“The fingerprints of God were all over my experience,” Charlie Daniels wrote on his Web site, of his recent stroke.
FIDDLER-guitarist Charlie Daniels suffered a mild stroke Friday while snowmobiling near Durango, Colo. He was treated at a local hospital then airlifted to a Denver hospital, where he was released on Sunday.
Daniels, 73, lives in Mount Juliet, Tenn., but has a home in the Durango area where he takes an extended vacation every year around Christmas, his spokeswoman said.
In a posting on his Web site, Daniels said he was snowmobiling with friends when he noticed his left hand getting numb.
"I felt the left side of my mouth starting growing numb and my left foot started getting hard to control and I knew something was happening to me. I knew I'd better get back down the mountain and get some help," he wrote.
He said tests showed the stroke was caused by a blood clot in his brain.
"The fingerprints of God were all over my experience," Daniels wrote, because he wasn't far from the Durango hospital, which had only recently begun stocking the drug used to break up the clot. A plane was immediately available to take him to Denver.
Daniels is best known for his 1979 hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia." The Charlie Daniels Band was awarded a Grammy for best country vocal for the song.
He currently appears in a television ad for Geico Insurance.
Rowdy fun gets too rough
Amy Winehouse pleaded guilty Wednesday to assaulting a theater manager who asked her to leave a family Christmas show starring Mickey Rooney because she'd had too much to drink.
The singer, whose scrapes with the law often overshadow her music, was given a fine and a warning to stay out of trouble.
The 26-year-old singer admitted charges of disorder and common assault during a Dec. 19 performance of the pantomime "Cinderella," in which 89-year-old Rooney played the heroine's father, Baron Hardup.
Audiences at British pantomimes, variety shows that incorporate fairy-tale plots, slapstick humor, cross-dressing and music, are traditionally rambunctious. But prosecutors said Winehouse's behavior went beyond the usual audience participation when she grabbed the theater manager by his hair and muttered obscenities.
It's sort of like Cinderella
A limelight-loving Austrian announced Wednesday that he's taking Lindsay Lohan to the famous Vienna Opera Ball next month.
Richard Lugner, a quirky 77-year-old entrepreneur known for his young girlfriends and appearance on reality TV, invites a different female star to the flashy event each year and keeps local media in suspense for weeks before he divulges his pick. Lugner's recent dates include Nicollette Sheridan, Dita Von Teese and Paris Hilton.
-- From Our Press Services
Today's birthdays
Singer Richie Havens, 69; singer Mac Davis, 68; actress Jill Eikenberry, 63; singer- songwriter Billy Ocean, 60; actor Robby Benson, 54; actress Geena Davis, 54; rapper Levirt of B-Rock and the Bizz, 40; drummer Mark Trojanowski of Sister Hazel, 40; singer Cat Power, 38; DJ Chris Kilmore of Incubus, 37; singer Nokio of Dru Hill, 31.
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