The Charlie Daniels band is a long-running Country Rock band led by singer, guitarist and fiddle player Charlie Daniels. The other band members are Bruce Brown, Chris Wormer, Taz DiGregorio, Charlie Hayward and Pat McDonald. http://www.charliedaniels.com/theband.htm

Over the course of his 50+ year career, Daniels and his band have produced a number of hit albums and songs, including the now-classic 1977 single "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" which won Daniels a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance. Besides his music, he is also outspoken about his political and cultural beliefs, having been a vigorous defender of president George W. Bush and the war in Iraq and a major proponent of "Southern Pride".

The band's official website includes his "soapbox" where these views are expressed. http://www.charliedaniels.com/soapbox.htm He has also written numerous songs in protest to current world events and US political issues such as "In America" and "The South's Gonna Do It".

Charlie Daniels started writing, singing and playing the guitar and fiddle in the 1950s. He worked as a session musician forBob Johnston in Nashville throughout the 1960s often playing electric bass guitar for musicians such as Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Daniels

In 1971 he recorded his first solo album called "Charlie Daniels" and his first hit, "Uneasy Rider" was from the second album "Honey in the Rock". This song reached the Billboard Top 100. In 1975 the Fire on the Mountain collection hit the Double Platinum status and helped keep Daniels as a top recording artist throughout the 1970s.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Daniels

After Epic Records in 1976 with one of the biggest recording contracts of the time, reportedly worth $3 million, his hit single "Devil Went Down to Georgia" became a Platinum single, won the Grammy Award, became the soundtrack icon for Urban Cowboy and earned his Million Miles Reflection album triple Platinum status. Daniels continued to perform and record throughout the 1980s, as well as host and organise the annual Volunteer Jam concerts.http://www.charliedaniels.com/theband/bio-charlie.htm

In 1998 he was awarded the Pioneer Award and praised by presidents and musicians for his long association with country music. In 2008 he became a member of the Ole Opry. When accepting his membership he said “I pursued my dream in music and by the goodness of God have been able to have a wonderful career, which has spanned fifty years”.http://www.charliedaniels.com/theband/bio-charlie.htm http://www.opry.com/artists/index.html

• 1973: Uneasy Rider
• 1975: The South's Gonna Do It
• 1979: The Devil Went Down To Georgia
• 1980: In America
• 1980: The Legend Of Wooley Swamp
• 1982: Still In Saigon