# On Charlie Daniels **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 6, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214 "2015-09-06T23:04:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214/1 "2015-09-06T23:04:16Z")
> **[Country music legend rips Washington in Facebook rant | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/26/politics/country-music-legend-rips-congress-in-facebook-rant/)** > > Country music legend Charlie Daniels delivered a blistering screed against Congress and the Obama administration via Facebook on Tuesday night. Can you believe this utter nonsense? I mean, really. I’ve never read such claptrap in all of my life. Charlie Daniels is a country music “legend?” Ha! ---
**Author:** ![turner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@turner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turner)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214/2 "2015-09-06T23:16:12Z")
um…yeah, he kinda is. 80s and 90s, pretty big ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214/3 "2015-09-06T23:22:34Z")
First: Great username/topic combo. Second: I tend to separate a person’s talent from their opinions. I can appreciate Daniels’ talent without necessarily agreeing with or endorsing his comments. Just like I can enjoy a Tom Cruise movie without letting his membership in Scientology affect me. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214/4 "2015-09-07T00:03:19Z")
Here you are: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Fi13NxmjqLI/hqdefault.jpg "Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down To Georgia (ORIGINAL VERSION)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi13NxmjqLI) ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214/5 "2015-09-07T00:23:17Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > First: Great username/topic combo. > > Second: I tend to separate a person’s talent from their opinions. I can appreciate Daniels’ talent without necessarily agreeing with or endorsing his comments. Just like I can enjoy a Tom Cruise movie without letting his membership in Scientology affect me. Oh, there were some kind of, what, political comments from Daniels in the article? I stopped reading after I saw the headline. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214/6 "2015-09-07T00:27:54Z")
Charlie Daniels has been a walking pile of right-wing bumper stickers for 20 years. He’s the Southern-fried version of Ted Nugent. But yes, he’s a country music legend. And if there were a Southern Rock Hall of Fame, he’d be in there too. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214/7 "2015-09-07T00:31:02Z")
Moving this discussion to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214/8 "2015-09-07T00:31:27Z")
Southern rock legend? Absolutely. Country music? I don’t think so. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214/9 "2015-09-07T00:37:01Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > Southern rock legend? Absolutely. Country music? I don’t think so. Flaming wingnut moran? Most definitely. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214/10 "2015-09-07T00:39:50Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > Southern rock legend? Absolutely. Country music? I don’t think so. Man, I’ve heard a lot of criticism of Charlie Daniels, but “insufficiently country” is a new one. ---
**Author:** ![bubba001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f17d59/32.png) [@bubba001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubba001)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214/11 "2015-09-07T00:50:30Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > [http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/26/politics/country-music-legend-rips-congress-in-facebook-rant/](http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/26/politics/country-music-legend-rips-congress-in-facebook-rant/) > > Can you believe this utter nonsense? I mean, really. I’ve never read such claptrap in all of my life. Charlie Daniels is a country music “legend?” Ha! My wife and I saw him back in the 90’s, at the county fair. I had heard his “Devil went to Georgia” tune but not much else. We gat there early, and watched his band set up. We had front row seats. The band was openly drinking alcohol, and one guy actually fell off the stage. After the band started, I wasn’t impressed, Charlie Daniels music is basic 1972 southern rock, played extremely loud. Pretty generic. At one point, Daniels talked about the evils of drugs, and that all drugs dealers should be killed, preferably by chaining them to stumps, among alligators. Meanwhile, his blearly eyed band looked like poster for “Take me to rehab”. He has had the same bs for years. That’s what his audience wants. Btw, lots of confederate flag stuff at his concerts, posters, t shirts, whatever. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214/12 "2015-09-07T00:51:10Z")
I’ve always preferred his brother Jack. ---
**Author:** ![bubba001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f17d59/32.png) [@bubba001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubba001)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214/13 "2015-09-07T00:52:39Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > Charlie Daniels has been a walking pile of right-wing bumper stickers for 20 years. He’s the Southern-fried version of Ted Nugent. > > But yes, he’s a country music legend. And if there were a Southern Rock Hall of Fame, he’d be in there too. “southern fried version of Ted Nugent” Pretty much sums it up for me. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214/14 "2015-09-07T00:56:18Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Man, I’ve heard a lot of criticism of Charlie Daniels, but “insufficiently country” is a new one. Who’s criticizing? ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214/15 "2015-09-07T01:46:43Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > Charlie Daniels has been a walking pile of right-wing bumper stickers for 20 years. He’s the Southern-fried version of Ted Nugent. > > But yes, he’s a country music legend. And if there were a Southern Rock Hall of Fame, he’d be in there too. This. For me, he’s a local who does donate time and money to special projects in the county (there’s even a city park named for him where he lives.) He’s a talented musician, but when it comesto politics, don’t touch him with a ten foot pole. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214/16 "2015-09-07T03:17:02Z")
Funny that the guy who wrote “Uneasy Rider” is a right-wing loon these days. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214/17 "2015-09-07T03:29:14Z")
It’s irrational, but I’ve disliked him ever since he appeared in some terrible commercial a few years back. It was set in a restaurant, and he grabbed the house violinist’s violin to show him “how it was done”, and played some fast, artless crap with the most self-satisfied look I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214/18 "2015-09-07T03:34:53Z")
He goes back way farther than his hits. He is a noted session guitar player. He was on New Morning by Dylan as well as others. Maybe this is in recognition of it all. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214/19 "2015-09-07T03:37:26Z")
Yeah, CD is a legend. _The Devil went down to Georgia_ was a pretty big hit. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214/20 "2015-09-07T03:41:40Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > Southern rock legend? Absolutely. Country music? I don’t think so. The country music establishment certainly disagrees with you. Charlie Daniels has had records on the country charts, won Country Vocal Grammy and BMI Country Awards, and is a member of the Grand Ole Opry. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-charlie-daniels/730214.md?page=2)