10453 - THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND LIVE AT BILLY BOB'S TEXAS (2015)
THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND
''LIVE AT BILLY BOB'S TEXAS''
OCTOBER 16 2015
70:37
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1 Southern Boy 03:16
2 Drinkin' My Baby Goodbye 03:53
3 Tangled Up In Blue 04:18
4 The Legend Of Wooley Swamp 04:54
5 El Toreador 05:32
6 (What This World Needs Is) A Few More Rednecks 04:03
7 In America 03:46
8 Black Ice 15:01
9 Long Haired Country Boy 04:35
10 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight 03:30
11 Folsom Prison Blues 03:42
12 How Great Thou Art 04:28
13 The South's Gonna Do It (Again) 04:16
14 The Devil Went Down To Georgia 05:17
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ABOUT THE ALBUM
Gayle Thompson, theboot.com
The Charlie Daniels Band are releasing a new live DVD and CD.
Live at Billy Bob’s Texas will be released on October 16 by Smith Music Group.
The 14-track album and DVD, which were recorded on Feb. 20, 2105, include “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Drinking My Baby Goodbye” and several other hits, as well as exclusive behind-the-scenes footage with Daniels.
“When you record LIVE, you need to ignore the recording equipment and play for the people and that big old rowdy crowd,” Daniels says. “At Billy Bob’s Texas, that was easy to do.”
The 78-year-old country legend recently hosted his 40th anniversary Volunteer Jam at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. More than a dozen artists, including Wynonna Judd, Trace Adkins, Alabama, Montgomery Gentry, the Oak Ridge Boys, Lee Greenwood and Lee Roy Parnell, joined Daniels for the fundraiser, which raised money for the Predators Foundation and the Journey Home Project.
“It’s really something to see my music peers and friends come together this year to perform with little incentive other than to help raise funding and give back to those who have served,” Daniels says of the event. “Few sacrifices are greater than those of our U.S. military, so it makes me proud to have witnessed this event come together in such a big way in 2015. We as U.S. citizens can never repay military members and veterans for what they have [done] and continue to do for us, but I hope at least this concert can serve a small role in showing them our great appreciation.”
Artists including Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Gary Stewart, David Allan Coe, Pat Green, the Randy Rogers Band, Stoney LaRue and Charlie Robison, among others, have all recorded Live at Billy Bob’s Texas projects.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
A talented and showy fiddler, Charlie Daniels and his band fuse hardcore country with a hard-edged Southern rock, boogie, and blues. The group -- which has had a rotating cast of musicians over the years -- has always been known for its instrumental dexterity, but Daniels and company were also notorious for their down-home, good-old-boy attitude; in the early '80s, they became a virtual symbol of conservative country values. Daniels and his band experienced the height of their popularity at the end of the '70s and early '80s, but they remained a popular concert attraction well into the '90s.
Daniels was born and raised in North Carolina, playing fiddle and guitar in several bands during his teenage years. At the age of 21, he decided become a professional musician, assembling an instrumental rock & roll combo called the Jaguars. The group landed a recording session for Epic Records in 1959 with Bob Johnson, who would later become Columbia Records' leading folk and country producer. The record didn't receive much attention, but the band continued to play and Daniels continued to write songs. One of his originals, "It Hurts Me," was recorded by Elvis Presley in 1963. By the late '60s, it had become clear that the Jaguars weren't going to hit the big time, so Johnson recommended to Daniels that he move to Nashville to become a session musician. Daniels followed the advice and became one of the most popular fiddlers in Nashville. He played on several Bob Dylan albums -- Nashville Skyline, Self Portrait, New Morning, and Dylan -- as well as Ringo Starr's 1970 record Beaucoups of Blues. He also became part of Leonard Cohen's touring band in the late '60s and produced the Youngbloods' Elephant Mountain album around the same time.
Daniels cut an album for Capitol Records in the early '70s that was ignored. In 1972, he formed the Charlie Daniels Band, using the Southern rock of the Allman Brothers as a blueprint. The band was comprised of Daniels (lead guitar, vocals, fiddle), lead guitarist Don Murray, bassist Charlie Hayward, drummer James W. Marshall, and keyboardist Joe DiGregorio.
The formula worked, and in 1973 they had a minor hit with "Uneasy Rider," which was released on Kama Sutra Records. In 1974, they released Fire on the Mountain, which became a gold record within months of its release; the album would eventually go platinum. Its successor, 1975's Nightrider, did even better, thanks to the Top 40 country hit "Texas." Saddle Tramp, released in 1976, became his first country Top Ten album, going gold.
Million Mile Reflections Throughout the mid-'70s, the Charlie Daniels Band pursued a Southern rock direction. They were moderately successful, but they never had a breakthrough hit either on the pop or country charts. By the late '70s, Daniels sensed that the audience for Southern rock was evaporating, so he refashioned the band as a more straightforward country band. The change paid off in 1979 when the single "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" became a number one hit, crossing over into the pop charts, where it hit number three. The song was named the Country Music Association's Single of the Year and helped its accompanying album, Million Mile Reflections, become a multi-platinum success.
Daniels wasn't able to follow "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" with another blockbuster single on the country charts but, ironically, he had several rock crossover successes in the years following the success of Million Mile Reflections: Full Moon (1980) went platinum and Windows (1982) went gold. Although he continued to sell respectably throughout the '80s, he didn't have a big hit until 1989's Simple Man, which went gold. In the '90s, his records failed to chart well, although he remained a popular concert draw, a trend that continued through into the 21st century.
During the first decade of the new millennium, Daniels quietly transitioned from major labels to independents, releasing records on Blue Hat and Audium, garnering some headlines in 2003 with his pro-Iraq War anthem “This Ain’t No Rag, It’s a Flag,” a song popular enough to launch a spinoff book Ain’t No Rag. Two years later, Daniels established a long-running relationship with Koch in 2005 with Songs from the Longleaf Pines. Daniels’ albums for Koch ran the gamut from bluegrass to bluesy country-rock, punctuated with holiday collections and live records, or thematic compilations like 2010’s patriotic The Land That I Love. Daniels was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 2007.
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''LIVE AT BILLY BOB'S TEXAS''
OCTOBER 16 2015
70:37
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1 Southern Boy 03:16
2 Drinkin' My Baby Goodbye 03:53
3 Tangled Up In Blue 04:18
4 The Legend Of Wooley Swamp 04:54
5 El Toreador 05:32
6 (What This World Needs Is) A Few More Rednecks 04:03
7 In America 03:46
8 Black Ice 15:01
9 Long Haired Country Boy 04:35
10 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight 03:30
11 Folsom Prison Blues 03:42
12 How Great Thou Art 04:28
13 The South's Gonna Do It (Again) 04:16
14 The Devil Went Down To Georgia 05:17
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ABOUT THE ALBUM
Gayle Thompson, theboot.com
The Charlie Daniels Band are releasing a new live DVD and CD.
Live at Billy Bob’s Texas will be released on October 16 by Smith Music Group.
The 14-track album and DVD, which were recorded on Feb. 20, 2105, include “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Drinking My Baby Goodbye” and several other hits, as well as exclusive behind-the-scenes footage with Daniels.
“When you record LIVE, you need to ignore the recording equipment and play for the people and that big old rowdy crowd,” Daniels says. “At Billy Bob’s Texas, that was easy to do.”
The 78-year-old country legend recently hosted his 40th anniversary Volunteer Jam at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. More than a dozen artists, including Wynonna Judd, Trace Adkins, Alabama, Montgomery Gentry, the Oak Ridge Boys, Lee Greenwood and Lee Roy Parnell, joined Daniels for the fundraiser, which raised money for the Predators Foundation and the Journey Home Project.
“It’s really something to see my music peers and friends come together this year to perform with little incentive other than to help raise funding and give back to those who have served,” Daniels says of the event. “Few sacrifices are greater than those of our U.S. military, so it makes me proud to have witnessed this event come together in such a big way in 2015. We as U.S. citizens can never repay military members and veterans for what they have [done] and continue to do for us, but I hope at least this concert can serve a small role in showing them our great appreciation.”
Artists including Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Gary Stewart, David Allan Coe, Pat Green, the Randy Rogers Band, Stoney LaRue and Charlie Robison, among others, have all recorded Live at Billy Bob’s Texas projects.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
A talented and showy fiddler, Charlie Daniels and his band fuse hardcore country with a hard-edged Southern rock, boogie, and blues. The group -- which has had a rotating cast of musicians over the years -- has always been known for its instrumental dexterity, but Daniels and company were also notorious for their down-home, good-old-boy attitude; in the early '80s, they became a virtual symbol of conservative country values. Daniels and his band experienced the height of their popularity at the end of the '70s and early '80s, but they remained a popular concert attraction well into the '90s.
Daniels was born and raised in North Carolina, playing fiddle and guitar in several bands during his teenage years. At the age of 21, he decided become a professional musician, assembling an instrumental rock & roll combo called the Jaguars. The group landed a recording session for Epic Records in 1959 with Bob Johnson, who would later become Columbia Records' leading folk and country producer. The record didn't receive much attention, but the band continued to play and Daniels continued to write songs. One of his originals, "It Hurts Me," was recorded by Elvis Presley in 1963. By the late '60s, it had become clear that the Jaguars weren't going to hit the big time, so Johnson recommended to Daniels that he move to Nashville to become a session musician. Daniels followed the advice and became one of the most popular fiddlers in Nashville. He played on several Bob Dylan albums -- Nashville Skyline, Self Portrait, New Morning, and Dylan -- as well as Ringo Starr's 1970 record Beaucoups of Blues. He also became part of Leonard Cohen's touring band in the late '60s and produced the Youngbloods' Elephant Mountain album around the same time.
Daniels cut an album for Capitol Records in the early '70s that was ignored. In 1972, he formed the Charlie Daniels Band, using the Southern rock of the Allman Brothers as a blueprint. The band was comprised of Daniels (lead guitar, vocals, fiddle), lead guitarist Don Murray, bassist Charlie Hayward, drummer James W. Marshall, and keyboardist Joe DiGregorio.
The formula worked, and in 1973 they had a minor hit with "Uneasy Rider," which was released on Kama Sutra Records. In 1974, they released Fire on the Mountain, which became a gold record within months of its release; the album would eventually go platinum. Its successor, 1975's Nightrider, did even better, thanks to the Top 40 country hit "Texas." Saddle Tramp, released in 1976, became his first country Top Ten album, going gold.
Million Mile Reflections Throughout the mid-'70s, the Charlie Daniels Band pursued a Southern rock direction. They were moderately successful, but they never had a breakthrough hit either on the pop or country charts. By the late '70s, Daniels sensed that the audience for Southern rock was evaporating, so he refashioned the band as a more straightforward country band. The change paid off in 1979 when the single "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" became a number one hit, crossing over into the pop charts, where it hit number three. The song was named the Country Music Association's Single of the Year and helped its accompanying album, Million Mile Reflections, become a multi-platinum success.
Daniels wasn't able to follow "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" with another blockbuster single on the country charts but, ironically, he had several rock crossover successes in the years following the success of Million Mile Reflections: Full Moon (1980) went platinum and Windows (1982) went gold. Although he continued to sell respectably throughout the '80s, he didn't have a big hit until 1989's Simple Man, which went gold. In the '90s, his records failed to chart well, although he remained a popular concert draw, a trend that continued through into the 21st century.
During the first decade of the new millennium, Daniels quietly transitioned from major labels to independents, releasing records on Blue Hat and Audium, garnering some headlines in 2003 with his pro-Iraq War anthem “This Ain’t No Rag, It’s a Flag,” a song popular enough to launch a spinoff book Ain’t No Rag. Two years later, Daniels established a long-running relationship with Koch in 2005 with Songs from the Longleaf Pines. Daniels’ albums for Koch ran the gamut from bluegrass to bluesy country-rock, punctuated with holiday collections and live records, or thematic compilations like 2010’s patriotic The Land That I Love. Daniels was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 2007.
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