Taz DiGregorio of The Charlie Daniels Band Does First Solo Album

our part and were sitting in a hotel room and the phone rang and it was Al Kooper -and he was the guy that had produced Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Sounds of the South and The Southern Blues Project -and he said to Charlie, 'Who is that guy that is playing the B-3?' and Charlie said "Joe," and Al said "That is the guy you need." I had just started and for me that was like getting a Grammy, getting a compliment from Al Kooper. There were lots of other things that have happened and I think it is great to see a 65-year-old man get a hit record like his "This Ain't No Rag , It's a Flag." I am very proud for him.

I got an e-mail and forwarded it to Charlie today from some people stationed in Germany and they are getting ready to be deployed to Afghanistan. They had heard the flag song and entered the contest to win a record and the single. They wrote this thing that would bring tears to your eyes about how much the song meant to them and I wrote back to tell them they did not have to wait to win but that I was sending them one out today. It's amazing what effect that song has had.

We had a lot of songs like that for instance, "Still in Saigon," that prompted death threats for about one year. We had "MIA," that did really hit, a lot of people liked it. We had "In America," which at the time when "In America" was done it was on the West Coast Country Music Awards and we came out to a 60x 80 flag behind us and did it but we did not have the product in the store the next day, so that was a problem. I think that The Charlie Daniels Band has always been a people band and we have always done songs and write songs that people feel close to because of the lyrical content. This song came along at a time when it was needed. Whenever there is any kind of military action like that, I think the entertainers should do there part to let all the people know that go into battle that they are coming out of this alive and well- and that we are praying for them. I am proud of him for coming up with

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