Volunteer Jam II
also known as "Volunteer Jam '75"
Charlie Daniels & Friends
air dates in late November, 1975
Special guests included The Marshall Tucker Band, Dickey Betts and Chuck Leavell from the Allman Brothers Band, Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and Dru Lombar from Grinderswitch
Recorded at:
Charles M. Murphy Athletic Center
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN
September 12, 1975
CD 1: Reels 1 and 3
01 Ron Huntsman - Intro
02 Charlie Daniels & Friends - Whiskey
03 Charlie Daniels & Friends - Trudy
04 Charlie Daniels & Friends - No Place To Go
05 Ron Huntsman - Break
06 Charlie Daniels & Friends - Long Haired Country Boy
07 Charlie Daniels & Friends - Birmingham Blues
08 Charlie Daniels & Friends - Funky Junky
09 Charlie Daniels & Friends - Texas
10 Charlie Daniels & Friends - The South's Gonna Do It Again
11 Charlie Daniels & Friends - Orange Blossom Special
12 Ron Huntsman - Break
CD 2: Reels 3 and 4
13 Charlie Daniels & Friends - Twenty-Four Hours
14 Charlie Daniels & Friends - The Thrill Is Gone
15 Ron Huntsman - Break
16 Charlie Daniels & Friends - (cuts in) Jelly Blues
17 Charlie Daniels & Friends - Sweet Mama
18 Charlie Daniels & Friends - Mountain Dew
19 Ron Huntsman - Credits
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Digitized from the four original radio reels. We have pictures of the reel boxes but no cue sheets.
The start of "Jelly Blues" is cut off. We checked, that's how it was on the reel. It is likely the tape broke at some point...it is 51 years old... so we're missing a few seconds at the start of the song. We apologize for this to you and beg your forgiveness for sharing something less than perfect.
I found radio listings showing a broadcast on Tampa's WQSR-FM on November 15, 1975. Cleveland's WMMS-FM and Buffalo's WBUF ran this show on Nov. 30, 1979. Columbia, Missouri's KFMZ was a straggler with a New Year's Show on Dec. 31, 1975.
A movie was released a year later in October 1976 and promoted as the "First Full-Length Southern Rock Motion Picture." I ran a search on Newspapers.com, as I don't remember the movie at all. The results show movie listings clustered in Tennessee, Kentucky, the Carolinas, and Georgia...and no theatres outside those states.
A mention in Billboard says the film will run "at Martin theatres in Tennessee, Kentucky, and other Southeastern states."
The Martin Theatre Company operated sixty-five theatres and drive-ins in Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina, Florida, and Alabama.
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That explains why I never heard of the movie. It didn't play out here in California.
The concert was released on DVD (note the different running order compared to the radio show).
Now... we all know Mr. Daniels' "The Devil Went Down To Georgia." The song is one of those that crossed over into popular culture. In the episode "Hell Is Other Robots" of "Futurama" they had the Robot Devil reveal that The Fairness in Hell Act of 2275 states the Robot Devil must inform people they can rescue robots from Robot Hell if they beat the Robot Devil in a fiddle contest by playing a Solid Gold Fiddle. The winner receives the fiddle and the robot. If you lose, you get a smaller, silver fiddle and you're killed.
So... I was trying to get my computer to find an image of the Robot Devil from Futurama and my STuPId computer used AI to create its own picture of a robot devil. Which I actually thought was like pretty groovy, man, so I'm posting it here, even though I'm opposing the AIfication of Everything.
Hey! I just coined a new word! AIfication!
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About the announcer:
Ron Huntsman was a prominent figure in country music broadcasting, known for his work as a programmer, producer, syndicator, and announcer. He began his career in the U.S. Air Force, working for Armed Forces Radio while stationed in the Azores. After returning to the U.S., he worked in radio stations in Denver, Kansas City, and Wichita before moving to Nashville in 1971 as program director for WKDA-AM & Rock WKDA (now WKDF).