No surprises here -- but the Charlie Daniels Band is never about surprise. As with most artists who define themselves according to established musical traditions, their goal...
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While tracks like the high-stepping "Ragin' Cajun" and bluesy "Lady In Red" are prime Charlie, the commercial pop strains of "Still In Saigon"...
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The song "Heaven Can Be Anywhere" and, to a lesser extent "Sugar Hill Saturday Night," save this from being just another Charlie Daniels record. No great shakes but fans...
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The disc that launched Daniels into superstardom with "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" often falters with otherwise unremarkable songs, including producer John...
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Epic reissued two of the Charlie Daniels Band's most popular albums from the late '70s, Million Mile Reflections and Full Moon, as a single cassette in the late '80s. For...
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The first album to follow Daniels's breakthrough disc Fire On The Mountain boasts some fine session work from Southern compatriots Toy Caldwell (Marshall Tucker Band) and...
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Charlie Daniels found his sound on 1974's Fire on the Mountain, but with its 1975 follow-up, Nightrider, he found the definitive lineup of the Charlie Daniels Band and, with...
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A fuller but less heartfelt sound permeates this disc, which glosses things up with horns and female backup singers on cuts like "Saturday Night U.S.A." and never...
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Charlie Daniels does it all, from dead-on country ballads to bluegrass to gospel to rock & roll. In this collection, Daniels puts on his rock & roll hat and delivers another...
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A countrified version of Eric Clapton's "Layla" and Charlie's trademark speak-sing on "Talk To Me Fiddle" provide a two of the more worthwhile moments on...
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This strong collection of Daniels songs rocks harder than usual, despite showing his soft side on "Little Folks" and "Fathers and Sons." Daniels practically gives a cultural...
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Saddle Tramp 1/1/1976, Yahoo! Music, Stephen Peters
Befitting the wayward nature of its title, Saddle Tramp serves up the Daniels tradition in a variety of settings, as evidenced by locale-specific cuts like "Wichita...
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Around the time the Charlie Daniels Band recorded the music that became 1976's Saddle Tramp, the group was experiencing its first wave of success, as both Fire on the...
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More than half of the songs from the Charlie Daniels Band's compilation A Decade of Hits were chart successes, especially the fiery "Devil Went Down to Georgia," a...
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This traces his career from early highpoints -- "Long Haired Country Boy," "The South's Gonna Do It, " "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" -- to the desperate attempts to...
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International Marketing Group's At His Best is a cheap, budget-line collection that contains adequate re-recordings of such Charlie Daniels songs as "The South's Gonna Do It...
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Four albums in, Charlie Daniels -- now fronting the Charlie Daniels Band -- finally found a way to not just synthesize his various influences, he found a way to streamline...
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"The Legend Of Wooley Swamp" rings true, and parts of "In America" evoke a countrified version of the rock band Kansas, but the plodding pop meter of...
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High Lonesome 1/1/1977, Yahoo! Music, Stephen Peters
A nice mix of boogie and ballads, with straightforward tracks ("Slow Song") and homages to the Volunteer State with Daniels's "Right Now Tennessee Blues"...
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Following Saddle Tramp by a matter of months, High Lonesome finds the Charlie Daniels Band retaining their focus on jamming -- meaning not just long solos and...
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Charlie and company return after a three-year hiatus with a better-than-average collection, whether they're singing for the red, white and blue on "American...
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Midtempo filler like "Midnight Wind" and the heavy-handed political posturing of "(What The World Needs Is) A Few More Rednecks" taint the mix, though...
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Super Hits is a budget-priced collection that features a handful of Charlie Daniels Band's biggest hits, but it doesn't provide a definitive retrospective, nor does it have...
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Back to Back provides ten songs, five each, from the Charlie Daniels Band and the Marshall Tucker Band on one disc. These Southern rock bands are similar enough that the...
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Same Ol' Me 1/1/1995, Yahoo! Music, Stephen Peters
Solid effort kicks into gear on the tell-it-like-it-is title track and the self-explanatory boot-stomper "My Baby Plays Me Just Like A Fiddle," then mellows out...
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On Same Ol Me, Charlie Daniels returned to the country and rock hybrid that sent him to the top of the charts in the late '70s and early '80s. As always, the album is a bit...
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In 1997, Columbia released Collection, which combined the current CD releases of Fire on the Mountain, Million Mile Reflections, and Full Moon in a cardboard slipcase box....
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Charlie spins a few for the kids on this engaging set, which includes a handful of originals alongside covers of Merle Travis's "Sixteen Tons" and Gene Autry's...
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Roots Remain is a three-disc box set covering the Charlie Daniels Band's entire career. Over the course of 45 songs, the box touches upon all of his hits -- including "The...
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Listen Up contains ten tracks by Charlie Daniels, including the original hit versions of "In America," "Let It Roll," and "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," recorded for Epic...
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Country-rock fiddler Charlie Daniels leads his band through two CDs of religious music on How Sweet the Sound: 25 Favorite Hymns and Gospel Greats. Backed by a full choir,...
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It could be argued that Epic/Legacy's 2002 double-disc compilation The Ultimate Charlie Daniels Band falls a little short of the title's claim, but then you'd have to...
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The Essential Charlie Daniels Band contains 16 well-chosen tracks taken from the band's mid-'70s to late-'80s recordings on Epic. All the basics are here, including the...
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Once you get around the fact that Koch's 2004 album The Essential Super Hits of the Charlie Daniels Band is in fact not a collection of original hit recordings but is...
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When Charlie Daniels released his eponymous debut in 1970, Southern rock was in its nascent stages. It had been a year since the Allman Brothers Band released their debut...
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