This comment is true. Someone commented upstream that this song was a hit loooooong before rap was ever thought of. Laughable, considering rap had been around for years before CDB hit it big with this one in 1979.
Trivial note.....the chorus sings "Fire on the Mountain, Run Boys Run", "Devil's in the House of the Rising Sun", "The Chicken's in the Bread Pan A' Picking Out Dough" and "Grannie Does Your Dog Bite? No Child, No" and each one of those 4 phrases are well known and loved old blue grass songs from days gone by. This was one of the very first true country song to ever cross over from country to main stream rock and I remember it well from my youth. They really did pioneer the way for so many country singers to get onto main stream radio.....singers such as Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, Alan Jackson all can tip their hats to The Charlie Daniels Band for opening the door.
Thank you. I'm a 55 year old American who grew up hearing this song. And I never could understand that one line, "Grannie does your dog bite?" "No child No!" I finally learned today, in 2023, what they were saying in that one line, after reading the top comment in this thread.
@@IChooseJesus9091 LOL isn't that true of a LOT of songs? I can't tell you how many I hear people singing the wrong lyrics never knowing that was not what they were saying! Too funny,
@@daricetaylor737 + I may have done that with other songs. But not this one. 😉 I just couldn't understand that one line. And couldn't come up with what it might be either. So I just went years not knowing what the hell they were saying there...🤷♀️
@@par500dragon7 People really need to listen to lyrics. I know a lot of people who only hear the fantastic music but then they suddenly realize there is a story there if you listen to the words that go along with it. Hey, it's storytelling. Rapping, if you will, but years before people of his generation ever heard of rapping. The song crossed country & rock boundaries on the radio. When I grew up it was not classified as a single genre. Crossover.
I met Mr. Daniels at his concert after the show. I gestured towards him as if to shake his hand and he said, “Oh come here, Darlin’,” and he gave me a huge bear hug. He was so nice to his fans.
That is incorrect. This song came out in 1979. Rapper's Delight went to #1 in 1980. Rap had been around long before that song reached the pinnacle. With that said, musical stylings borrow from each other all the time. CDB had been playing music like this for years, and indeed, this style of singing has been around a loooooong time. But to say this was on the charts LOOOONG before rap was even thought of is disingenuous, at best.
@@sr71ablackbird Lack reading comprehension much? Original post said this song was on the charts long before rap. That is incorrect. NOT the style. The song. Learn how to read.
@@charliemac64 rap had not been around that long, it started back in the 70s. search for the answers yourself. that `calling' started here in the u.s. back in the 1930s. and even more, the square dancing started back in england in the 1600s.
Funny bit of trivia, the part where he says, Fire on the Mountain Run Boy Run, The Devils in the House of the Risin Sun, Chicken in the Bread Pan Peckin' out Dough, ect... those are titles to actual Bluegrass songs. This insinuates he played those songs to win the contest.
@@BritPopsReact I know those songs by heart, I grew up and still live in the Southern Hills of West Virginia. My ancestors are Irish, with a bit of Scott rolled in there.
"Fire on the Mountain" run boys, run The devil's in the House of the Rising Sun Chicken in a bread pan pickin' out dough Granny, does your dog bite? No, child, no These are call outs to OG traditional hill country folk music songs.
That chanting cadence is meant to echo oral history/storytelling traditions. If you listen to more of Charlie Daniels's music you'll find that he has a number of "songs" that have more of this chanting story cadence than actual singing. One that comes to mind is Still in Saigon. Charlie Daniels was widely considered to be one of, if not *the*, best fiddle players in the world. He was an icon and will be sorely missed.
There's a sequel to this that was done as part of Mark O'Conner's album Heroes. It features Mark and Charlie on the fiddles, with Johnny Cash narrating, Marty Stuart as Johnny, and Travis Tritt as the Devil.
The Devil went down to Georgia is actually not rap as rap wasn't even thought of when it came out. However it is one of the major songs of Southern Rock Genre.
This is a classic. If you are ever tempted by the devil you can point out that you never lost a golden fiddle to some Hillbilly in Georgia. Thanks for the reaction. 😁😁😎
An absolute American Classic! Great fun song! Went to number 1 as a country song and number 3 as a pop song. Crazy it was number 14 in the UK. He was also inducted into the Country Hall of Fame in 2016. Charlie died in 2020. Great song guys and reaction! Keep them coming!! Cheers!!
@Michael Whelan It does seem crazy that BP1 had never heard of it, so we had to bring him up to speed and he genuinely did enjoy it. Total classic indeed. Thanks for the comment.
Just FYI, when you talk about an out house, down here in the south that is an outdoor bathroom for the houses that don't have indoor plumbing. Or at my grandmother's house, when all her eight children were there for Christmas with spouses and children and grandchildren, the outhouse was used when you couldn't wait for the only bathroom in the house to get free.
Good show on this one, mates. Another group in the southern rock genre you'd certainly enjoy is the Marshall Tucker Band. Can't You See, Heard it in a Love Song and Fire on the Mountain are their biggest charting hits that absolutely won't disappoint! Cheers mates!
@Brew Swillis Cheers mate, thanks for popping in again. I have noted down your recommendation and we will try and give them a view soon. Have a good one!
"Chicken in the bread pan pickin' out dough, Granny does your dog bit? No child, no." Not lyrics you see in many songs. LOL He was an amazing fiddle player.
"Outhouse on a veranda and having a couple of nice beverages" That made me laugh because an outhouse is an outdoor toilet that is an hole in the ground with an small shed like structure on top with a place to do your Business. now the fancy ones like they have in state parks are composting toilets but are still outhouses.
@Elaine Howard Thank you too for watching and we are slowly bringing BP1 around to Country music, where to next? Oh.... hope you forgive me.... Cheers!!!
It is common in bluegrass to have a talking cadence. It's left over from the days of barn dancing and even has its own sub genre called talking country. You can hear examples of this and songs like Ida red Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette). This was such a prevalent American sound that it even made its way into early rock and roll. An example of this would be chantilly lace by the big bopper.
A small little tidbit is the man playing Earl is known for his role in The American cop show NYPD BLUE for playing a cop. The Chicks ask him to play one of the cops to which he said he wanted to play Earl. And one of the Cops was the then husband of one of the singers
The Ralph Maccio reference you were looking for is the movie Crossroads, which is a fairly entertaining take on the classic folktale of meeting the Devil "down at the crossroads" for a music contest with souls at stake.
Just so you know, it's an anthem in the US. Blue Grass/Country but enough to transcend, It's legitimately an anthem. Play a chord in any stadium and the crowd will finish it... period, end of story.
Nice reaction; SUBSCRIBED!!❤️ It is very likely that like myself, Daniels had Scots-Irish, or Scotch-Irish as most Americans say now, ancestry. Very common in the South. They brought with them their affinity for & skills on the violin/fiddle & it was passed down. Daniels was a legend and a class act. You’ll notice he faces each musician as they have ‘their’ moment in the song; this is a direct show of respect between musicians. You can see this more recently in the live Oscars performance of Shallow by Gaga & Bradley Cooper (of all places lol but kudos to them). Another good CDB song is ‘In America’. Stay safe & love much!💖 Cheers!
@How Rue'd Hello and thank you for checking out our channel and for the support. We are on a bit of a Christmas run at the moment to help everyone get into the Christmas spirit, but we will be back with more Country and we are pretty clueless on that music scene and have much more to discover. Pop back anytime. Cheers BPR
Thank You! Carrie Underwood just dropped a new lighthearted Holiday song & animated video about 3wks ago that somehow still manages to show off her amazing vocals: ‘Stretchy Pants’. So there’s that lol Her How Great Thou Art live w Vince Gill is nothing short of STUNNING. Looking forward to many more of your reacts!! Prior to covid hubby spent a great deal of time in the UK, primarily Nottingham. Please. Send. Crunchies!!!😩😂 Stay safe & love much💖 Cheers!
@Peter Richards Yes, I totally agree and that is why I took the opportunity to get BP1 on board with it to broaden is own musical history and he did enjoy it. Thanks for watching
As always I love your reaction. That being said…Fun fact, In America an outhouse is an outside bathroom. Nothing wrong with listening to a good song in there, just thought I would let you know. 😁🍻
@Kimberly Oakley Hi Kimberly, thank you for the comment and the fun fact. Ah yes, we got many comments about that, poor BP1 was having a bad day. Thanks for watching
Love this video! Have heard it many times over the years. I am bemused by your stuff, upper-lipped, very British reaction. That is because you didn"t toe-tap and knee-slap along with most viewers. Just the fiddling alone is world-class, jaw-dropping talent Then the story is so clearly "rapped" as you described it. Every word can be understood even though they have very strong Southern accents. AND the all-important message ends up with The Devil LOSING !!! THAT, dear sirs, is what the whole world cheers about.!! If you ever listen to this again, let yourself loosen up and tap and clap and cheer for Johnny!! Thanks for sharing this historic song. 🤠🤠🎻🎻🎹🥁🎶🎶🎶🔊 ♥️♥️
Haha well that was definitely a good old knee slapper, it made me think of 'Tenacious D - Tribute', this was a good fun track and I'm with BP1 on the veranda drinking a few beverages while these guys provide the entertainment.
@Lord Lockdowns Jukebox Brilliant, they don't make them like that anymore. Ohhh, yes Tenacious D, we should check out some of their stuff soon. Thanks for popping in.
I had to chuckle when you said it would be nice to be in an out house or veranda. Here in the states an out house was a little building outside of the house when there was no indoor plumbing that you went to the bathroom in. Today's version would be the porta potty.
@@lesaahrenstein6360 oh, and if that is not enough, let me enlighten ya a bit more, as for the so-called `plumbing', that consisted of a hand pump mounted on the sink as well, and the only `water heater' that was around was a stove of which water was pumped into a basin and then poured into the sink. also, tell me as to why i would not use a creation from ben franklin, after all, was he not one of the founding fathers of this country ?
Old style country. There used to be a major division between the coasts and the cities vs the rural areas in the 1960s-1970s. This one reminds me of that time. Traveling cross country you couldn't get the pop stations it was all this style. Country/folk/Americana music has changed alot since then. I think it really shattered all to pieces when Whitney Houston did Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You". This one is bluegrass based (the biggest hint is the violin). Reminds me of when Roger Miller and Glenn Campbell became universally popular in the same time period. Once the New York City and Chicago folks started listening too the lines started to blur. Big place the United States. How about blues instead of bluegrass? Contemporary blues might be a shock for you. "Back Down South" or "Bleached Blonde Bottle Blues" Larkin Poe is fairly current traditional blues. East coast south not Texas or out west. "Live Like You Were Dying" Tom McGraw is very good. More western not based out of the old Confederacy. Different lifestyle though from the U.K. definitely. When I was a kid there was a TV program from "the Grand Old Opry" in Nashville, Tennessee. Seemed really silly to a NYC resident. One singer wore a hat with the price tag still on it Pearl something I think. The cultures were diametrically opposed but the instrumental music was virtuosic and still is. Maybe that would work? Try something like "Dueling Banjos". No words involved. Or here's an idea the song Hey Ya! by Outkast vs the bluegrass cover of it by Avriel and the Sequoias (aka Avi Kaplan before he left Pentatonix). Listening to a song in 2 completely different and alien genres to each other may be able to pinpoint what the dislike is for the music, culture, themes or something else?
@Gail Seaton Humbert Hi Gail, thank you for all that interesting information. I have it saved off and will do a little more research and see what we can take from it. We enjoy discovering new artists and will certainly look into some of the suggestion. Thanks you for posting it and for popping in. Cheers for now
It's way before rap , and I thought Charlie Danials Band had a little southern rock mixed in , not just this song but quite a few of there other tunes also !!!!
Rap started in the weekly 1970's. Just because you didn't hear it then doesn't mean it didn't exist. Telling oral history over Music also was done for generations from us also!
Even though it is from 1979, technically, it is rap. But then again, Rex Harrison "singing" in any of his movies, that is technically rap too. Also, I wish the pianist had an injured foot, if only to hear people talk about a "one foot pianist".
Cheers gents, I’m 51 and seen over 600 live concerts…going all the way back to Elvis before he died…Country concerts are always a blast. I grew up with music going all the way back to swing and big band…so I’ll gladly send you some suggestions in terms of great ones to react to, if you’d like. Any genre and time period.
HELLO, Gentlemen I was in high-school when this song came out. To get a feel for this, the movie URBAN COWBOY, came out. John Travolta was the lead, it was filmed in the biggest bar in the world, Mickey Gillies & Charlie Daniels was the band. It's worth seeing!!!
Great song another song from him and his group is Still in Saigon. As a Viet-Nam myself it musters some good and some bad memories but he puts a country swing on it. Thanks
Great! Really enjoyed your reaction. I know exactly what you mean about being in a different world. I think me here on a little island in the middle of the Irish sea is about as far away from that world as you can get! 😂 Thanks to you both for a great lighthearted reaction 🙂
You would NOT want to be anywhere near a outhouse lol. My grandmother lived in West Virginia. On the side of a mountain. NO running water. As a child going into it was scary. LOTS OF SPIDERS. Was always afraid I would fall in. Im 70 yrs old now. My grandparents and parents are gone. I have my memories I had the best childhoodbever
guys.....you must understand that this was and still is a HUGE hit song here in America. Everyone knows it and everyone loves it.
Yeah 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Yup 🫡 🎻 🇺🇸
Canada too!!!❤❤❤❤
Yep, even here in the Northeast, we love it ❤️
Country artists have been “rapping” for generations. This is pure two stepping bluegrass.
This comment is true.
Someone commented upstream that this song was a hit loooooong before rap was ever thought of. Laughable, considering rap had been around for years before CDB hit it big with this one in 1979.
It's not rap anyways. It's story telling, which is country music's niche forever.
@@chalmapatterson544 also, what is called `calling' which they do in square dancing.
@@sr71ablackbird Around here we call it "Talking" been doing it for generations
@@TintagelEmrys then rap is talking, too.
Trivial note.....the chorus sings "Fire on the Mountain, Run Boys Run", "Devil's in the House of the Rising Sun", "The Chicken's in the Bread Pan A' Picking Out Dough" and "Grannie Does Your Dog Bite? No Child, No" and each one of those 4 phrases are well known and loved old blue grass songs from days gone by. This was one of the very first true country song to ever cross over from country to main stream rock and I remember it well from my youth. They really did pioneer the way for so many country singers to get onto main stream radio.....singers such as Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, Alan Jackson all can tip their hats to The Charlie Daniels Band for opening the door.
I never knew about the lyrics referring to other blue grass songs! Great info!
Thank you.
I'm a 55 year old American who grew up hearing this song. And I never could understand that one line, "Grannie does your dog bite?" "No child No!"
I finally learned today, in 2023, what they were saying in that one line, after reading the top comment in this thread.
@@IChooseJesus9091 LOL isn't that true of a LOT of songs? I can't tell you how many I hear people singing the wrong lyrics never knowing that was not what they were saying! Too funny,
@@daricetaylor737 + I may have done that with other songs. But not this one. 😉 I just couldn't understand that one line. And couldn't come up with what it might be either. So I just went years not knowing what the hell they were saying there...🤷♀️
@@par500dragon7 People really need to listen to lyrics. I know a lot of people who only hear the fantastic music but then they suddenly realize there is a story there if you listen to the words that go along with it. Hey, it's storytelling. Rapping, if you will, but years before people of his generation ever heard of rapping. The song crossed country & rock boundaries on the radio. When I grew up it was not classified as a single genre. Crossover.
I met Mr. Daniels at his concert after the show. I gestured towards him as if to shake his hand and he said, “Oh come here, Darlin’,” and he gave me a huge bear hug. He was so nice to his fans.
In the '70's we called it Southern Rock
This song was on the charts LOOOONG before rap was even thought of.
That is incorrect. This song came out in 1979. Rapper's Delight went to #1 in 1980. Rap had been around long before that song reached the pinnacle.
With that said, musical stylings borrow from each other all the time. CDB had been playing music like this for years, and indeed, this style of singing has been around a loooooong time.
But to say this was on the charts LOOOONG before rap was even thought of is disingenuous, at best.
@@charliemac64 try again, it's what is called `calling', and that was done way before rap, that was done in square dancing.
@@sr71ablackbird Lack reading comprehension much? Original post said this song was on the charts long before rap. That is incorrect. NOT the style. The song. Learn how to read.
@@charliemac64 rap had not been around that long, it started back in the 70s. search for the answers yourself. that `calling' started here in the u.s. back in the 1930s. and even more, the square dancing started back in england in the 1600s.
@@sr71ablackbird It is obvious you lack basic comprehensive skills so I'm done here.
When this song first came out, it was on the top 40 charts and not just the country charts
Funny bit of trivia, the part where he says, Fire on the Mountain Run Boy Run, The Devils in the House of the Risin Sun, Chicken in the Bread Pan Peckin' out Dough, ect... those are titles to actual Bluegrass songs. This insinuates he played those songs to win the contest.
Ah interesting thanks 😊
@@BritPopsReact I know those songs by heart, I grew up and still live in the Southern Hills of West Virginia. My ancestors are Irish, with a bit of Scott rolled in there.
"Fire on the Mountain" run boys, run
The devil's in the House of the Rising Sun
Chicken in a bread pan pickin' out dough
Granny, does your dog bite? No, child, no
These are call outs to OG traditional hill country folk music songs.
That chanting cadence is meant to echo oral history/storytelling traditions. If you listen to more of Charlie Daniels's music you'll find that he has a number of "songs" that have more of this chanting story cadence than actual singing. One that comes to mind is Still in Saigon.
Charlie Daniels was widely considered to be one of, if not *the*, best fiddle players in the world. He was an icon and will be sorely missed.
There's a sequel to this that was done as part of Mark O'Conner's album Heroes. It features Mark and Charlie on the fiddles, with Johnny Cash narrating, Marty Stuart as Johnny, and Travis Tritt as the Devil.
The Devil went down to Georgia is actually not rap as rap wasn't even thought of when it came out. However it is one of the major songs of Southern Rock Genre.
"Once you've heard it, ain't no going back, man" indeed
I cant even imagine mastering a musical instrument this magically.
Enjoyed your reaction to Charlie. He was one of the best fiddle players that ever lived! Thank you guys!!
Country RAP?!!! PLEASE!!! If Charlie Daniels, God rest his soul, heard you say that...
This is a classic. If you are ever tempted by the devil you can point out that you never lost a golden fiddle to some Hillbilly in Georgia. Thanks for the reaction. 😁😁😎
@Richard Wilson
Thank you for the comment and very wise words...
I will remember those should I be tempted in the future.
😁😁😎
@@BritPopsReact can't nobody play a fiddle like us hillbillies! Thank you Charlie
Proud to be a Southern Hillbilly of Scotch-Irish-English descent!
I think all the Americans just cringed when he said it sounded like rap, I know I did
Nobody can sit still listening to this. Rip Charlie
This is an iconic American song! And something we are very proud of!
6:50 ... Sir, I don't think you know what an outhouse is! 😂
As a Georgia girl...I have nothing but love for this song and CDB❤❤❤❤ grew up listening to it!
An absolute American Classic! Great fun song! Went to number 1 as a country song and number 3 as a pop song. Crazy it was number 14 in the UK. He was also inducted into the Country Hall of Fame in 2016. Charlie died in 2020. Great song guys and reaction! Keep them coming!! Cheers!!
@Michael Whelan
It does seem crazy that BP1 had never heard of it, so we had to bring him up to speed and he genuinely did enjoy it.
Total classic indeed.
Thanks for the comment.
The fiddle IS the violin !!! 🎻lol
Just FYI, when you talk about an out house, down here in the south that is an outdoor bathroom for the houses that don't have indoor plumbing. Or at my grandmother's house, when all her eight children were there for Christmas with spouses and children and grandchildren, the outhouse was used when you couldn't wait for the only bathroom in the house to get free.
Charlie's a bad to the bone fiddler and that drummer is keeping that shuffle that's a lot of the soul of the song
Good show on this one, mates. Another group in the southern rock genre you'd certainly enjoy is the Marshall Tucker Band. Can't You See, Heard it in a Love Song and Fire on the Mountain are their biggest charting hits that absolutely won't disappoint! Cheers mates!
@Brew Swillis
Cheers mate, thanks for popping in again.
I have noted down your recommendation and we will try and give them a view soon.
Have a good one!
Marshall tucker is fantastic. Only second to the Alleman Brothers. But Marshall Tucker is a better reaction video source
"Chicken in the bread pan pickin' out dough, Granny does your dog bit? No child, no." Not lyrics you see in many songs. LOL He was an amazing fiddle player.
"Outhouse on a veranda and having a couple of nice beverages"
That made me laugh because an outhouse is an outdoor toilet that is an hole in the ground with an small shed like structure on top with a place to do your Business. now the fancy ones like they have in state parks are composting toilets but are still outhouses.
Such an amazing song...way before rap was ever heard of. This song is still as popular today as it was when it came out.
Hi guys, I love this song, I’ve seen lots of versions. This one is the original I think. Thank you so much for sharing this video 🤗🤗🤗
@Elaine Howard
Thank you too for watching and we are slowly bringing BP1 around to Country music, where to next?
Oh.... hope you forgive me....
Cheers!!!
It is common in bluegrass to have a talking cadence. It's left over from the days of barn dancing and even has its own sub genre called talking country. You can hear examples of this and songs like Ida red Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette). This was such a prevalent American sound that it even made its way into early rock and roll. An example of this would be chantilly lace by the big bopper.
We still dance to this song every chance we get. And I am sure for many to come. I was blessed to hear him play and dance in person to his music 🎶 🎵
Great reaction guys! Absolutely loved it!
@cano21
Thank you for the comment, we appreciate it.
Cheers
You don't want to have a beverage in an outhouse in the US. That's our word for an outdoor privy. 🤣
@Janet Dungan
🤣🤣 BP1 is easily confused
Charlie was such a good storyteller, but one of my favorites is Still in Saigon.
A small little tidbit is the man playing Earl is known for his role in The American cop show NYPD BLUE for playing a cop. The Chicks ask him to play one of the cops to which he said he wanted to play Earl. And one of the Cops was the then husband of one of the singers
"Long-haired Country boy! LIVE,1978 AWESOME LYRICS
The Ralph Maccio reference you were looking for is the movie Crossroads, which is a fairly entertaining take on the classic folktale of meeting the Devil "down at the crossroads" for a music contest with souls at stake.
@David Tate
Thank you for the information, that was exactly what I was thinking of.
I had a senior moment there,
Thanks for watching
I think this song is working from a similar tradition.
You guys really should listen to Charlie Daniels, Uneasy Rider. That's got to be one of the funniest storys ever told in country music.
Just so you know, it's an anthem in the US. Blue Grass/Country but enough to transcend, It's legitimately an anthem. Play a chord in any stadium and the crowd will finish it... period, end of story.
Man I love watching his fingers fly across the strings of that fiddle
country song were the guy doesn't lose his truck girl and house sounds good lol
An outhouse is an outdoor toilet. Verandas and outhouses don’t mix 😆
Fire on the mountain. Marshal Tucker Band
It's not blue grass. Its southern rock
❤️...”I told you once you son of a B I’m the best there’s ever been”
I saw your smile BP1. 😉
@Anna
Ah yes, any naught words will bring a smile to BP1's face.
Thanks for watching.
Much better than the censored radio friendly version.
Americans are still looking for Charlie's golden fiddle.... This was a true story!
Nice reaction; SUBSCRIBED!!❤️
It is very likely that like myself, Daniels had Scots-Irish, or Scotch-Irish as most Americans say now, ancestry. Very common in the South. They brought with them their affinity for & skills on the violin/fiddle & it was passed down.
Daniels was a legend and a class act. You’ll notice he faces each musician as they have ‘their’ moment in the song; this is a direct show of respect between musicians. You can see this more recently in the live Oscars performance of Shallow by Gaga & Bradley Cooper (of all places lol but kudos to them).
Another good CDB song is ‘In America’.
Stay safe & love much!💖
Cheers!
@How Rue'd
Hello and thank you for checking out our channel and for the support.
We are on a bit of a Christmas run at the moment to help everyone get into the Christmas spirit, but we will be back with more Country and we are pretty clueless on that music scene and have much more to discover.
Pop back anytime.
Cheers BPR
Thank You!
Carrie Underwood just dropped a new lighthearted Holiday song & animated video about 3wks ago that somehow still manages to show off her amazing vocals: ‘Stretchy Pants’. So there’s that lol
Her How Great Thou Art live w Vince Gill is nothing short of STUNNING.
Looking forward to many more of your reacts!! Prior to covid hubby spent a great deal of time in the UK, primarily Nottingham.
Please. Send. Crunchies!!!😩😂
Stay safe & love much💖
Cheers!
When they settled in the hills they brought their music and culture with them. Hence the term "hillbillies".
I don't know where or when I first heard this song but its classic storytelling country western (Bluegrass) or whatever but it's great.
@Peter Richards
Yes, I totally agree and that is why I took the opportunity to get BP1 on board with it to broaden is own musical history and he did enjoy it.
Thanks for watching
As always I love your reaction. That being said…Fun fact, In America an outhouse is an outside bathroom. Nothing wrong with listening to a good song in there, just thought I would let you know. 😁🍻
@Kimberly Oakley
Hi Kimberly, thank you for the comment and the fun fact.
Ah yes, we got many comments about that, poor BP1 was having a bad day.
Thanks for watching
Now you need to do the follow up, "Devil Comes Back to Georgia" feat. Mark O'Connor with Daniels, Cash, Tritt and Marty Stuart.
This comes close as being almost as good as the original!
Love this video! Have heard it many times over the years. I am bemused by your stuff, upper-lipped, very British reaction. That is because you didn"t toe-tap and knee-slap along with most viewers. Just the fiddling alone is world-class, jaw-dropping talent
Then the story is so clearly "rapped" as you described it. Every word can be understood even though they have very strong Southern accents. AND the all-important message ends up with The Devil LOSING !!! THAT, dear sirs, is what the whole world cheers about.!! If you ever listen to this again, let yourself loosen up and tap and clap and cheer for Johnny!! Thanks for sharing this historic song. 🤠🤠🎻🎻🎹🥁🎶🎶🎶🔊 ♥️♥️
I'm so proud to be a descendant of a revolutionary soldier,this is America like you British could never expect, thank God we won
Haha well that was definitely a good old knee slapper, it made me think of 'Tenacious D - Tribute', this was a good fun track and I'm with BP1 on the veranda drinking a few beverages while these guys provide the entertainment.
@Lord Lockdowns Jukebox
Brilliant, they don't make them like that anymore.
Ohhh, yes Tenacious D, we should check out some of their stuff soon.
Thanks for popping in.
I saw them in concert shortly after this song hit the radio. They put on a great show!
@Vicki Roman
Hello and thank you for the comment.
Yes, that looks like it would have been a great night out.
Thanks for watching
It's rap. In 78 rap was still in new York. Charlie heard about the rhythmic rhyming. And said let's give it a shot.
I had to chuckle when you said it would be nice to be in an out house or veranda. Here in the states an out house was a little building outside of the house when there was no indoor plumbing that you went to the bathroom in. Today's version would be the porta potty.
my ma's cousin had one of those outhouses at her home. once ya use one, ya never forget it. especially when there is catalogs and newspapers involved.
Sears Roebuck and Company catalog. I highly doubt you use the Farmers Almanac
@@lesaahrenstein6360 well, that just goes to show how much ya know about me, doesn't it ?
@@lesaahrenstein6360 oh, and if that is not enough, let me enlighten ya a bit more, as for the so-called `plumbing', that consisted of a hand pump mounted on the sink as well, and the only `water heater' that was around was a stove of which water was pumped into a basin and then poured into the sink. also, tell me as to why i would not use a creation from ben franklin, after all, was he not one of the founding fathers of this country ?
1 time i saw him live and he played the strings off his fiddle
This song always makes me think of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. US gymnast Dominique Moceanu used it for her floor routine.
after knowing this song my entire life, it still gives me chills every time i hear it
You want to put yourself in an "out house" having nice beverages? We must have a different definition for an outhouse in the U.S.....🤣🥰
Old style country. There used to be a major division between the coasts and the cities vs the rural areas in the 1960s-1970s. This one reminds me of that time. Traveling cross country you couldn't get the pop stations it was all this style.
Country/folk/Americana music has changed alot since then. I think it really shattered all to pieces when Whitney Houston did Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You".
This one is bluegrass based (the biggest hint is the violin). Reminds me of when Roger Miller and Glenn Campbell became universally popular in the same time period.
Once the New York City and Chicago folks started listening too the lines started to blur.
Big place the United States.
How about blues instead of bluegrass? Contemporary blues might be a shock for you. "Back Down South" or "Bleached Blonde Bottle Blues" Larkin Poe is fairly current traditional blues. East coast south not Texas or out west.
"Live Like You Were Dying" Tom McGraw is very good. More western not based out of the old Confederacy. Different lifestyle though from the U.K. definitely.
When I was a kid there was a TV program from "the Grand Old Opry" in Nashville, Tennessee. Seemed really silly to a NYC resident. One singer wore a hat with the price tag still on it Pearl something I think.
The cultures were diametrically opposed but the instrumental music was virtuosic and still is.
Maybe that would work? Try something like "Dueling Banjos". No words involved.
Or here's an idea the song Hey Ya! by Outkast vs the bluegrass cover of it by Avriel and the Sequoias (aka Avi Kaplan before he left Pentatonix). Listening to a song in 2 completely different and alien genres to each other may be able to pinpoint what the dislike is for the music, culture, themes or something else?
@Gail Seaton Humbert
Hi Gail, thank you for all that interesting information.
I have it saved off and will do a little more research and see what we can take from it.
We enjoy discovering new artists and will certainly look into some of the suggestion.
Thanks you for posting it and for popping in.
Cheers for now
@@BritPopsReact you are welcome. American holiday of Thanksgiving coming up so I may not see your reactions until later.
As a teenager, I always thought of CDB as country-rock. I loved his 'The South's Gonna Do It Again. Also, the song Mississippi.
Not country rap ..its whats called 'Rockabilly' and CDB is a founding cornerstone band for this brand of music!
It's way before rap , and I thought Charlie Danials Band had a little southern rock mixed in , not just this song but quite a few of there other tunes also !!!!
This man is amazing!
@Lynn Soeth
We are not going to argue with that and who knew the fiddle could sound so cool
Thanks for watching,
"In an outhouse on a veranda...?" Surely I misunderstood that fellow.
@Mary Greenfield
Ah, probably not, he has no idea what he is talking about half the time😊
Thanks for watching, hope you come back soon.
Great fiddle playing. 👍
@Faith Reasons
He was not fiddling about on that fiddle, he knew exactly where all the right notes were.
👍👍
Never stop in the middle of a lead. That’s so very British of you
This is from the 70’s! I’m sure you can hear the Scots- Irish roots of Bluegrass.
Agree-an American classic. Fun song
you mean road house, outhouse is a bathroom. Charlie Daniels was a pretty awesome person.
Rap started in the weekly 1970's. Just because you didn't hear it then doesn't mean it didn't exist. Telling oral history over Music also was done for generations from us also!
Charlie Daniels used chant with his country-rock.
Check out a song by the CDB called Still in Saigon and another one called El Caballo Diablo. Or anything off of the Windows album. Great music
Love hanging out listening to music in an outhouse 🌙
Country and bluegrass is all about story telling!
Even though it is from 1979, technically, it is rap. But then again, Rex Harrison "singing" in any of his movies, that is technically rap too. Also, I wish the pianist had an injured foot, if only to hear people talk about a "one foot pianist".
Cheers gents,
I’m 51 and seen over 600 live concerts…going all the way back to Elvis before he died…Country concerts are always a blast. I grew up with music going all the way back to swing and big band…so I’ll gladly send you some suggestions in terms of great ones to react to, if you’d like. Any genre and time period.
Country Rock. Charlie was a great song writer, and a brilliant instrumentalist. He was also an all-round nice bloke.
American here. This type of music the Irish Immigrants brought this fiddle type music to the south
HELLO, Gentlemen I was in high-school when this song came out. To get a feel for this, the movie URBAN COWBOY, came out. John Travolta was the lead, it was filmed in the biggest bar in the world, Mickey Gillies & Charlie Daniels was the band. It's worth seeing!!!
Good video! I saw Charlie several times in New Orleans in the 70's and 80's!!
I’ve been to some of his concerts and he was such a nice man. He truly was and especially to his fans.❤
Definitely country country does have sub genres and yeah there are electric guitars that make their way into country music
I was a huge fan of his earlier hit Uneasy Rider. It tells a more hippie story. Great reaction as always, sirs!
@capstan50g
That sounds interesting, not sure I know that one, we could have a revisit and see how that one goes.
Thanks for the recommendation.
Great song another song from him and his group is Still in Saigon. As a Viet-Nam myself it musters some good and some bad memories but he puts a country swing on it. Thanks
We knew them as C harlie Daniels and the CDB.
LOve the Bulldog logo Gooooooo Dawgs!
OMG! That’s too funny - Country Rap. I laughed so hard at that but I see your point.
Great! Really enjoyed your reaction. I know exactly what you mean about being in a different world. I think me here on a little island in the middle of the Irish sea is about as far away from that world as you can get! 😂 Thanks to you both for a great lighthearted reaction 🙂
@Becca
Ah yes, but you do have the Bee Gee's to help you with the walk to the paint store!!
Night Fever all the way 😂
You would NOT want to be anywhere near a outhouse lol. My grandmother lived in West Virginia. On the side of a mountain. NO running water. As a child going into it was scary. LOTS OF SPIDERS. Was always afraid I would fall in. Im 70 yrs old now. My grandparents and parents are gone. I have my memories I had the best childhoodbever
If you liked that try the Muppets - The devil went down to Jamaica, who ever put that together is a master
You should react to his Long Haired Country Boy.
An outhouse on a veranda!! Bahaha 🤣
Britts are so Lovely!! LOL...Country rap! That's it. New sub from me. Greetings from Arkansas-USA.😘
@KandyGirl
Hello to you and thank you for the kind comment.
@@BritPopsReact country rock using chant
Dudes, just listen to it. It’s great.
@KiKi Aldrich
We did listen to it and we really enjoyed it, we have to stop the video to comment otherwise it gets blocked.
Cheers
I get it. I apologize if I sounded angry or mad. Apparently I’m just ignorant of the ways of TH-cam. Great content. I will continue watching. 😘
This song is in my top 10 if not top 5 songs of all time
Oh my God thank you so much I totally forgot about that movie Ralph Macchio did thank you so much for reminding me. That was a good movie