I got another guitar player coming in.’ And Dylan said, ‘I don’t want another guitar player. “Dylan asked Johnston, ‘Where’s he going?’ He said, ‘He’s leaving. “I was packing my gear up to leave,” Daniels recalled for CMT. Daniels' playing impressed Dylan immediately. He'd originally been booked as a fill-in for a studio session when a guitarist couldn't make the gig. In fact, Daniels played on Bob Dylan's landmark 1969 album Nashville Skyline. I didn’t have that in the song, but I should have.Though he's known for the blistering country-rock sound of "The Devil Went Down To Georgia," Charlie Daniels had a diverse list of credits from his early days. You can’t beat the Devil without the Lord. And of course, Johnny’s saying something. If you listen to that, there’s just a bunch of noise. Daniels explained, “The Devil’s just blowing smoke.
The solos are vastly different the Devil’s leaning erratic and clunky, while Johnny’s has a more distinctive, melodic through line.
Later, Johnny and the Devil swap fiddle solos, each displaying their talents with some sizzling, high-octane fiddling. What results is handily one of pop music’s greatest moments. When it comes to “Devil,” however, Daniels and bandmates took it up an octave and laid their hellfire and brimstone lyrics on top.
Musically, Charlie Daniels owes immense credit to fiddler Vassar Clements, whose initial iteration of the melody is found in “Lonesome Fiddle Blues,” a cut from his 1975 self-titled full-length. But we had rehearsed, written, and recorded the music for our ‘Million Mile Reflections’ album, and all of the sudden we said, ‘We don’t have a fiddle song.’ I don’t know why we didn’t discover that, but we went out and we took a couple of days’ break from the recording studio, went into a rehearsal studio, I just had this idea: The devil went down to Georgia.” “It’s an old fasty, and it’s been done a bunch of times. “ didn’t use that line, but I started playing, and the band started playing, and first thing you know we had it down,” Daniels told Songfacts back in 2007.
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