Charlie Daniels – Long Haired Country Boy 1975

Charlie Daniels –  Long Haired Country Boy live on Pop Goes The Country 1975. Episode 202 .
The CDB perform Long Haired Country Boy at Volunteer Jam II in at Murphy Center in Murfreesboro, TN on September 12, 1975 with some assistance from Toy Caldwell from The Marshall Tucker Band playing steel guitar.

The Charlie Daniels Band – Long Haired Country Boy Recorded Live: 10/31/1975 – Capitol Theatre – Passaic, NJ

Featuring John Berry and Hal Ketchum from the 1997 Blue Hat Records release, Blues Hat.

“Long Haired Country Boy”– Single by Charlie Daniels Band from the album Fire on the Mountain
B-side:”Sweet Louisiana”
Released: April 1975 (original), January 1980 (re-release)
Label: Sony
Songwriter: Charlie Daniels
Producer: Paul Hornsby
Charted No.56 in US

Charlie Daniels wished he would have rearranged the lyrics from the start. In the original version of “Long Haired Country Boy,” a cut from the band’s 1974 album, Fire on the Mountain, he makes reference to getting “stoned in the morning” and “drunk in the afternoon” in the very first verse. With a Christian background, he soon felt the song didn’t quite suit his beliefs.

He later began swapping out those drug references with “I get up in the morning / I get down in the afternoon.” It means “the same thing,” he noted. He then actually removed the song from their sets altogether. “I did quit doing it for a while. I just quit doing it at all. People kept wanting it, and I felt I could put it back in, so I changed the line. I wish I had done that to start with.”

“Long Haired Country Boy” was initially released as a radio single in 1974. Six years later, it was re-released and became a moderate hit, achieving a No. 27 place finish on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs.