Homesick Heroes
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Homesick Heroes | ||||
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File:The Charlie Daniels Band - Homesick Heroes - Front.jpg | ||||
Studio album by | ||||
Released | August 15, 1988 | |||
Studio | Eleven Eleven Sound Studios, Sound Stage Studios, Nashville, TN | |||
Length | 38:11 | |||
Label | Epic | |||
Producer | James Stroud | |||
The Charlie Daniels Band chronology | ||||
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Homesick Heroes is the fifteenth studio album by Charlie Daniels and the twelfth as the Charlie Daniels Band, released on August 15, 1988. The album is known for the band's cover of the Jimmy Dean classic, "Big Bad John," which also includes guest harmony vocals by The Oak Ridge Boys, and for the song "Uneasy Rider '88" which is musically and thematically similar to their renowned 1973 song "Uneasy Rider" but with a story set in a Houston, Texas gay bar.
Track listing
All songs written by the Charlie Daniels Band (Charlie Daniels, Tom Crain, Taz DiGregorio, Charles Hayward & Jack Gavin), except where noted:
- "Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues" - 3:2:
- "Alligator" - 3:51
- "Get Me Back to Dixie" (Crain, Rick Rentz) - 3:07
- "Boogie Woogie Man" - 3:52
- "Cowboy Hat in Dallas" - 4:29
- "Big Bad John" (featuring The Oak Ridge Boys) (Jimmy Dean, Roy Acuff) - 3:37
- "Midnight Train" - 4:19
- "Honky Tonk Avenue" - 3:36
- "You Can't Pick Cotton" - 3:51
- "Ill Wind" - 3:35
- "Uneasy Rider '88" - 4:25
Personnel
- Charlie Daniels - banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, lead vocals
- Tom Crain - guitar, background vocals
- Taz DiGregorio - keyboards, background vocals
- Charlie Hayward - bass guitar
- Jack Gavin - drums, percussion
- The Oak Ridge Boys - background vocals on "Big Bad John"
- James Stroud - percussion, background vocals
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ "The Charlie Daniels Band Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
- ^ "The Charlie Daniels Band Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
- ^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1989". Billboard. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
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