Charlie Daniels experienced constant career transformations between 1964 and his 2020 passing. In those years, he went from a session musician and backing band member for Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Earl Scruggs and Leonard Cohen to the leader of The Charlie Daniels Band.
Even after the CDB became country and Southern rock royalty, the music and nation Daniels loved kept on changing around him. Yet one important thing remained the same on Daniels’ road to the Country Music Hall of Fame: his wife, Hazel Daniels.
