DANIELS, CHARLIE
(*1936)
DANIELS, CHARLIE (b. C. Edwards D., Wilmington, N.C., October 28, 1936) Daniels is a flashy fiddler who leads a solid COUNTRY-ROCK band. He is best known for his 1979 country/pop hit The Devil Went Down to Georgia. Raised in rural North Carolina, Daniels played FIDDLE and GUITAR in a number of amateur country and BLUEGRASS bands before turning professional at age twenty-one. His first group was a rock-and-roll instrumental ensemble, The Jaguars, who recorded in 1959 under the hand of producer…