Music: Fire from the Mountain

A country fiddler scores with a city boy's great tune

It is a match-up that has all the makings of a barroom brawl. On the right of the room, Charlie Daniels, roof-raising country rocker, the good ole fiddler who a couple of seasons ago sang about the devil going down to Georgia and about solid American spunk: "This lady may have stumbled, but she ain't never fell/ And if the Russians don't believe it, they can all go straight to hell."

On the left of the room, Dan Daley, New York City born and raised, at...

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