Charlie Daniels, Country Music Hall of Famer, Dies at 83
Country singer, songwriter and instrumentalist Charlie Daniels died Monday of a hemorrhagic stroke at 83.
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Charlie Daniels, country music icon and ardent conservative, dies at 83
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Benghazi ain't going away!
Some of my white, redneck friends used to wonder why I would never get hyped and dance with them along to "Devil Went Down To Georgia" when I lived in GA, and it was because my parents had told me about Charlie Daniels' racist bullshit when I was growing up in the mid 90s.
Imagine that being the last thing you can think of on your death bed. Delusional conspiracy theories and right-wing propaganda.
Devil Went Down to Georgia is an all time classic. Charlie Daniels is also a full-on MAGA type.
RIP, but excuse me if I won't be sending flowers.
RIP, but excuse me if I won't be sending flowers.
The world is better without him in it if these are the types of ideals he strives for during his lifetime.
Two Charlie Daniels stories:
- Daniels played the local fair about 10 years ago. My friends were already there for the rides and carnival food, so we grabbed a seat to listen while we ate our polish dogs and stuff. He starts the show, does a few of his songs, and then stops to go on this weird rant about a security alarm TV commercial. It went something like: "I was watching TV the other day and this commercial came on where this woman was home alone and a man kicked in her sliding glass door. The alarm goes off and she runs and hides and I got a little mad. 'Cause if I had my way, that woman would take out .57 magnum and blow that sucker away." Which was met with a cheering audience, while my friends just exchanged various versions of "What the fuck is he talking about."
- A friend of mine got taken to a more legit Daniels concert when he was a kid, and his dad knew someone at the venue and managed to get backstage. My friend described the experience: "Even as a 10 year-old, I remembered thinking, 'That sure is a lot of cocaine'." Apparently Daniels and his bandmates just had piles of coke on the table in the middle of the dressing room and were not subtle about cutting and snorting it.
- Daniels played the local fair about 10 years ago. My friends were already there for the rides and carnival food, so we grabbed a seat to listen while we ate our polish dogs and stuff. He starts the show, does a few of his songs, and then stops to go on this weird rant about a security alarm TV commercial. It went something like: "I was watching TV the other day and this commercial came on where this woman was home alone and a man kicked in her sliding glass door. The alarm goes off and she runs and hides and I got a little mad. 'Cause if I had my way, that woman would take out .57 magnum and blow that sucker away." Which was met with a cheering audience, while my friends just exchanged various versions of "What the fuck is he talking about."
- A friend of mine got taken to a more legit Daniels concert when he was a kid, and his dad knew someone at the venue and managed to get backstage. My friend described the experience: "Even as a 10 year-old, I remembered thinking, 'That sure is a lot of cocaine'." Apparently Daniels and his bandmates just had piles of coke on the table in the middle of the dressing room and were not subtle about cutting and snorting it.
I honestly feel like some of these people have some sort of contagious brain infection.
RIP
That explains a lot.
RIP
That explains a lot.
It's weird to listen to Dylan's Nashville skyline-new morning period and know he's in the backing band. Good riddance to a piece of garbage.
My mom sent me this from someone on Facebook:
Never been of fan biting your tongue when a genuinely awful person dies.
Never been of fan biting your tongue when a genuinely awful person dies.