country Music’s annual nationally televised ceremonies.
“In his time he’s played everything from rock to jazz, folk to western swing, and honky-tonk to award-winning gospel, former President Jimmy Carter said. “in Charlie’s own words, ‘Let there be harmony. Let there be fun and 12 notes of music to make us all one.’.”
“Charlie’s love of music is only surpasses by his love of people, especially the American people,” former President Gerald Ford said. “For almost five decades, he’s traveled this land from coast to coast singing about the things that concern the American people. Tonight, the Academy of Country Music’s Pioneer Award is presented to a supremely talented compassionate and proud American, and a fair to middlin’ golfer, too!”
With an unerring instinct for the universal ties that bind people together and an equal abhorrence for the intolerance and fear that do the opposite, Charlie Daniels has kept the specifics of his cultural heritage as the soul of the CDB music that has impacted lives of everyday people everywhere.
“It’s purely American music with something for everyone,” he said. “At least that’s what I’ve hope for in my 40-plus years in music.”
The Charlie Daniels Band
Discography
YEAR ALBUM L&BEL PRODUCT#
2003 Freedom and Justice for All Blue Hat! Audium AUD-CD 8188
2002 A Merry Christmas To All Blue Hat / Audiuni AUD-CD-8 163
2002 Redneck Fiddlin’ Man Blue Hat / Audium AUD-
2002 The Ultimate Charlie Daniels Band Epic / Legacy 86456
2001 How Sweet The Sound Sparrow SPD 51908
2001 The Live Album Blue Hat / Audium AUD-8133
2000 Road Dogs Blue Hat BLH 9711
Volunteer Jam-Live Performance. Vol 2 Blue Hat BLH 9705
1999 Volunteer Jam-Live Performance. Vol 1 Blue Hat BLH 9704
1999 Tailgate Party Blue Hat BLH 9702
1998 Fiddle Fire: 25 Years of The CDB Blue Hat BLH 9703
1997 By The Light Of The Moon Sony Wonder 63414
1997 Blues Hat Blue Hat BLH 9701
1996 The Roots Remain Sony! Epic 65023
1996 Steel Witness Sparrow 493
1995 Same 01’ Me Capitol Nashville 32008
1994 Super Hits Sony / Epic 64182
1994 The Door Sparrow i
1993 America I Believe In You Liberty 80477
1993 All Time Greatest Hits Sony / Epic 53743
1991 Renegade Sony / Epic 46835
1990 Christmas Time Down South Sony / Epic 46103
1989 Simple Man ** Sony / Epic 45316
1988 Homesick Heroes Sony / Epic 44324
1987 Powder Keg Sony / Epic 40760
1985 Me And The Boys Sony / Epic 39878
1983 A Decade Of Hits *** Sony / Epic 38795
1982 Windows * Sony! Epic 37694
1981 Volunteer Jam VII Sony / Epic 37178
1980 Full Moon ** Sony / Epic 36571
1980 Volunteer Jam VI Sony! Epic 36438
1979 Million Mile Reflections Sony / Epic 35751
1978 Volunteer Jam III and IV Sony / Epic 35368
1977 Midnight Wind * Sony/ Epic 34970
1976 High Lonesome Sony / Epic 34377
1976 Saddle Tramp * Sony / Epic 34150
1976 Volunteer Jam Capricorn
1975 Nightrider Sony / Epic 34402
1974 Fire On The Mountain Sony / Epic 34365
1974 Whiskey Sony! Epic 34664
‘973 Uneasy Rider Sony / Epic 34369
1972 Te John, Grease and Wolfman Sony / Epic 34665
1971 Charlie Daniels Capitol
* Certified Gold by the LLA.A.
** Certified Platinum by the R.LA.A..
Certified Multi Platinum by the LLA.A.
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THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND
Chronology
1936: Charles E. Daniels born October 28th in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Early 40’s: Charlie bounces between North Carolina and Georgia, goes coon- and deer-hunting with his father, and writes his first story: a ghost story about a wooley swamp.
Circa 1953: Charlie has a bluegrass band and writes his first song. “The first thing I wrote that was recorded was in the late 50’s but it was nothing really big.”
1959: Charlie has by now been in several rock and roll and R & B groups. The longest stretch is with the Jaguars (1959-1967). They record an instrumental single in Ft. Worth, Texas. It’s called “Jaguar.”
Early 60’s: Charlie, raised on country, a fan of bluegrass, and an adept rock and roll singer and guitarist, discovers jazz on a visit to Washington, D.C. The Ja9uars begin to play Louis Prima shuffles, “Mack the Knife,” and “some really jazzy stuff.”
1964: Back to country and rock. Daniels co-writes “It Hurts Me,” and it’s recorded by Elvis Presley and put on the flip side of “Kissin Cousins.”
1967: Daniels is invited by producer Bob Johnston, who’s joined CBS Records in Nashville, to try Music City. He agrees. “I was playing a lot of clubs, and I wanted to get off the road.”
He begins work as a session player. After being told by producers that he plays too loud, he joins Johnston on Bob Dylan’s Nashville Skyline “It was the first time I felt at home in Nashville. You experienced a lot of freedom from Dylan. He liked what I did, and I was very much into what he was doing.”
Charlie and his fiddle go on to other sessions and other stars, among them Ringo Starr and Marty Robbins.
1969: Charlie tries his hand as a producer, and when Johnston gets
overloads with work, he suggests Daniels to the Youngbloods. He
produces Elephant Mountain and Ride the Wind the latter recorded live at
a rock festival in Louisiana and at the Fillmores East and West.
1970: Daniels cuts his first solo album, Charlie Daniels (Capitol
Records). He forms the Charlie Daniels Band and joins the first wave of Southern rock bands.
The CDB joins Kama Sutra Records and records Te John, Grease and
Wolfman named after the band members’ nicknames. “Grease” was
keyboard player Joel DiGregorio, still with the CDB. Daniels was just “Charlie” on occasion, “the Fat Boy.”
1972: Their next album, Honey in the Rock includes “Uneasy Rider,”
a talking bluegrass number which becomes a hit the following year,
reaching #9 in Billboard in August 1973.
1974: The CDB issues Way Down Yonder which will be reissued in
1977 by Epic as Whiskey
Recording Eire on the Mountain including “The South’s Gonna Do It Again,” which hits the Top 30, and “Long Haired Country Boy,” which peaks at #56. Daniels decides to record several songs live in concert and chooses an auditorium in Nashville. In a nod to the Volunteer State, the CDB calls the concert the Volunteer Jam and invites friends from the Allman Brothers Band, the Marshall Tucker Band, and others to join them. “We had such a good time, we decided we should do this once in a while.”
“Once in a while” becomes almost every year. Before its first run ends in
1986, the jams are broadcast nationally and internationally (by the Voice of
America); guests range the world of music and include Willie Nelson, Ted
Nugent, Ray Price, Roy Acuff, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Crystal Gayle, James
Brown, Emmylou Harris, Amy Grant, George Thorogood, Kris
Kristofferson, Little Richard, Tammy Wynette, and Boxcar Willie, along with
Alabama, Black Oak Arkansas, the Dirt Band, the Oak Ridge Boys, and in
1986, a reunion of the Alimans.
1975: CDB issues the Night Rider album
A second Volunteer Jam in Murtreesboro, Tennessee, will result in an album, Volunteer Jam
1976: With the album, Saddle Tramp, the CDB joins Epic Records. Daniels aligns himself with presidential candidate Jimmy Carter. “I didn’t think he had a chance. When I was asked about doing something for him, he was ‘Jimmy Who?’ But he called me one night. I read some clips about him, and I felt good about him. We’d come out of a catastrophic political time... Carter personified honesty and goodness.” When “Jimmy
Who?” becomes President Carter, the CDB are among performers at his inaugural.
1977: The CDB issues two albums, High Lonesome and Midnight Wind
1978: More Volunteer Jams result in a two-record set, Volunteer Jam Ill and IV
1979: Million Mile Reflections yields “Devil Went Down to Georgia,” which reaches #1 and for which Daniels wins the Grammy for Best Country Vocal.
1980: The CDB appears in the film, Urban Cowboy another Jam brin9s another VJ (VJ) album. CDB’s Full Moon includes “In America,” Daniels’ response to the Iran hostage crisis and the renewed patriotism it ignites. The record reached #11 in Billboard. “We’d just come through the sixties and the backlash of Watergate and Vietnam,” says Charlie. “I got the feeling that patriotism was almost dead. But then they took the hostages. I travel a lot, and everywhere I went, people were saying, ‘How dare that S.O.B. take our people! We oughta go over there....’ I never thought I’d see somebody standing up and saying ‘Damn, we’re America man. How dare they do that!”
The CDB also hit the charts with “The Legend of Wooley Swamp.”
1981: Yet another VJ and album (
1982: In the Windows album, the CDB’s version of Dan Daley’s “Still in Siagon” reaches #22.
1983: The CDB issues a compilation, The Charlie Daniels Band-A Decade of Hits
1985: Me and the Boys album is released.
1987: The Volunteer Jams have continued non-stop since 1977, but
a combination of business and financial difficulties--along with the time and
energy required of the CDB staff--take their toll, and the 13th will be the lastS
for a few years.
The CDB releases its Powder Keg album.
1988: Homesick Heroes is issued out of CBS/Nashville and results in a Top 10 record on the country charts: “Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country
Blues.”
1990: Simple Man is issued and rises to #2 on the country charts. The album is ignited by the title single, in which a simple man (“with simple attitudes,” Daniels explains) calls for the lynching of drug-dealers and slow deaths by the way of gators and snakes for murders, child abusers and rapists. The song gets Daniels onto numerous talk shows, where he’s asked to explain himself. He wrote the song, he says, “out of frustration.” He’s read about a scandalous case in which a child was killed by her stepfather. “I know how I feel about it; I know what I’d like to do. Some of it’s kind of tongue-in-cheek; it’s a knee-jerk reaction. I don’t really want to take people out and leave them in the swamps.... But violent crimes--that’s what that song’s about.”
Daniels is also the subject of a long-form music video, Charlie Daniels:
Homefolks and Highways
The CDB released its first holiday album, Christmas Time Down South 1991: Renegade is released, and Daniels announces the return of the Volunteer Jam, in May in Nashville. “We took a three and a half year look at it and feel that we re ready to do it again,” says Daniels. As always, the VJ will provide a stage for a wide mix of music, including B.B. King, Steppenwoif, Tanya Tucker, and, of course, The Charlie Daniels Band.
1992: Charlie Daniels signs a new record deal with Liberty Records. Daniels says, “I have been a long time admirer of Jimmy Bowen. I like his style; we both kind of came to Nashville as renegades.. .Jimmy runs a different kind of record company - an ener9etic record company... Jimmy wants the Charlie Daniels Band to sound like us and be what we are. That means an awful lot to us.” Bowen says, “Charlie Daniels is a trend setter and an innovator. We at Liberty are proud to have him recording for us and look forward to a long association.”
1993: Liberty Records releases the first Charlie Daniels album in
Apnl, titled, America. I Believe In You and commences on a tour. Dickies
workwear, out of Ft. Worth, Texas signs Daniels as a celebrity spokesman
for the second year and announces their involvement as a sponsor of the
1993 tour.
1994: Charlie Daniels releases his first Christian album on Sparrow Records, titled, The Door Produced by Ron Griffin, the project centers around material written by Charlie and the band, and includes a co-written song with Grammy Award winner Steven Curtis Chapman. “Sunday Morning,” the first single release to Christian Country radio takes the #1 slot on the Positive Country chart. A video is released for the single “Two Out Of Three”, and is voted Video of the Year for the Christian Country
Music Association. Charlie and Chris LeDoux celebrate Christmas, cowboy-style, through song and story at Charlie’s home, Twin Pines Ranch where “A Wrangler Cowboy Christmas” television special is taped for TNN with Charlie, Chris, Baxter Black, Diamond Rio and Linda Davis.
1995: Charlie Daniels is named Cashbox Magazine’s Best Positive Christian Country Performance by a Secular Artist for 1994. He receives a Dove Award and a Grammy nomination for his Christian album, The Door and inks another contract to host the nationwide talent search television show, Charlie Daniels’ Talent Roundup, on TNN: The Nashville Network. A tour is set with Charlie, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Travis Tritt.
1996: Charlie’s second gospel album Steel Witness is released. The Charlie Daniels Band is a featured performer in the very successful
“Southern Thunder Tour” with Hank Williams Jr. and The Marshall Tucker Band.
Charlie celebrates his 60th birthday with Volunteer Jam XVI - the first-ever
Acoustic Jam - at The Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville, TN.
Guest performers include John Berry, David Ball, Tracy Byrd, Billy Ray
Cyrus, Cledus T. Judd, Tracy Lawrence, David Lee Murphy, BlackHawk,
Lorrie Morgan, Jimmy Hall and Victoria Shaw. Proceeds from the Jam
Benefit TPAC’s Humanities Outreach Program (H.O.T.) and the T.J. Martell
Foundation for cancer research.
Charlie Daniels: The Roots Remain box set is released. The three-CD set features some of Daniel’s classics hits including “The Devil Went Down To Georgia,” “Long Haired Country Boy” and “Uneasy Rider.”
1997: Charlie releases Blues Hat the bands first album on Charlie’s new label, Blue Hat Records. The first single features a remake of The CDB smash, “Long Haired Country Boy” with special guests John Berry and Hal Ketchum and is nominated for the Country Music Association’s Vocal Event of the Year.
Sony Wonder releases Charlie’s first children’s album, By The Light Of The Moon: Campfire Songs and Cowboy Tunes
1998: Charlie was presented The Pioneer Award by the Academy of Country Music. It is presented annually to an outstanding individual who has enhanced country music and contributed to its growth. Garth Brooks along with congratulatory messages from two American Presidents, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford and music by Travis Tritt and Marty Stuart made it
a big surprise for Daniels.
The Charlie Daniels Band releases Fiddle Fire /25 Years of The Charlie Daniels Band on Blue Hat Records. The first single “Texas” includes guest appearances by Lee Roy Parnell and Ray Benson on both the recording and the video.
1999: The Charlie Daniels Band releases Tailgate Party ,released on Blue Hat Records is a collection of songs that have inspired the band over the years.
Charlie takes his historical Volunteer Jam on the road for the first time for Volunteer Jam Tour ‘99 with friends Molly Hatchet, The Marshall Tucker Band and for several dates, Hank Williams Jr. A charity partnership was developed between Charlie and Habitat for Humanity and several houses were built white on tour.
Charlie receives the prestigious Living Legend Award from The Music City News/TN N Awards show.
2000: The Charlie Daniels Band releases Road Dogs on Blue Hat Records, a collection of all new material.
The Volunteer Jam Tour goes on the road again for the 2nd year, with Hank Williams Jr., Little Feat & Edgar Winter
2001: The Charlie Daniels Band rocks amphitheatres on the Volunteer Jam Tour 2001 with 38 Special, The Dickey Betts Band and newcomer Trent Summar and the New Row Mob. Sponsored by Diamond Cut Jeans, the CDB tour kicked off in Charlotte, North Carolina and wrapped up in Hartford, Connecticut.
2001: Charlie Daniels opens museum in downtown Nashville. The museum is filled with memorabilia and photo’s chronicling Charlie’s career including photos with presidents, celebrities from the sports, music, film, television and famous cowboy worlds. These items plus more grace the walls of the museum that is situated on the hottest street in Nashville overlooking the Cumberland River. Charlie’s prestigious Grammy, CMA, ACM, Playboy and other awards fill the energetic gallery that exemplifies Charlie’s personality. Famed guitarists and Daniels’ friends the late Ronnie Van Zant and Toy Caidwell, have their guitars displayed throughout the museum.
Blue Hat / Audium releases the Charlie Daniels Band’s first live album,
LIVE in the band’s 30+ year history. The 17 cut disc features classics “The
Devil Went Down To Georgia”, “Elizabeth Reed”, The South’s Gonna Do It
Again”, and “Long Haired Country Boy”, to name a few.
Charlie Daniels is inducted into his hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina’s prestigious Walk of Fame.
October 28, 2001, Charlie turns 65 and celebrates with the success of his single, “This Ain’t No Rag, It’s A Flag”. The song was recorded in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee after the September 11th tragedy. The demand for the single virtually shut down Daniels’ website.
2002: The CDB releases How Sweet The Sound-25 Favorite Hymns and Gospel Greats marking Daniels’ third release on Sparrow Records and his first since his successful prostate cancer surgery in November (2001). The double disc contains 25 favorite hymns and offers a special bonus of the single “This Ain’t No Rag, It’s A Flag.”
The CDB releases Redneck Fiddlin’ Man on Blue Hat I Audium Records. Charlie Daniels raises his patriotic voice once again with 12 songs including “The Last Fallen Hero” and special appearances by Garth Brooks on “Waco” and Travis Tritt on “Southern Boy Not only was Travis Tritt a co-writer with Daniels on “Southern Boy”, he also appeared in the video.
The CDB releases A Merry Christmas To All on Blue Hat / Audium
Records. The album includes Christmas classics and originals that
Daniels wrote. The CDB promoted the new Christmas album with a
Christmas tour in December.
2003: freedom and Justice for All is the new release on Blue Hat I Audium Records. Regnery Publishers releases Charlie Daniels’ hardback book, Ain’t No Rag (Freedom. Family and he Flag)
The Charlie Daniels Band
VIDEOGRAPHY
1990- Homefolks & Highways
Cabin Fever Entertainment
BOOKS
2003- Ain’t No Rag-Freedom, Family and the Flag
Regnery Publishing, Inc.
2002- Charlie Daniels Soapbox Collection CDB, Inc.
1985-The Devil Went Down To Georgia Peachtree Publishers
AWARDS & HONORS
NARAS Grammy Award
1996-Best Southern Gospel,
Country Gospel, or Bluegrass
Album---Amazing Grace: A
Country Salute to Gospel
1979-Best Performance by a
Group or Duo “Devil Went
Down To Georgia”
NARAS Grammy Award Nomination
2003-Best Southern, Bluegrass or Country
Gospel Album-How Sweet The Sound
1997-Best Southern Gospel,
Country or Bluegrass Album--
Amazing Grace 2: A Country
Salute to Gospel
1996- Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel, or Bluegrass Gospel Album--Steel Witness
1995- Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel or Bluegrass Gospel Album--The Door
GMA (Gospel Music Association) Dove Award 1997-Country Recorded Song of the Year-- “Somebody Was Praying For Me”
1995-Country Album of the Year-The Door
GMA (Gospel Music Association) Award
Nominption
1997-Country Album of the Year--
Steel Witness
1995-Country Recorded Song of the Year “Sunday Morning”
Country Recorded Song of the Year “Two Out of Three”
CCMA Award
(Christian Country Music Association)
1994-Video of the Year--”Two Out Of Three”
1994-Song of the Year--”Sunday Morning”
1995-Mainstream Country Artist of the Year Musician of the Year
CCMA Award Nomination
2002-Musician of the Year
CMA (Country Music Association) 1980-Instrumental Group of the Year
1980-Founding Presidents Award
1979-Single of the Year--”Devil Went
Down To Georgia”
1979-Instrumental Group of the Year
1979-Instrumentalist of the Year
CMA (Country Music Association) Nomination 1997-Vocal Event of the Year “Long Haired Country Boy” with The CDB, John Berry, and Hal Ketchum
Academy of Country Music Awards 1998-Pioneer Award
1981-Touring Band of the Year
1980-Touring Band of the Year
Academy of Country Music Awards Nomination
2003-Vocal Event of the Year-”Southern Boy” with
Travis Tritt
Nashville Music Awards
1998-Reissue-Roots Remain
The Charlie Daniels Band
BMI Awards
1983-Millionaire Award
“Devil Went Down To Georgia”
1981-Country Writer’s Award Most Performed Song oftheYear
“In America”
1980-Most Performed Songs of the Year “In America”
“Mississippi”
“Devil Went Down To Georgia”
1979-Pop Writer’s Award Most Performed Song of the Year
“Devil Went Down To Georgia”
1977-Country Writer’s Award
“Wichita Jail”
Music City News Awards
1980-Band of the Year-The Charlie Daniels Band
TNN Music City News Awards 1999-Living Legend
Cashbox Year-End Awards
1994-Best Positive Country Performance
By A Secular Artist
1981-Sountrack of the Year
Urban Cowboy
1980-Vocal Group of the Year, Country,
Country / Pop Crossover Single of the Year,
Group/Duo
“Devil Went Down To Georgia”
Album of the Year, Group-Full Moon
Country Vocal Group of the Year
1979 Progressive Artist of the Year
Additional Honors
1998-IFCO Tex Ritter Award
1998-International Entertainment Buyers Association Touring Band of the Year
1997-Music City News-Gospel Voice Magazine Christian CountryArtist of the Year
Additional Honors 1998-IFCO Tex Bitter Award
1998-International Entertainment Buyers Association Touring Band of the Year
1997-Music City News-Gospel Voice Magazine Christian CountryArtist of the Year
1993-Country Music Radio Seminar
Award Winner
Humanitarian of the Year
1993-Toys for Tots’ Man of the Year
1981-Scotty Award Winner Presented to The Charlie Daniels Band reaching platinum & gold status for product
Record World Year-End Awards
1980-Top Country Crossover Group
Top Progressive Group
1978-Top Progressive Group
1976-Top Progressive Group
Parents’ Choice Gold Award
1997-By The Light oldie Moon
Best of 1997 Child Magazine
1997-By The Light of the Moon
Best of 1997 Sesame Street Parents Magazine 1997-By The Light of the Moon
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