Charlie Daniels....

Charlie Daniels was born in Wilmington, North Carolina.  In his teens, he was already a skilled musician. And he formed a band…which mostly played rock and roll. In the early 60s, he was working as a session musician in Nashville.  He married his wife Hazel in 1964 and they had a son, Charlie Daniels Junior.

He worked as a session musician on albums by Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen…

In the 1970s, he worked on country and Southern Rock music, and he had his biggest hit, the Devil went Down to Georgia.  It’s a brilliant fiddle song where the Devil and a young man have a fiddling contest…. the song was a huge crossover hit and appeared on the sound track of the film Urban Cowboy.

He began to perform gospel songs and produced several gospel albums and enjoys country sports like hunting.  He also likes fishing and snow mobiling…and has a farm in Mount Juliet, Tennessee.