{"id":203012,"date":"2020-07-06T14:22:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T19:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=203012"},"modified":"2020-07-06T14:23:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T19:23:22","slug":"country-rocker-charlie-daniels-passes-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=203012","title":{"rendered":"Country-Rocker, Charlie Daniels passes, 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-203014\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DanielsCharlie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DanielsCharlie.jpg 211w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DanielsCharlie-154x175.jpg 154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Country music pioneer and fiddler Charlie Daniels, who had a hit with \u201cDevil Went Down to Georgia,\u201d has died at age 83. A statement from his publicist said the Country Music Hall of Famer died Monday July 6, 2020,\u00a0 due to a stroke. Daniels, a singer, guitarist and fiddler, started out as a session musician, even playing on Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cNashville Skyline\u201d sessions. His edgy, early music raised eyebrows in Nashville, with \u201cLong Haired Country Boy\u201d celebrating marijuana smoking and \u201cUneasy Rider\u201d poking fun at rednecks. But he softened some verses in the 1990s and in 2008 joined the epitome of Nashville\u2019s music establishment, the Grand Ole Opry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Country music pioneer and fiddler Charlie Daniels, who had a hit with \u201cDevil Went Down to Georgia,\u201d has died at age 83. A statement from his publicist said the Country Music Hall of Famer died Monday July 6, 2020,\u00a0 due to a stroke. Daniels, a singer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":203013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203016,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203012\/revisions\/203016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}