Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues

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"Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues"
Single by Charlie Daniels Band
from the album Homesick Heroes
B-side "Working Man You Got It All"
ReleasedAugust 20, 1988
Length3:26
Label Epic
Songwriter(s) Charlie Daniels
Taz DiGregorio
Tom Crain
Charlie Hayward
Jack Gavin
Producer(s) James Stroud
Charlie Daniels Band singles chronology
"Powder Keg"
(1987)
"Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues"
(1988)
"Uneasy Rider '88"
(1988)

"Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues" is a song written and recorded by the Charlie Daniels Band. It was released in August 1988 as the first single from the album Homesick Heroes . The song reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1]

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Chart performance

Chart (1988)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 10
Canadian RPM Country Tracks [3] 10

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 97.
  2. "Charlie Daniels Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  3. "RPM 100 Country Singles" (PDF). RPM. November 12, 1988.