>> no joke. >> the amazing charlie daniels. >> yes.real deal. >>> that music tv. >> who does not love this tune, "the devil went down to georgia," the signature song of the charlie daniels band which won them a grammy. >> you can say charlie's career picked up ten years prior to that when the great bob dylan hired him as a session music in nashville. >> now he's taking tribute to dylan's music "off the grid: doing it dylan". >> tell us a little bit. i spoke to you at length. i had no idea this was part of your past. >> you were a dylan fan. >> well, yeah. i've been a dylan fan for a long time. i was in nashville in 1969 and bob dylan was coming into town to do a national skyline. and everybody was talking about it. and they wanted to -- i wanted to play on a session. and, well, look at me. but i was only supposed to play in one session and had another guitar player coming in. when the session was over and i was packing up, bob dylan asked bob johnson, the producer, where is he going? he said, i have another guitar player coming in. he

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. >> who does not love this tune, "the devil went down to georgia," the signature song of the charlie danielshe outlaw you look like in that picture. >> i look like an outkast. >> no. tell us a little bit. i spoke to you at length. i had no idea this was part of your past. >> you were a dylan fan. >> well, yeah. i've been a dylan fan for a long time. i was in nashville in 1969 and bob dylan was coming in to town to do a national skyline. >> i'm sure everybody was talking about it. >> yeah, everybody was talking about it. and they wanted to -- i wanted to play on a session. and, well, look at me. but i was only supposed to play in one session and had another guitar player coming in. when the session was over and i was packing up, bob dylan asked bob johnson, the producer, where is he going? he said, i have another guitar player coming in. he said i don't want another guitar player, i want him. >> wow. >> it was the greatest nine words that ever had been spoken over me at the time. >> you ended up doing two albums with him. >> three albums, yeah. altogether. national skyline, self-portrait and

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one of my favorite tweets came from charlie daniels.as tweeting all over the place. >> is this the charlie daniels? >> it is. he said, is the bundy ranch situation the first test of military against citizens? big government is dangerous. >> that's what i took away from this, the degree of militarization. we sense something has changed with cops no longer in blue with .38 revolvers. >> there's a hunt against them, and i think in this instance the american people showed the federal government that when push comes to shove with the constitution, folks aren't going to back down. >> and this announcement from the bln that they are pulling out and going to be releasing all the cattle there, but what is next? it's not over yet. >> no, i suspect there's going to be a big court battle. and we'll see how this plays out. here's my take on it, guys, i think farmer bundy should have told them this is an act of love. >> an act of love. >> you have a new book coming out in fewer than two weeks? >> that's right. "god less america." >> congratulations.

. >> charlie: there is this with lincoln and the great performance we saw by daniel lewis who won an emy award. he had photographs and history books. but you had a very live multi-volume biography. >> yes. >> charlie: you had audio recordings. >> yes. >> charlie: people who knew him. >> right. >> charlie: video of him in action and speeches -- >> so there's no excuse for me to be bad. is that where you're going with that? (laughter) >> charlie: i mean, this was a piece of cake! i mean, come on! (laughter) but there's this, he is my height, 6'3" or 4. you are less than that. >> i'm just at 6'. >> charlie: but everyone talks about that, that they sense the towering presence of him. how did you come up with the idea of being able to suggest that lyndon johnson physically towered over those people? >> 3-inch lifts. i have shoes that i have lifts in. i'll tell you a secret. last night i had another conversation with the head of wardrobe, jessica, and i said, i want you to go into everyone's wardrobe, grab their shoes and take the heels of their shoes down another inch. don't even tell them

charlie: and you've proven your bond, so to speak. >> yes, but i also started a number of stories that were incomplete. i casted new characters. daniel -- there was a missing piece, now. i felt there was a way to create a second part of a two-part story, and then i started to get reinterested in it again. when they agreed to wait a little longer and not go immediately and with two movies but with one which i felt very strongly about -- >> charlie: so this is almost a continuation of the story? theatrical? >> not a theatrical narrative. >> charlie: but a continuation of the characters and parts. >> for the first time, characters were allowed to age and acknowledge the passing of the years and the history in a kind of sly, misachieves way, the history of the franchise. coming out with the bomb theme. the noise the audience made the first time i sat with the audience at that point made me want to do it all over again because that was my 12-year-old self that loved that moment and that car. >> charlie: which brings me to this story. i'm reading about you and the great judi dench, and you were a whipper snapper of a director about 23 year