It’s been in the news today that Charlie Daniels has had a stroke. The 73 year-old musician was snowmobiling in Colorado when it occurred last Friday. He got to a hospital quickly for treatment and is doing fine at this point. He even has some concert dates coming up not too long from now, which he has not canceled. He is hopefully headed for a complete recovery. And the funny thing is that you don’t have to rely on news reports, because Charlie has himself written about the whole thing already on his forum, in a post titled “Different Strokes.” Charlie being the kind of guy that Charlie is (i.e. the best kind) he not only tells his own personal story but also gives excellent practical advice to his readers on what to do if they feel certain symptoms, and goes on to give thanks to God in some detail.

My old post on Charlie Daniels and Bob Dylan is at this link.

Worth reprinting is what Bob Dylan writes about Charlie in his memoir Chronicles:

I was wondering who [producer Bob Johnston] was going to bring to the sessions this time and was hoping he’d bring Charlie Daniels. He’d brought Charlie before, but he’d failed to bring him a few times, too. I felt I had a lot in common with Charlie. The kind of phrases he’d use, his sense of humor, his relationship to work, his tolerance for certain things. Felt like we had dreamed the same dream with all the same distant places. A lot of his recollections seemed to coincide with mine. Charlie would fiddle with stuff and make sense of it. … When Charlie was around, something good would usually come out of the sessions. … Years earlier Charlie had a band in his hometown called The Jaguars who had made a few surf rockabilly records, and although I hadn’t made any records in my hometown, I had a band too, about the same time. I felt our early histories were somewhat similar. Charlie eventually struck it big. After hearing the Allman Brothers and the side-winding Lynyrd Skynyrd, he’d find his groove and prove himself with his own brand of dynamics, coming up with a new form of hillbilly boogie that was pure genius. Atomic fueled—with surrealistic double fiddle playing and great tunes like Devil Went Down to Georgia …

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Addendum: By the way, I must note that before he even wrote about his stroke (today) Charlie had written a post earlier this week on the subject of Haiti and related matters. This was a mere three days after his health incident, and one day after being released from the hospital.

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