Country music rabble-rouser and fiddler Charlie Daniels, who everyone knows of his classic “Devil Went Down to Georgia,” has died at age 83.
A report from his publicist said the Country Music Hall of Famer died Monday at a hospital in Hermitage, Tennessee after doctors said he had a stroke.
He had experienced what was described as a mild stroke in January 2010 and had a heart pacemaker implanted in 2013 but proceeded to perform.
Daniels, a singer, guitarist, and fiddler, started as a session musician, even playing on Bob Dylan’s “Nashville Skyline” sessions. Beginning in the early 1970s, his five-piece band toured endlessly, sometimes doing 250 shows a year.
Luckily I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Daniels and cover his last and final tour here in Austin at the HEB Center along with my fellow NFTP photojournalist Michael Mullenix.
Photo By: Tracy Fuller (www.bloggingphotoninja.com) Photo By: Tracy Fuller (www.bloggingphotoninja.com)
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