On this day in 1977: Wilmington-born Charlie Daniels joins the more traditional Guy Lombardo at Jimmy Carter’s inaugural ball.
Two years later the Charlie Daniels Band will hit No. 1 on both country and rock charts with the fiddle tour de force “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.”
Pictured: A CDB crew member’s security tag from the Lew Powell Memorabilia Collection (CK.1287.3099).
And this just in… According to his Web site, the 73-year-old Daniels suffered “a mild stroke” Friday while snowmobiling in Colorado and was released from a Denver hospital Sunday. No plans to cancel his next tour, which begins Feb. 27.
I’d heard that Charlie Daniels grew up in the Goldston-Gulf area of Chatham County. Googled it just now, and found two stories that would seem to corroborate: http://bit.ly/4IO6AM and http://bit.ly/4xwQdH
Will , Charlie Daniels moved to Gulf NC as a young man. The reason I know this is cause I am a UPS driver and I deliver that area. Mater a fact. I can tell you the house he grew up in. If you are in Sanford and you travel north on 421 you will come to a small store called JR Moores on the corner of thrift rd and Fayetteville Rd. Take a right and Daniels was raised in the second house on the right. It is small white house and the paint is coming off the house.