Charlie Daniels, country music legend, dead at 83

Charlie Daniels, a country legend who topped the charts with his hit song “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” died Monday at age 83, his rep said.

Daniels, who was a Country Music Hall of Famer, died at a hospital in Hermitage, Tennessee, after he suffered a stroke, doctors said.

He previously experienced a mild stroke in January 2010 then had a heart pacemaker implanted in 2013.

Daniels, a singer, guitarist and fiddler, continued to perform even with his health in decline in recent years.

With Post wires