Charlie Daniels is a big fan of Hong Kong, although he's never played here before and last visited the city in October 2007 to celebrate his 70th birthday.
'We had a big party at the Jumbo [restaurant in Aberdeen],' he recalls over the phone from Biloxi, Mississippi, where the Charlie Daniels Band is playing later that night.
'They had a couple of musicians, two young ladies, and they played The Devil Went Down to Georgia on the erhu. I'd never heard it done that way before. It was pretty interesting. I've got very pleasant memories of Hong Kong. I've thoroughly enjoyed both my trips there.'
Daniels' next visit is for another big party. He and his band are headlining the Foreign Correspondents' Club's 8th Annual Charity Ball on September 19 at the Convention and Exhibition Centre, and revellers can expect some hot Southern country rock from some of the style's most seasoned veterans.
Most rock and country fans of a certain age will remember The Devil..., a global smash hit in 1979 when it won Daniels a Grammy for best country vocal performance.
His other work is perhaps less well known outside the US, where he and the band are a top live draw, but Daniels' music first made the charts in 1964 when Elvis Presley had a radio hit with It Hurts Me, a tune he co-wrote with his friend, record producer Bob Johnston.