My understanding is he became quite the outspoken right-winger in recent years/decades, and I don't want to stir up trouble at this forum for that, but I just heard Charlie Daniels has died. He is of my parents' generation and I am sad to keep saying goodbye to people who were lucky enough to live into their eighties.
I remember when "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" was THE hit song of the summer of 1979, before the ELO song "Don't Bring Me Down" knocked it out of the number one position on Kasey Casem's Top 40 Countown.
Let's all toke on a number in memory of Charlie Daniels today.