Audio CD review:
The Charlie Daniels Band - Roots Remain

The Charlie Daniels Band - Roots Remain

Band: The Charlie Daniels Band Title: Roots Remain Rating: Release Date: 1996-10-29 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Then, Now and Until the End - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 2: Uneasy Rider - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 3: No Place to Go - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 4: The South's Gonna Do It Again - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 5: Orange Blossom Special - Charlie Daniels, Rouse, Ervin T. 6: Trudy - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 7: Caballo Diablo - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 8: Long Haired Country Boy - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 9: Funky Junky - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 10: Texas - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 11: Birmingham Blues - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 12: Wichita Jail - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 13: Dixie on My Mind - Charlie Daniels, Crain, Tom 14: Sweet Louisiana - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 15: Saddle Tramp - Charlie Daniels, Crain, Tom 16: Billy the Kid - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 17: High Lonesome - Charlie Daniels, Crain, Tom 18: Midnight Wind - Charlie Daniels, Crain, Tom 19: Passing Lane - Charlie Daniels, Crain, Tom 20: The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels, Crain, Tom 21: Mississippi - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 22: Reflections - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 23: The Legend of Wooley Swamp - Charlie Daniels, Crain, Tom 24: Money - Charlie Daniels, Crain, Tom 25: Carolina (I Remember You) - Charlie Daniels, Crain, Tom 26: In America - Charlie Daniels, Crain, Tom 27: Ain't No Ramblers Anymore - Charlie Daniels, DiGregorio, Joel "T 28: We Had It All One Time - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 29: Still in Saigon - Charlie Daniels, Daley, Dan 30: Running with the Crowd - Charlie Daniels, Crain, Tom 31: American Farmer - Charlie Daniels, Crain, Tom 32: Drinkin' My Baby Goodbye - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 33: Cowboy Hat in Dallas - Charlie Daniels, Crain, Tom 34: Boggie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 35: Honky Tonk Avenue - Charlie Daniels, Crain, Tom 36: Midnight Train - Charlie Daniels, Crain, Tom 37: Uneasy Rider '88 - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 38: Simple Man - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 39: Play Me Some Fiddle - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 40: (What This World Needs Is) A Few More Rednecks - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie 41: To Be with Joanna Again - Charlie Daniels, Crain, Tom 42: Renegade - Charlie Daniels, Brown, Bruce [1] Ra 43: Layla - Charlie Daniels, Clapton, Eric 44: Talk to Me Fiddle - Charlie Daniels, Brown, Bruce [1] Ra 45: Little Folks - Charlie Daniels, Daniels, Charlie

This collection rocks the house! Here, you have a sampling of every CDB album on Epic Records. If you like great Southern fried music, pick this one up. I will caution you, though, that this music is addictive. This won't be the last CDB music you'll ever buy. I am a fanatic, so I have to have almost everything that Charlie ever recorded. This began when I seriously started to absorb this set. It's definitely worth the money. This also makes for a great autograph item, if you ever get a chance to meet Charlie. He's a good guy!. Awesome Southern Rock Collection Early in his career he was one of the top session musicians in Nashville playing on numerous albums, including Dylan's "Nashville Skyline". Charlie Daniels is first and always a musician. Starting with his quirky hit "Uneasy Rider" he began to play and sing his own music. One thing I always liked about Daniels is he never sold out his music. He played what he wanted to play, and if he received awards, great. If not, oh well. This boxed set includes a wide range of music, from Southern Rock to country, from pop to rock. One of my favorite two albums of his, "Fire on the Mountain" and "Saddle Tramp" are well represented here. The absolutely BEST song here is "No place to go" a live song from the first Volenteer Jam. This piece is about 12 minutes long and includes some of the best guitar work I've ever heard. Some of his hits that are included here are "The South's Going to do it Again", "Still in Saigon", and of course "The Devil went down to Georgia". But don't just listen to the hits. There is so much more here. "Saddle Tramp" is a wonderful 10 minute piece that has a great jam session on it, "Billy the Kid" is another first class rocker that gives the band a chance to let it loose, and "In America" recorded in the late 70's, is a great call for America to return to greatness. Disc 3 is probably my least favorite disc, and the reason I don't give this set a 5 star rating, but it does include a very interesting version of Clapton's "Layla" Overall, this is a great collection. If you want the definitive Charlie Daniels "Greatest Hits" collection then go no further than this box set. If your looking for just the hits then I recommend the earlier greatest hits package "A Decade of Hits". Excellent overview of country-rocker's career Beginning as a straight ahead rocker, who produced blues guitarist Roy Buchanan's debut album and the Youngblood's "Get Together" Daniels did not find solo success until 1973's hippy mini-saga "Uneasy Rider," the tale of a long hair who has a flat tire outside a redneck bar in Jackson, Mississippi. Country-rock giant (physically and musically) Charlie Daniels' career output defies easy categorization. Daniels' next flirtation with fame was the country-rock anthem "The South's Gonna Do It Again. " His follow-up, however, was the seemingly contradictory, "Long Haired Country Boy" about a long haired redneck who enjoyed "getting drunk in the morning and high in the afternoon. " Not exactly your typical country Top 40, especially in 1974. These hit singles and the mega-hit album "Fire On The Mountain" also from 1974, put CDB (Charlie Daniels Band) on both the pop and country musical maps, and set the tone for their output of the next 20 years. Mixing country ethos with rock-style playing, Daniels and co. became favorites of hippies and rednecks alike, and while he has moved further and further to the right politically, he has never isolated himself from the fun-loving long-haired crowd. "The Roots Remain" encapsulates CDB's recorded output from 1973-1992 when they departed Epic Records. The 45 tracks and more than 3 hours of music contained in the set include all his big hits as well as essential album tracks. Daniels' political leanings have always been evident, especially in works such as "The South's Gonna Do It Again," "In America," "Still In Saigon," and the American Farmer. " Mixing country fiddle with rock guitar, CDB epics such as the 11:27 version of "No Place To Go" and the 10:53 version of "Saddle Tramp" display ample evidence of the band's instrumental prowess. While the Charlie and band may be immune to musical pigeonholing, they certainly know how to have a good time and to share that good time with the listener. "The Roots Remain" is a wonderful distillation of the first 20 years of the Charlie Daniels Band, and as such belongs in the collection of country-rock, rock, and country music fans alike, right next to fellow Southern rock artists such as the Allman Brothers and the Marshall Tucker Band. You can see a complete list of all The Charlie Daniels Band discography, or go back to the The Charlie Daniels Band tabs