How ’bout some Southern fried travelin’ music?
Yeah, I know Mr. Charlie Daniels would not approve of my politics. But I do approve of his music. Very much so. If this doesn’t put a bounce in your step on the way home this evening, I’m sorry I cannot help you.
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I'm Charlie Daniels
May 29th, 2009
4:44 pm
… and I approved this message.
George American
May 29th, 2009
5:16 pm
Yes, the South will rise again!
Maybe the secessionist movement will keep spread from Georgia and Texas to the rest of our brothers throughout the South.
The South would be a lot better off without the elitist northeast liberals and the adam-and-steve bankrupt left coasters.
I Rule You :-) / You Whine :-(
May 29th, 2009
5:16 pm
He’s hot for Sister Sarah, who can find fault with that?
The Devil went down to Georgia….
pat
May 29th, 2009
5:17 pm
If liking one’s politics were a criteria for liking music, I sure would be screwed. I prefer artists just shut the hell up and jam.
I Rule You :-) / You Whine :-(
May 29th, 2009
5:23 pm
Yes, I am tapping my foot-
Sarah Palin is the first politician to come along in decades who is truly one of “We The People”. The distance between Alaska and Washington, DC has never been more apparent than when you hear this lady speak.
Relaxed, confident, feminine and totally unafraid of the left-wing media that so terrifies the beltway bunch. She comes off as somebody who could live next door to you and very well come by to borrow a cup of sugar or offer to pick your kids up from school.
When you compare her to Barack Obama, he comes off as stiff, formal, arrogant and elitist, somebody who hides behind barricades and bodyguards, the kind of guy you’d never think of giving a hug to.-Charlie Daniels
Mrs. Godzilla
May 29th, 2009
5:28 pm
i love me some souther rock and roll…
If you’ll be my dixie chicken, I’ll be your Tennesse lamb!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y14BLP6PkIo
SOMALIDAWG
May 29th, 2009
5:28 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNcwemnrZzc
Mrs. Godzilla
May 29th, 2009
5:31 pm
Then again I can’t resist rust belt rock….a runaway American dream….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rGFfO5fUvE
jt
May 29th, 2009
5:35 pm
Atlanta in the 70’s. I was blessed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO3qXj_p4S0&feature=related
Ray
May 29th, 2009
5:36 pm
Ms G,
I don’t care much for your politics but I do like your taste in music. Great recording.
zip
May 29th, 2009
5:46 pm
It’s kind of funny, I first heard Charlie Daniels when I lived in Maine in the late 70’s and he was pretty well liked up there. I guess if you go far enough North, all roads lead South… Y’all have a nice weekend.
Mrs. Godzilla
May 29th, 2009
5:50 pm
jt
Mr. G and I saw them at Tribble Mill Park a couple of years ago.
Picnicing on the grass. Loved it.
Champagne Jam, Doraville….
georgian by birth floridian because I'm lucky
May 29th, 2009
5:51 pm
Daniels music is fine but his concerts are an experience all to themselves.
Hey, on a positive item from Wall Street, how about best 3 month run in stock market since 2007!
Does anyone know how much stimulus money, of the total stim. package, has been released? Are there any studies to show this or if the money released was the cause for the upturn?
jt
May 29th, 2009
5:54 pm
Mrs. G
I saw the Champaign Jams at Ga. Tech. I also saw CDB at the old world congress center in the late 70’s when Charlie got hit in the head with a bottle. He walked off the stage.
The is the best CDB song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agwps6hMQqU&feature=PlayList&p=236B89822B1EF09A&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=5
AmVet
May 29th, 2009
5:59 pm
Yeah, musically he was a force, and but one in the pantheon of great southern bands.
Daniels was an early supporter of Jimmy Carter’s presidential bid and performed at his January 1977 inauguration. “In America” was a reaction to the 1979-1981 Iran Hostage Crisis; it described a patriotic, united America where “we’ll all stick together and you can take that to the bank / That’s the cowboys and the hippies and the rebels and the yanks.”
Before he turned to the dark side.
DB, Gwinnettian
May 29th, 2009
6:01 pm
I give Mr. Daniels a bit of slack due to this epic poem/proto-rap I rather enjoyed back when it was a novelty hit.
I guess it was all downhill after that.
DB, Gwinnettian
May 29th, 2009
6:02 pm
Then again my very favorite debut-album band, Television, hails from south of the Mason Dixon line so I guess I’ve always liked “Southern Rock.”
Paul
May 29th, 2009
6:05 pm
GGB
[[Does anyone know how much stimulus money, of the total stim. package, has been released?]]
I believe it’s just over ten percent. And a surprising amount (per person) goes to states with low unemployment and a surprisingly low amount goes to some states with high unemployment.
‘course, advocates will say the money in the pipeline will be necessary to keep the recovery going.
But I’ll bet you Congress will not do a reeval to see if maybe they could reduce the amount appropriated, in light of changed circumstances.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 29th, 2009
6:07 pm
Good choice Jay and way to go on picking a version with the “old” band: Charlie on fiddle, Tommy Crain on lead guitar, Joel “Taz” DiGregorio om keyboards (a New Yorker by the way and still with Charlie), Charlie Hayward on bass and Don Murray and Fred Edwards on drums. Saw this lineup at tbe Dekalb College gym back in 1975.
And did y’all notice that the fiddle break there about 3:30 or so owes quite a bit to Glenn Miller and “In The Mood”? Charlie’s always been right eclectic in his music.
JT:
This was always my favorite ARS song. To think it was all recorded there at Studio One in Doraville back when Doraville was pretty much the way they described it in song. They were all good but man could Paul Goddard play bass or what?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_-D820hNUs&feature=related
jt
May 29th, 2009
6:12 pm
DB-
Television?
Are you talking about Daft Punk?
That’s what came up on you-tube.
@@
May 29th, 2009
6:13 pm
Howdy Hillbilly, where ‘ya been?
Chug-a-lug, Chug-a-lug
Makes ‘ya wanna holler heidi ho
Burns your tummy, don’tcha know
Chug-a-lug Chug-a-lug
NO! I’m not drinkin’. Been listening to country music, I have.
georgian by birth floridian because I'm lucky
May 29th, 2009
6:15 pm
Thanks Paul!
Jay did you see today were even White House Officials said the good judge could have used a better choice of words?
Just checking since you have proclaimed to know what she was thinking. Funny how those same officials NEVER said anything about you 106 of 110 judges were white males. Funny isn’t it, still think it would have went as well if she were white saying that about another race?
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 29th, 2009
6:17 pm
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I’ve decided just to limit my commenting to the music. I’m a whole bunch more interested in music than politics anyhow.
One of my favorite Charlie Daniels’ Band songs was “No Place To Go”, an 11:20 blues jam off the “Fire On The Mountain” album. If it’s on the web anywhere I haven’t been able to find it. I’ve still got the vinyl and the turntable though.
Paul
May 29th, 2009
6:17 pm
@@
[[NO! I’m not drinkin’.]]
and we could tell the difference, how?
jt
May 29th, 2009
6:18 pm
Whoever saw ARS back in the day probably saw these cats opening for them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi41K4zY8O4
My how times have changed.
DB, Gwinnettian
May 29th, 2009
6:20 pm
Are you talking about Daft Punk?
Hell no.
Television. The first rock band to play CBGBs (which stands, btw, for “Country, BlueGrass and Blues”) in NYC. Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell both hailed from Delaware.
If you’ve never heard Marquee Moon–both the album, and the title track itself–you really should.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 29th, 2009
6:24 pm
JT:
Never did get around to seeing Mother’s Finest but wish I had. A good straight ahead rock and roll band with some funk mixed in.
AmVet
May 29th, 2009
6:25 pm
Paul Hardcastle – Nineteen
DB, Gwinnettian
May 29th, 2009
6:27 pm
AmVet @ 6.25, that track may not be one for the ages, but were it not for its popularity I likely would not have been aware of that particular statistic.
(And it came up in conversation with my daughter not that long ago, actually.)
I Rule You :-) / You Whine :-(
May 29th, 2009
6:27 pm
Chill, y’all-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MSN82jU3sg
jt
May 29th, 2009
6:29 pm
DB
-
I remember now. They had a hardcore following. The Clash kept me from them.
I’ll pick that album up.
Paul
May 29th, 2009
6:29 pm
DB
Post downstairs for you.
jt
May 29th, 2009
6:33 pm
AmVet-
That’s powerful. Also, Something that the song doesn’t mention which was kinda wrong is the way ROTATIONS were done. INDIVIDUAL instead of UNITS.
If you went over there-GOOD JOB and thanks.
DB, Gwinnettian
May 29th, 2009
6:34 pm
Post downstairs for you.
Ah man, do I gotta?
I’m chillin’ to a re-formed Television, live in Brazil in 2005, doing Marquee Moon live. Maybe when it’s done.
One last thing about the band: I had a chance to sit down with Richard Lloyd, once, backstage. He showed me how to fret the opening riff to “See No Evil.” For which I should die a happy man, really, now that I think about it.
Mrs. Godzilla
May 29th, 2009
6:36 pm
OOOOOH, lokie what i found
this would keep a person busy all night
100 Greatest Southern Rock Songs
http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/best_songs-south.html
@@
May 29th, 2009
6:37 pm
I’m gonna miss you Hillbilly. You’re among the half dozen or so I read. A man of few words that say much.
Is this what you’re lookin’ for?
It’s not like anything I’ve heard Charlie do.
Paul:
I took a test yesterday…one NJ linked to. On the “Life Satisfaction” category, I sailed high above conservatives and liberals alike. I’m a natural.
Mrs. Godzilla
May 29th, 2009
6:39 pm
Here’s one for you natives….
Oh Atlanta
http://www.nutsie.com/song/Oh%20Atlanta/62344?artist_id=2903664&album_id=1105981
we’re off for sushi….y’all have a good time and be nice to each other.
Which is really the best?
DB, Gwinnettian
May 29th, 2009
6:39 pm
argh. didn’t close the tag. Here ’tis again, pt 1 of 2.
(yeah, a punk band has a 15-minute song. deal with it.)
Paul
May 29th, 2009
6:42 pm
DB
Naw, it’ll keep, no biggie, nothing that won’t keep for a few days.
@@
[[I sailed high above conservatives and liberals alike. I’m a natural.]]
Naturally high! ‘course, I’m listening to Abba so I understand completely.
DB, Gwinnettian
May 29th, 2009
6:42 pm
I’ve decided just to limit my commenting to the music. I’m a whole bunch more interested in music than politics anyhow.
I get that way sometimes too.
But if you ever do enter the political discussion fray again, as a guy to your left, I’ll just say that I always enjoyed your commentary and considered you one of those “keeps me honest” kind of conservatives.
DB, Gwinnettian
May 29th, 2009
6:47 pm
Naturally high!
Now you’ve got me jonesin’ for the late, great Curtis Mayfield (for whom my son, if that were in the cards, was going to be named.)
@@
May 29th, 2009
6:48 pm
I get that way sometimes too.
What’re the chances you could get that way more often?
J/K
RW-(the original)
May 29th, 2009
6:49 pm
DB,
Charlie Daniels had a real rap song too.
The Godfather of rap music, Charlie Daniels. Who saw that coming?
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 29th, 2009
6:50 pm
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Yes!!! That’s it. In the early days of the CDB it was a pretty eclectic mixture of rock, blues, and country with a little jazz thrown in. He moved more into country later and to me the music suffered a bit for it but hey a musician has bills to pay too. It’s great to make cutting edge music but if nobody is buying tickets or albums you won’t be doing it long.
DB:
Thanks for the kind words.
DB, Gwinnettian
May 29th, 2009
6:52 pm
RW, all I know is, Kid Rock would crap his pants if he had to open for CDB.
DB, Gwinnettian
May 29th, 2009
6:55 pm
Speaking of rap/country and cross-pollination: Did anyone know why accordions figure so prominently in all those Mexican/Central American tunes you might hear on the AM band?
(I do…)
Paul
May 29th, 2009
6:55 pm
RW-(the original)
Welcome back.
Just watched a fine Youtube clip of ‘Ray Wylie Hubbard on Redneck Mother.” Brings back fond memories of being at a table at a bar in Albuquerque where we sang it better than the band they had playing. And I was stone sober.
Talk about a life of contradictions -
RW-(the original)
May 29th, 2009
6:56 pm
Hillbilly Deluxe,
Here are a few turntables that you can use to convert that vinyl to mp3’s and make them portable for you.
Paul
May 29th, 2009
6:58 pm
DB
Okay, I’ll bite. Why do accordions figure so prominently?
RW-(the original)
May 29th, 2009
6:59 pm
I never quite viewed accordions the same way after Squeezebox came out.