Simple Man (Charlie Daniels album)
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Simple Man is a studio album by The Charlie Daniels Band
Charlie Daniels
Charles Edward "Charlie" Daniels is an American musician known for his contributions to country and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his number one country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written. Daniels has been active as a singer...

 released on October 17, 1989.

Track listing

  1. "(What This World Needs Is) A Few More Rednecks" (Daniels, DiGregorio
    Joel DiGregorio
    William Joel "Taz" DiGregorio was a longtime member and keyboardist for the Charlie Daniels Band. He was self-taught on the keyboards, practicing from tunes by Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, and Little Richard following his attendance at a Ray Charles concert.-Musical career:He fulfilled his goal of...

    , Gavin, Hayward) - 3:44
  2. "Was It 26" (Sampson) - 3:50
  3. "Oh Atlanta" (Daniels, DiGregorio, Gavin, Hayward) - 3:19
  4. "Midnight Wind" (Crain, Daniels, DiGregorio, Edwards, Hayward) - 3:20
  5. "Saturday Night Down South" (Daniels, DiGregorio, Gavin, Hayward) - 3:04
  6. "Play Me Some Fiddle" (Daniels, DiGregorio, Gavin, Hayward) - 4:25
  7. "Simple Man
    Simple Man (Charlie Daniels song)
    "Simple Man", is the title of a song written and recorded by the Charlie Daniels Band. It was released in August 1989 as the lead single from their 1989 album of the same name Simple Man...

    " (Daniels, DiGregorio, Gavin, Hayward) - 3:24
  8. "Old Rock 'N Roller" (Daniels, DiGregorio, Gavin, Hayward) - 2:58
  9. "Mister DJ" (Crain, Daniels, DiGregorio, Edwards, Hayward) - 3:52
  10. "It's My Life" (Crain, Daniels, DiGregorio, Edwards, Hayward) - 3:32

Album

Chart (1989) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 2
U.S. Billboard 200 82

Singles

Year Single Peak positions
US Country
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

CAN Country
RPM (magazine)
RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...

1989 "Simple Man" 12 15
1990 "Mister DJ" 34 45
"(What This World Needs Is) A Few More Rednecks" 56 78
"Oh Atlanta"

Personnel

The Charlie Daniels Band:
  • Charlie Daniels
    Charlie Daniels
    Charles Edward "Charlie" Daniels is an American musician known for his contributions to country and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his number one country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written. Daniels has been active as a singer...

     - Guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    , fiddle
    Fiddle
    The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...

    , vocals
  • Bruce Ray Brown - Guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    , vocals
  • Joel "Taz" DiGregorio - keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

  • Julian King - trumpet
    Trumpet
    The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

  • Jack Gavin - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

  • Charles Hayward - Bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....


Production

  • Producer: James Stroud
  • Engineer: Lynn Peterzell
  • Assisted by: Julian King, Tom Oates
  • Cover photographer: David Michael Kennedy
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