Nightrider (album) explained

Nightrider
Type:	Album
Artist:	Charlie Daniels Band
Cover:	CharlieDaniels_Nightrider.jpg
Released:	November 25, 1975
Length:	38:57
Label:	Sony
Producer:	Paul Hornsby
Prev Title:	Fire on the Mountain
Prev Year:	1974
Next Title:	Saddle Tramp
Next Year:	1976

Nightrider is the sixth studio album by Charlie Daniels and the third as the Charlie Daniels Band, released on November 25, 1975.

Track listing

All songs composed by the bandleader, Charlie Daniels, except where indicated:

Side one

1. "Texas" - 3:04
2. "Willie Jones" - 3:14
3. "Franklin Limestone" (Tom Crain) - 5:40
4. "Evil" - 2:53
5. "Everything Is Kinda All Right" - 5:11

Side two

1. "Funky Junky" - 5:06
2. "Birmingham Blues" - 4:43
3. "Damn Good Cowboy" - 4:35
4. "Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day" - 3:31

There has been some confusion with the credits for the song "Birmingham Blues" that Charlie Daniels wrote for this 1975 album. In 1977, Jeff Lynne also wrote a song called "Birmingham Blues" for his band, Electric Light Orchestra's album, Out of the Blue, and now Allmusic shows the 1975 Charlie Daniels song as being co-written by Lynne^[1] (but not the other way around), which is nonsensical.

Personnel

The Charlie Daniels Band:^[2]

• Charlie Daniels – banjo, fiddle, guitar, mandolin, vocals
• Taz DiGregorio – keyboards, vocals
• Tom Crain - guitar, vocals
• Charlie Hayward – bass guitar
• Don Murray – drums
• Fred Edwards – drums

Additional musicians:^[2]

• Toy Caldwell – steel guitar on "Damn Good Cowboy"
• Jai Johanny Johanson – Congas on "Everything Is Kinda All Right"

Production personnel:

• Richard Schoff – assistant engineer
• Paul Hornsby – producer

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nightrider - Charlie Daniels, the Charlie Daniels Band | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic. AllMusic.
2. Web site: Charlie Daniels Band, The - Nightrider (Vinyl, LP, Album) at Discogs . September 1975 . www.discogs.com . 2010-08-07 .
3. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 19.