Songs From the Longleaf Pines (2005)

At last, Charlie Daniels is off politics and onto something less polarizing, like religion. With this guest-filled set of acoustic gospel standards and hymns, Daniels, who was raised on the stuff, belatedly jumps back on the string-band bandwagon. His gruff style may take getting used to for those accustomed to the genre's high, lonesome tenors, but that vocal bullishness in blue-grass' china shop is part of the fun.

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