1988: Homesick Heroes is issued out of CBS/Nashville and results in a Top 10 record on the country charts: "Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues."

1990: Simple Man is issued and rises to #2 on the country charts. The album is ignited by the title single, in which a simple man ("with simple attitudes," Daniels explains) calls for the lynching of drug-dealers and slow deaths by the way of gators and snakes for murders, child abusers and rapists. The song gets Daniels onto numerous talk shows, where he's asked to explain himself. He wrote the song, he says, "out of frustration." He's read about the scandalous case in which a child was killed by her stepfather. "I know how I feel about it; I know what I'd like to do. Some of it's kind of tounge-in-cheek; it's a knee-jerk reaction. I don't really want to take people out and leave them in swamps...But violent crimes--that's what that song's about."

Daniels is also the subject of a long-form music video, Charlie Daniels: Homefolks and Highways.

The CBD released its first holiday album, Christmas Time Down South.

1991: Renegade is released, and Daniels announces the return of the Volunteer Jam in May in Nashville. "We took a three and a half year look at it and feel that we're ready to do it again," says Daniels. As always the VJ will provide a stage for a wide mix of music, including B.B. King, Steppenwolf, Tanya Tucker, and, of course, The Charlie Daniels Band.

1992: Charlie Daniels signs a new record deal with Liberty Records. Daniels says, "I have been a long time admirer of Jimmy Bowen. I like his style; we both kind of came to Nashville as renegades...Jimmy runs a different kind of record company - an energetic record company...Jimmy wants the Charlie Daniels Band to sound like us and be what we are. That means an awful lot to us." Bowen says, "Charlie Daniels is a trend setter and an innovator. We at Liberty are proud to have him recording for us and look forward to a long association."

1993: Liberty Records releases the first Charlie Daniels album in April, titled, America, I Believe In You, and commences on a tour. Dickies workwear, out of Ft. Worth, Texas signs Daniels as a celebrity spokesman for the second year and announces their involvement as a sponsor of the 1993 tour.

1994: Charlie Daniels releases his first Christian album on Sparrow Records, titled, The Door. Produced by Ron Griffin, the project centers around material written by Charlie and the band, and includes a co-written song with Grammy Award winner Steven Curtis Chapman. "Sunday Morning," the first single release to Christian Country radio takes the #1 slot on the Positive Country chart. A video is released for the single "Two Out Of Three," and is voted Video of the Year for the Christian Country Music Association. Charlie and Chris LeDoux celebrate Christmas, cowboy-style, through song and story at Charlie's home, Twin Pines Ranch where "A Wrangler Cowboy Christmas" television special is taped for TNN with Charlie, Chris, Baxter Black, Diamond Rio and Linda Davis.

1995: Charlie Daniels is named Cashbox Magazine's BestPositive Christian Country Performance by a Seclar Artist for 1994. He receives a Dove Award and a Grammy nomination for his Christian album, The Door, and inks another contract to host the nationwide talent search television show, Charlie Daniels' Talent Roundup on TNN: The Nashville Network. A tour is set with Charlie, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Travis Tritt.