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Charlie Daniels is the self-titled debut album of American musician Charlie Daniels. It was released in 1971 courtesy of Capitol Records.[2]

Charlie Daniels
Studio album by Charlie Daniels
Released	1971
Studio	Woodland Studios, East Nashville, Tennessee
Genre	Southern rock[1] hard rock[1]
Length	37:13
Label	Capitol[2]
Producer	Jerry Corbitt, Dave Nives
Charlie Daniels chronology
Charlie Daniels (1971) Te John, Grease, & Wolfman (1972)

Track listing

[1]

Side one

Side two

Personnel

• Charlie Daniels - guitar, fiddle, vocals
• Bob Wilson - keyboards
• Jerry Corbitt - guitar, harmony vocals
• Ben Keith - steel guitar, slide guitar
• Billy Cox - bass
• Tim Drummond - bass
• Earl Grigsby - bass, vocals
• Karl Himmel - drums
• Jeffrey Myer - drums

Technical

• Ernie Winfrey, Rex Collier - engineer
• Rich Schmitt - remixing

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Charlie Daniels received five stars out of five from Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic.[1] Erlewine concludes that "he's [Charlie Daniels] a redneck rebel, not fitting into either the country or the rock & roll of 1970 with his record, but, in retrospect, he sounds like a visionary, pointing the way to the future when southern rockers saw no dividing lines between rock, country, and blues, and only saw it all as sons of the south. That's what he achieves with Charlie Daniels -- a unique Southern sound that's quintessentially American, sounding at once new and timeless. Once he formed the Charlie Daniels Band, he became a star and with Fire on the Mountain, he had another classic, but he would never sound as wild, unpredictable, or as much like a maverick as he does on this superb album.".[1]

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