Charlie Daniels tried to save Ira Dean from addiction. Then Dean wrote Daniels a song and roped in Ted Nugent.

"The Jam meant a lot to Dad because it was his annual homecoming concert every year," Daniels' son Charlie Daniels, Jr. tells PEOPLE Cindy Watts is a CMA Award-winning journalist who has spent ...

"I came to the realization that this was going to be another way to keep Charlie's music alive," Warner says of re-recording Daniels' classic tune Tricia Despres is a writer for PEOPLE digital ...

Thanks to the impressive fiddling on his No. 1 country hit “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” Charlie Daniels is primarily identified as a fiddle player, but he is equally skilled on guitar ...