{"id":9322,"date":"2020-07-13T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T19:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=9322"},"modified":"2020-07-13T08:35:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T12:35:58","slug":"celebrating-charlie-daniels-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/07\/celebrating-charlie-daniels-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Charlie Daniels Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OKCnBPFTzgQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Charlie Daniels&#8217; life was celebrated with a funeral at World Outreach Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee on Friday, July 10th.<\/p>\n<p>The event was open to the public, and fans turned out in droves.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral included a colour guard march to Daniels&#8217; casket with the U.S. and Tennessee flags, while former U.S. Marine Mark \u201cOz&#8221; Geist recited the pledge of allegiance.<\/p>\n<p>Guest performers who took the stage to pay tribute to the late Country Music Hall of Fame and Grand Ole Opry member included Trace Adkins, who performed the patriotic \u201cArlington;\u201d Vince Gill, who sang \u201cGo Rest High on That Mountain,\u201d and \u201cAmerica the Beautiful;\u201d Travis Tritt, who led the congregation in \u201cAmazing Grace;\u201d and Gretchen Wilson, who honoured Daniels with the gospel classic \u201cI\u2019ll Fly Away\u201d while accompanied on piano by Christian artist Michael W. Smith.<\/p>\n<p>While he wasn&#8217;t in attendance at the funeral, Chris Young says he is among the many who will miss not only the music but the friendship of Charlie Daniels.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Charlie Daniels was truly one of a kind, not only for his music, which I can\u2019t tell you how many times I\u2019ve either sung along to and or got up with the band and performed \u201cDevil Went Down To Georgia\u201d somewhere. And that\u2019s just one song of his incredible catalogue but, also who he was as a human being. Just how kind he was to other artists, people who were coming up behind him, that looked up to him, and obviously everything he\u2019s done with the military \u2026 I was lucky to know him. And, uh, yeah he\u2019ll be sorely missed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Following the service, Daniels was buried at Mt. Juliet Memorial Gardens in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels passed away on Monday, July 6th at Summit Medical Center in Hermitage, Tennessee at the age of 83 after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Daniels&#8217; life was celebrated with a funeral at World Outreach Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee on Friday, July 10th.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":9330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1861,369,2095,1017,2096,810,1224,296,93],"class_list":["post-9322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-charlie-daniels","tag-chris-young","tag-funeral","tag-gretchen-wilson","tag-murfreesboro","tag-tennessee","tag-trace-adkins","tag-travis-tritt","tag-vince-gill"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 04:04:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/07\/celebrating-charlie-daniels-life\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}