★★★★★
Captured at an April, 2005 show at the Country Music Hall of Fame's Ford Theater, this was one of those surprise, "only in Nashville"' nights-with the Del McCoury Band, Earl Scruggs and family, Mac Wiseman, and the Whites, all on hand. Charlie was introducing Songs from the Longleaf Pines at the time, and most songs and performer line-ups match those on the album; the duets with Mac on "What Would You Give in Exchange?" and "Keep on the Sunny Side" are extraordinary...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
At last, Charlie Daniels is off politics and onto something less polarizing,like religion. With this guest-filled set of acoustic gospel standardsand hymns, Daniels, who was raised on the stuff, belatedly jumps back onthe string-band bandwagon. His gruff style may take getting used to forthose accustomed to the genre's high, lonesome tenors, but that vocalbullishness in blue-grass' china shop is part of the fun.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Charlie Daniels was an embarrassingly inept fiddler who, as a songwriter, never recognized the line between jingoistic hokum and melodrama. But as the comprehensive three-CD set The Roots Remain from 1973 to the present shows, the Charlie Daniels Band had more fun with their country, Southern rock, and blues than anyone else of their era ? including the Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
For a sideman-turned-sortastar, Daniels kicks out genuine jams and takes genuine chances--the raveup on "Revelations," for instance, would sound plumb weird on an Allmans LP. Not a bad songwriter, either. But hardly a remarkable one, and he's a lousy singer--only on "Uneasy Rider," a talking blues as dry as any of Dylan's and a lot more yarnlike, does his voice serve his vision, such as it is.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
When Charlie Daniels held his first-ever Volunteer Jam in his home state of Tennessee, the tapes were rolling and the cameras were as well. Sections of the jam were filmed and released theatrically in 1975. The Volunteer Jam was scheduled to go on the road in 1999, with the film being screened prior to each show...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Listen Up contains ten tracks by Charlie Daniels, including the original hit versions of "In America," "Let It Roll," and "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," recorded for Epic in the mid- to late- '70s. The casual listener will be pleased with the choice of material and the budget price, but, without a doubt, the fan will already have this material.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Four albums in, Charlie Daniels -- now fronting the Charlie Daniels Band -- finally found a way to not just synthesize his various influences, he found a way to streamline them and polish them, turning them into something proudly Southern and redneck yet commercial with Fire on the Mountain. This means that he's toned down the wild, messy eclecticism that he displayed on his ignored debut in favor of a bluesy, jam-oriented country-rock owing a great deal to the Allman Brothers...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Charlie Daniels does it all, from dead-on country ballads to bluegrass to gospel to rock & roll. In this collection, Daniels puts on his rock & roll hat and delivers another winning set. From "Bogged Down in Love with You" to "Powder Keg," Charlie, Taz and the rest of the band stand and deliver. A great album by one of the best.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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