{"id":2831,"date":"2023-06-23T08:18:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T20:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2023-06-23T08:20:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T20:20:28","slug":"i-told-you-once-you-son-of-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2831","title":{"rendered":"I Told You Once You Son of a &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week in 1979 the Charlie Daniels Band released <em>The Devil Went Down to Georgia<\/em> from the album <em>Million Mile Reflections<\/em>. The song tells the story of a young man named Johnny, who makes a deal with the devil. It was the band&#8217;s biggest hit, reaching number 3 on the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Hot 100 and prevented from a higher peak by <em>After the Love Has Gone<\/em> by\u00a0&#8220;Earth, Wind and Fire&#8221;\u00a0and <em>My Sharona <\/em>by\u00a0&#8220;The Knack.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song begins as a disappointed Devil arrives in\u00a0Georgia, apparently &#8220;way behind&#8221; on stealing souls, when he notices a young man named Johnny who is playing a fiddle, and quite well. Out of desperation, the Devil, who claims that he also is a fiddle player, bets a fiddle of gold against Johnny&#8217;s soul to see who is the better fiddler. Although Johnny believes taking the Devil&#8217;s bet might be a\u00a0sin, he fearlessly accepts, confidently boasting that he&#8217;s &#8220;the best that&#8217;s ever been.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen below to hear how the story ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wBjPAqmnvGA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in 1979 the Charlie Daniels Band released The Devil Went Down to Georgia from the album Million Mile Reflections. The song tells the story of a young man named Johnny, who makes a deal with the devil. It was the band&#8217;s biggest hit, reaching number 3 on the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Hot 100 and prevented from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[298],"class_list":["post-2831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-charlie-daniels-band"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2833,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}