After railing at “pantywaist” judges in the current “A Simple Man,” he dispensed formulas for Constitution-free terminal justice for suspected drug dealers, household intruders and sundry miscreants.
While Daniels still sports both long hair and a beard, the head beneath them has evidently hardened so much that if the Charlie Daniels of ’73 were to fall into the hands of today’s Daniels, he would most likely end up lynched and hanging from a tree.Īnd Daniels made it clear in his late show at the Crazy Horse Steak House on Monday that he has been measuring a lot of necks lately. Those with a fondness for inane novelty songs might recall Charlie Daniels’ first chart entry, “Uneasy Rider” from 1973, in which Daniels talks, a la “A Boy Named Sue,” of the intolerance he faced in a redneck bar when they found there was long hair under his hat.
