Tailgate Party

1	The South's Gonna Do It / The Charlie Daniels Band 3:57
2	Pride and Joy / The Charlie Daniels Band 4:03
3	Can't You See / The Charlie Daniels Band 6:26
4	Let Her Cry / The Charlie Daniels Band 4:00
5	Homesick / The Charlie Daniels Band 3:53
6	Keep Your Hands to Yourself / The Charlie Daniels Band 3:12
7	Statesboro Blues / The Charlie Daniels Band 4:22
8	Peach County Jamboree / The Charlie Daniels Band 3:18
9	Sharp Dressed Man / The Charlie Daniels Band 4:46
10	Free Bird / The Charlie Daniels Band 6:38
11	The Legend Of Wooley Swamp / The Charlie Daniels Band Live 5:21
12	El Toreador Live 5:26
13	The Devil Went Down To Georgia / The Charlie Daniels Band Live 3:44

Barnes & Noble

With Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers filling up venues coast to coast, and the Volunteer Jam -- featuring the Charlie Daniels Band, Molly Hatchett, and the Marshall Tucker Band -- rampaging across the country at present, Charlie well may be on to something when he tears through his evergreen "The South's Gonna Do It" to open his sizzling new album, TAILGATE PARTY. This is prime CDB, extolling the joys of southern-fried rock and paying tribute to his compadres along the way with a bunch of blistering covers. The band and its founder are at their absolute peak on TAILGATE PARTY, spiking tight musicianship with that down-and-dirty attitude. The band pays tribute not only to itself with a reprise of its biggest hit, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," but to the Allmans on "Statesboro Blues" and Skynyrd on a terrific version of "Freebird." It also cranks it up on Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Pride and Joy" and ZZ Top's "Sharp Dressed Man." An ass-kicker from first note to last. David McGee

All Music Guide

Charlie Daniels' Tailgate Party serves as his tribute to the great bands of the South. The CD itself rocks from beginning to end, kicking things off with a retelling of his Southern rock & roll call, "The South's Gonna Do It Again." Next up, Daniels pays homage to Stevie Ray Vaughan, ripping through "Pride and Joy," before tipping his substantial hat to Toy Caldwell and the Marshall Tucker Band with "Can't You See." Perhaps the biggest surprise of the set comes when Charlie Daniels covers Hootie & the Blowfish, the pride of Columbia, SC. His rendition of "Let Her Cry" is genuinely nice, and Daniels' cover of Atlanta Rhythm Section's "Homesick" is a brilliant reminder of the power and hard-rocking energy that {|Atlanta Rhythm Section|} possessed. "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" is filled with a maximum dose of good humor, and lots of good old-fashioned Charlie Daniels Band guitar work. The Georgia Satellites would be proud. "Statesborro Blues" serves as Daniels' tribute to the Allman Brothers Band, and the Charlie Daniels Band delivers a rousing rendition of the Grinderswitch hit "Peach County Jamboree." Covering all the Southern bases, ZZ Top's "Sharp Dressed Man" follows, leading into a tender and emotionally charged cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's own tribute to Duane Allman, "Freebird." Following this outstanding salute to the South's greatest players, Daniels and the boys in the band smoke a trio of their own, delivering red-hot versions of their "Legend of Wooley Swamp," "El Toreador," and "The Devil Went Down to Georgia." Michael B. Smith