Essential Super Hits

Essential Super Hits
Compilation album by Charlie Daniels
Released	July 27, 2004
Genre	Country rock, bluegrass, Southern rock
Label	Koch/Blue Hat
Charlie Daniels chronology
Freedom and Justice For All (2003)Freedom and Justice For All2003 Essential Super Hits (2004) Songs From the Longleaf Pines (2005)Songs From the Longleaf Pines2005

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Essential Super Hits is a CD by country rock artist Charlie Daniels. It includes a 5 song DVD video. It was released on July 27, 2004.

The CD is somewhat known for having rerecorded versions of "The Devil Went Down To Georgia", "Still In Saigon", "The South's Gonna Do It", and "Uneasy Rider", and "Long Haired Country Boy." In "The Devil Went Down To Georgia", the line featuring "son of a bitch" is sung as "son of a gun" and in "Uneasy Rider" many of the pop culture references have been updated. In "Long Haired Country Boy" the references to drugs and alcohol have been replaced.

Track listing

CD

1. "The South's Gonna Do It"
2. "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"
3. "Long Haired Country Boy"
4. "Still in Saigon"
5. "Texas"
6. "Drinkin' My Baby Goodbye"
7. "In America"
8. "Simple Man"
9. "This Ain't No Rag, It's a Flag"
10. "Southern Boy"
11. "The Legend of Wooley Swamp"
12. "Free Bird"
13. "Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues"
14. "Uneasy Rider"
15. "Trudy"
16. "The Intimidator"
17. "The Pledge of Allegiance"

Track 17 is unlisted. It is a spoken track where Charlie Daniels recites the Red Skelton monologue about the pledge from 1969.

DVD

1. "Texas"
2. "Long Haired Country Boy"
3. "In America"
4. "Last Fallen Hero"
5. "Southern Boy"

Chart performance

Chart (2004)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	66