Homesick Heroes is the fifteenth studio album by
Charlie Daniels and the twelfth as
the Charlie Daniels Band, released on August 15, 1988. The album is known for the band's cover of the
Jimmy Dean classic, "
Big Bad John," which also includes guest harmony vocals by
The Oak Ridge Boys, and for the song "
Uneasy Rider '88" which is musically and thematically similar to their renowned 1973 song "
Uneasy Rider" but with a story set in a Houston, Texas gay bar.
Track listing
All songs written by the Charlie Daniels Band (
Charlie Daniels, Tom Crain,
Taz DiGregorio, Charles Hayward & Jack Gavin), except where noted: