Charlie Daniels (album)

Charlie Daniels is the debut album of American musician Charlie Daniels. It was released in 1971 courtesy of Capitol Records.[3]

Charlie Daniels
Studio album by
Released1971
StudioWoodland Studios, East Nashville, Tennessee
Genre
Length37:13
LabelCapitol[3]
ProducerJerry Corbitt, Dave Nives
Charlie Daniels chronology
Charlie Daniels
(1971)
Te John, Grease, & Wolfman
(1972)

Track listing

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[1]

Side one

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Great Big Bunches of Love"Daniels3:26
2."Little Boy Blue"Daniels4:31
3."Ain't No Way"Daniels3:31
4."Don't Let Your Man Find Out"Daniels3:17
5."Trudy"Daniels4:10

Side two

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Long Long Way (Back Home)"Daniels4:11
2."Georgia"Daniels3:23
3."The Pope and the Dope"Daniels2:34
4."Life Goes On"Jerry Corbitt, Daniels2:47
5."Thirty-Nine Miles From Mobile"Daniels5:23

Personnel

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  • Charlie Daniels - guitar, fiddle, vocals
  • Bob Wilson - keyboards
  • Jerry Corbitt - guitar, harmony vocals
  • Ben Keith - steel guitar, slide guitar
  • Billy Cox - bass
  • Tim Drummond - bass
  • Earl Grigsby - bass, vocals
  • Karl Himmel - drums
  • Jeffrey Myer - drums
Technical
  • Ernie Winfrey, Rex Collier - engineer
  • Rich Schmitt - remixing

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic     [1]

Charlie Daniels received five stars out of five from Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic.[1] Erlewine concludes that "he's [Charlie Daniels] a redneck rebel, not fitting into either the country or the rock & roll of 1970 with his record, but, in retrospect, he sounds like a visionary, pointing the way to the future when southern rockers saw no dividing lines between rock, country, and blues, and only saw it all as sons of the south. That's what he achieves with Charlie Daniels -- a unique Southern sound that's quintessentially American, sounding at once new and timeless. Once he formed the Charlie Daniels Band, he became a star and with Fire on the Mountain, he had another classic, but he would never sound as wild, unpredictable, or as much like a maverick as he does on this superb album.".[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Charlie Daniels review". Allmusic. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
  2. ^ a b Betts, Stephen L. (July 6, 2020). "Charlie Daniels, Southern Rock Pioneer and Fiddle Great, Dead at 83". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  3. ^ a b Uher, Bruce.""The Charlie Daniels Band - Chronology". Archived from the original on 2011-08-06. Retrieved 2011-11-27.", The Charlie Daniels Band Official Website. Retrieved 2011-11-27.