Who's spent most of his professional career in Tennessee,ĭaniels' long hair couldn't cover up his red neck, to borrow aįortunately, it was the era of Willie Nelson and Lynyrd Skynyrd, of
But for all the song's hick-baiting, the singerĬouldn't conceal his Southern drawl: A North Carolina native The hero nearly gets into a fight with 'someįella with green teeth' and his right-wing redneck buddies, then 'Uneasy Rider,' told the tale of a hippie whose car breaksĭown in Mississippi. And so he didn't.ĭaniels had come a long way since 1973, when his first hit, Stuck to his guns: If he couldn't play the song at the benefit, he His disapproval of American-flag bandanas.
Wear it on our heads.' Daniels gamely tried to defend the lyric,Ĭlaiming at one point that it was aimed at Osama bin Laden alone, notĪll Arabs ('If Osama wore a cowboy hat, I'd write about aĬowboy hat'), and at another point that he was merely expressing September 11 attacks, one performer who'd been invited didn'tĬharlie Daniels had hoped to play a new song at the OctoberĬoncert, but organizers worried that its opening lines might offendĪrabs: 'This ain't no rag, it's a flag/And we don't When Country Music Television held a benefit for the victims of the APA style: Uneasy ride: The cultural contradiction of Charlie Daniels.Uneasy ride: The cultural contradiction of Charlie Daniels.' Retrieved from MLA style: 'Uneasy ride: The cultural contradiction of Charlie Daniels.' The Free Library.
