I'm certainly not a fan of country music (though some bluegrass suits my tastes) I noted with regret that:
"Charlie Daniels, the country music icon famous for performing the
ubiquitous song “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” died at 83 years old
on July 6, according to a statement from the Country Music Association.
The Tennessean reported
the cause of death as a hemorrhagic stroke. He began his career in the late ’60s as a
session musician in Nashville, playing guitar and bass on records by Bob
Dylan and Leonard Cohen, among others. As Daniels began releasing his
own music, he also played fiddle for the Marshall Tucker Band and Hank
Williams Jr. He found his biggest hit, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,”
in 1979, on the Charlie Daniels Band’s album
Million Mile Reflections."
