Charlie Daniels (28 October 1936-6 July 2020) was an American country musician from Wilmington, North Carolina. He was already a multi-instrumentalist by the time he graduated from high school in 1955, and his first hit was the 1973 novelty song "Uneasy Rider", followed by the 1979 bluegrass song "The Devil Went Down to Georgia". Daniels was originally associated with the counterculture movement and voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976 (performing at his 1977 inauguration), but, after the 9/11 attacks, he supported a "united America" message and supported the Iraq War. He became a staunch Republican, arguing that Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory would later be treated the same as the flat earth theory, opposed Barack Obama's presidential administration, accused New York of creating a "new Auschwitz" when Governor Andrew Cuomo legalized last-minute abortions in 2019, and supported the NRA (of which he was a member). He died of a hemorrhagic stroke in 2020 at the age of 83.