Chris Willman Music WriterIt may be a good thing that Charlie Daniels did not live to hear Nickelback’s newly released cover of “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” if only for the language issues.
Performing the 1970s smash live in later years, the famously conservative Daniels would sing the climactic line “You son of a bitch” as “You son of a gun” (as it was heard in the original single radio edit, too)… so he might not cotton to Chad Kroeger amending “Let me show you how it’s done” to “Let me show you how the f— it’s done.”But, of course, the song would not be coming out at all, if not in commemorating the dead of Daniels, who died July 6 at age 83.
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