dEFROG ON 45 #32: YOU CAN HEAR THREE YOUNG MEN SCREAMING, YOU CAN HEAR ONE OLD MAN LAUGH

[defrog]

Growing up in Nashville in the 70s, inevitably, meant at the very least a passing familiarity with the Charlie Daniels Band. Even before they struck gold with “The Devil Went Down To Georgia”, the CDB were a major fixture in the Southern Rock scene, thanks to songs like “The South’s Gonna Do It Again”, as well as the annual Volunteer Jam concerts in Nashville.

I liked them at the time, more for the musicianship than the “Southern Pride” part, to say nothing of the “America is back, suck it” sentiment of “In America”. But most of CDB’s back catalog hasn’t really aged well with me – with two exceptions: “Uneasy Rider”, which is a depressingly accurate yet funny take on anti-counterculture attitudes in the early 70s South, and this song, which I had on 45:

Which appeals to the horror-movie fan in me, then and now.

Plus, I know a bad-ass riff when I hear one.

There’s some things in this world you just can’t explain,

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