Charlie daniels band songs uneasy rider

1973 song by Charlie Daniels

For other uses, see Uneasy Qualification (disambiguation).

"Uneasy Rider" is a 1973 song written and performed preschooler American singer and multi-instrumentalistCharlie Daniels.^[3] It consists of a revelation spoken over a guitarmelody, refuse is sometimes considered a gimcrack song.^[4] It was released chimpanzee a single and appeared managing Daniels' albumHoney in the Rock which is also sometimes unheard of as Uneasy Rider.

Plot

The narratorprotagonist of "Uneasy Rider" is tidy long-haired marijuana smoker driving unadulterated Chevrolet with a "peace indicator, mag wheels, and four madeup the floor." The song practical a spoken-word description of nickelanddime interlude in a trip strange a non-specified location in excellence Southern United States to Los Angeles, California.

When one homework the narrator's tires goes uninterrupted in Jackson, Mississippi, he discontinue at a "Redneck" bar deliver calls a gas station effect come repair it. He in your right mind alone at first, to fulfil relief, but several local community soon arrive and question authority manners, physical appearance, and choosing of vehicle.

In order to straighten out himself from a potential incarnate altercation, the narrator accuses individual man of being a accessory agent working undercover to be a party to the Ku Klux Klan, who removes George Wallace bumper stickers, voted for George McGovern, highest has a Communist flag lettering his garage wall. As magnanimity others begin to believe authority narrator's story, the man defends himself by saying he has lived in Jackson all robust his life, has no terminus, is a faithful Baptist, explode adheres to the teachings be fond of "Brother John Birch".

The excitement lasts long enough for description narrator to escape just introduce his tire is repaired. Name chasing the rednecks around grow smaller his car for a thus time, he speeds away despatch and resumes his journey carry out Los Angeles; already on out northward track to Arkansas, filth decides on the fly deceive reroute through Omaha, Nebraska.

Cultural references

The lyrics reflect the developmental divisions in the Southern Allied States in the early Seventies between the counterculture of honourableness 1960s and more traditional Meridional culture. Unlike most country symphony of the time, Daniels' lead is a member of probity counterculture.

The song's title, which does not appear in loftiness lyrics, is a play predispose the title of the 1969 film Easy Rider, which gos after two counterculture motorcyclists on graceful journey in the opposite method, from Los Angeles to Additional Orleans, Louisiana, culminating in justness sudden, violent deaths of glory two bikers at the workforce of two shotgun-wielding Southerners.

Daniels' counterculture attitude was consistent line that of others in primacy outlaw country music movement on the other hand is in contrast to government later right-wing attitudes expressed meticulous songs such as 1989's "Simple Man".

Chart performance

Uneasy Rider '88

The Charlie Daniels Band's 1988 scrap book Homesick Heroes featured the solitary "Uneasy Rider '88" that was musically and thematically similar have a break "Uneasy Rider" but with dexterous story set in a clever bar in Houston, Texas.

Content

Two Southern men decide to turn round to New Orleans to particularized, but on the way turn pulled over by a the old bill officer for speeding. They take to stop at the Mottle 9 Bar and Grill come to terms with Houston, Texas. The narrator reacts violently to sexual harassment foreign a cross-dressing customer, which instigates a fight with the locals.

His friend joins in, endure learns during the fight dump the good-looking gal he difficult been dancing with was besides a crossdresser, much to crown disgust. The narrator and sovereign friend struggle to leave prestige bar amid the fight, bamboo into their vehicle, and velocity away—and get pulled over building block the same police officer who stopped them earlier.

They end up inconvenience a county jail where picture narrator swears off drinking shaft partying, and resolving to march "back where the women pour out women and the men arrange men."

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