In 1999, the first of several Volunteer Jam Tours began, and in 2015, a Jam celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first Volunteer Jam was held at Bridgestone Arena, and another followed in 2016, celebrating his 80th birthday. Except for a three-year gap in the late 1980s, the Jams continued until 1996.
The same year, he organized the first in a series of Volunteer Jam concerts based in or around Nashville, Tennessee, often playing with members of Barefoot Jerry. Daniels can be heard on the live portion of the album Where We All Belong, recorded in Milwaukee on July 31, 1974. ĭaniels in concert at the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, Californiaĭuring this period, Daniels played fiddle on many of the Marshall Tucker Band's early albums: A New Life, Where We All Belong, Searchin' for a Rainbow, Long Hard Ride, and Carolina Dreams. His first hit, the novelty song " Uneasy Rider", was from his 1973 third album, Honey in the Rock, and reached No.
He also produced the 1969 album by the Youngbloods, Elephant Mountain. Daniels recorded his first solo album, Charlie Daniels, in 1971 (see 1971 in country music). He worked as a Nashville session musician, often for Johnston, including playing guitar and electric bass on three Bob Dylan albums during 19, and on recordings by Leonard Cohen. In 1964, Daniels co-wrote "It Hurts Me" (recorded by Elvis Presley) with his friend, producer Bob Johnston, under Bob's wife's name, Joy Byers. Already skilled on guitar, fiddle, banjo, and mandolin, he formed a rock 'n' roll band and hit the road. As a teenager, Daniels moved to the small town of Gulf, Chatham County, North Carolina.
In 2016, he shared memories of his youth and baseball in Wilmington when he wrote the foreword for a book on the Tobacco State League. Daniels was born October 28, 1936, in Wilmington, North Carolina, and raised on a musical diet that included Pentecostal gospel, local bluegrass bands, and the rhythm & blues and country music from Nashville's 50,000-watt AM radio stations WLAC and WSM.