Tennessee to become a session musician. Daniels landed some incredibly high profile spots as a session musician working on the following four Bob Dylan albums: “Nashville Skyline”, “Self Portrait”, “New Morning” and “Dylan”. Daniels also acted as a session musician on Ringo Starr’...
Though chart success was scant for Daniels from the ’90s on, as he also branched out to record Gospel- and Christian-rooted albums, he remained a mainstream presence at award shows, on TV, in commercials, and in the music of a later generation of country acolytes. (Gretchen Wilson’s ...
Another track on the album is “You Gotta Serve Somebody,” a song that Daniels says has always spoke to him. “I’m a Christian, and I think Dylan hit a nerve with that one. When it comes down to it, you are going to serve somebody. There’s only two entities that you can serv...
“I can ask people where they are from, and if they say `Waukegan,′ I can say I’ve played there. If they say `Baton Rouge,′ I can say I’ve played there. There’s not a city we haven’t played in,” Daniels said in 1998. Daniels performed at White House, at the Super Bo...
Since Trump’s election, Daniels has mostly urged cautious optimism and openness to new policies, maybe having seen enough in his 80 years to not get too freaked out when his candidate doesn’t win. Or, like a certain variety of Christian, he feels pretty good about his chances ...
“not that I didn’t love it that way, because that’s the way I’ve learned each song, but I wanted to do it like CDB [Charlie Daniels Band] would do it. We don’t do the rest of our music like anybody else. I don’t know why we should do our Christian music that way.”...