Charlie Daniels Band Austin City Limits 1981

 

Full Concert Friday this week, featuring The Charlie Daniels Band performing live on Austin City Limits in Austin, Texas, in 1981, on PBS.  The set list is:

1. Funky Junky (a portion of the song is on the tape)

2. Longhaired Country Boy

3. The Legend of Wooley Swamp

4. Lonesome Boy from Dixie

5. Can't You See (Marshall Tucker Band cover, paying tribute to their bassist, Tommy Caldwell, killed in a car accident, in 1980) (feat. 

6. Carolina (I Remember You) (feat. 

7. No Potion for The Pain (feat. Taz DiGregorio: keyboards, & lead vocals)

8. Texas

9. The Devil Went Down To Georgia

10. The South's Gonna Do It, Again (dedicated to Ronnie van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Tommy Caldwell of The Marshall Tucker Band)

Encore:

11. Amazing Grace (John Newton hymn)

12. Will The Circle Be Unbroken? (The Carter Family hymn)

At this time, The Charlie Daniels band was:

Charlie Daniels: guitar, fiddle, lead vocals

Tommy Crain: lead guitar, lead & backing vocals

William "Taz" DiGregorio: keyboards, lead & backing vocals

Jim Arledge: electric piano

Dewey Dorough: keyboards

Charlie Hayward: bass

Fred Edwards: drums

Don Murray: drums

This performance also included a horn section and three backup singers.

Horns:

Rich Tyree: trumpet

Bill Frazier: trumpet

Doug Rinaldo: baritone saxophone

Robb Smith: trombone

Patti Smith: backing vocals

Carolyn Brand: backing vocals

Colleen Peterson: backing vocals

Here too, is the abbreviated version of the concert that aired on Country Music Television in the early 2000s or so.  

The Charlie Daniels Band

Austin City Limits

Originally Aired in 1981

intro

Funky Junkie

Long Haired Country Boy

In America

Legend of Wooley Swamp

Lonesome Boy From Dixie

Can't You See

No Potion for the Pain

Texas

Devil Went Down to Georgia

The South's Gonna Do It Again