{"id":1305781,"date":"2019-03-13T23:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1804003"},"modified":"2019-03-13T23:00:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T05:00:16","slug":"charlie-daniels-talks-beau-weevils-southern-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/charlie-daniels-talks-beau-weevils-southern-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Daniels Talks Beau Weevils\u2019 Southern Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Lauren Tingle<\/a><\/span> 3\/14\/2019<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

As the Charlie Daniels Band<\/a> hits the road for another year of touring, Daniels continues to explore his vast musical influences with his Beau Weevils band featuring James Stroud, Billy Crain and Charlie Hayward. The group\u2019s debut album, Beau Weevils \u2014 Songs in the Key of E<\/em>, arrived last fall and offers a spectrum of musical stylings heavily steeped in the blues, a genre that\u2019s inescapable growing up in the American south. He describes the project as a \u201cdownhome, swampy rock meets funk with a little taste of \u2019Delta\u2019 type of style.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe songs themselves are very southern,\u201d Daniels tells CMT.com of the Beau Weevils material. \u201cThey\u2019re very southern philosophically, culturally and musically. Charlie\u2019s from Alabama. Billy\u2019s from Tennessee. James is from Louisiana, and I\u2019m from North Carolina. We all had a pretty good taste of that kind of culture and that kind of music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniels adds that the project can be interpreted as an expression of the different music genres that shaped him into the artist he is today.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was exposed to so much different music when I was a kid because the radio stations were not formatted,\u201d Daniels adds \u201cThey played something for everybody \u2014 country, Gospel, big band \u2014 I developed a broad love for all different kinds of music. Basically, when you get down to it, the blues and the offshoots of the blues are the basics of American music that appeal to me the most. It always seems like I end up going back to that \u2026 There\u2019s a mystique and a haunting nature to blues that makes it so great to listen to. It creates a mood like nothing else does.\u201d<\/p>\n

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