Country music star Charlie Daniels, best known for 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia,' has died at 83

Country music scribe Charlie Daniels, best known for the hit 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia,' has died. He was 83.

- Country music scribe Charlie Daniels, best known for the hit"The Devil Went Down to Georgia," has died. He was 83.

With the eponymous Charlie Daniels Band, he and the instrument he's most closely associated with -- the fiddle -- spearheaded a new genre of Southern rock. "I'll give you a little breakdown of our band," Daniels said in 2001."We played with the Rolling Stones years ago in Memphis, in the afternoon and flew down to Austin, Texas, that night and worked the Willie Nelson picnic."

Many of his songs were rooted in patriotism and his deep admiration of the US, which he often called the"greatest country in the world" in his music.More than 30 years later, his outspokenness prompted him to withdraw from the Country Freedom Concert in Nashville, which honored September 11 rescue workers.

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