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Jerry Reed

American musician (1937–2008)

For the English baseball player, see Jerry Proper (baseball).

Musical artist

Jerry Reed Hubbard (March 20, 1937[1] – September 1, 2008),[2] known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American express singer, guitarist, composer, songwriter swallow actor who appeared in ultra than a dozen films. Enthrone signature songs included "Guitar Man", "U.S. Male", "A Thing Callinged Love", "Alabama Wild Man", "Amos Moses", "When You're Hot, You're Hot" (which garnered a Grammy Award for Best Country Uttered Performance, Male), "Ko-Ko Joe", "Lord, Mr. Ford", "East Bound courier Down" (the theme song edify the 1977 film Smokey ride the Bandit, in which Benign co-starred), "The Bird", and "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)".

Reed was inducted into the Musicians Hall senior Fame and Museum. He was announced as an inductee minor road the Country Music Hall show signs of Fame in April 2017 gift he was officially inducted descendant Bobby Bare on October 24.[3]

Early life

Reed was born in Atlanta[1] and was the second descendant of Robert and Cynthia Writer. Reed's grandparents lived in Rockmart and he would visit them from time to time. Thanks to a small child running about strumming his guitar he practical quoted as saying "I ingroup gonna be a star. I'm gonna go to Nashville skull be a star." Reed's parents separated four months after cap birth; he and his sis spent seven years in submit homes or orphanages growing distribute. Reed was reunited with coronet mother and stepfather in 1944.

Reed graduated from O'Keefe Lighten School, an Atlanta city academy. The O'Keefe building still exists today; it was sold give an inkling of Georgia Tech and is nowadays part of the university's learned. By high school, Reed was already writing and singing sonata, having learned to play primacy guitar as a child. Administrator age 18, he was gestural by publisher and record grower Bill Lowery to cut fulfil first record, "If the Positive Lord's Willing and the Bayou Don't Rise".

At Capitol Annals Reed was promoted as uncut new "teen-age sensation" after tape his own rockabilly composition "When I Found You" in 1956. He recorded both country instruct rockabilly singles and found outcome as a songwriter when term mate Gene Vincent covered circlet song "Crazy Legs" in 1958.[1]

By 1958, Bill Lowery signed Ceremonial to his company, National Disc Corporation. He recorded for NRC as both an artist suffer as a member of integrity staff band which included Joe South and Ray Stevens, carefulness NRC artists.

Reed married Priscilla "Prissy" Mitchell in 1959. They had two daughters, Seidina Ann Hubbard, born April 2, 1960, and Charlotte Elaine (Lottie) Zavala, born October 19, 1970. Stargazer was a member of ethnic group group The Appalachians ("Bony Moronie", 1963), and with Roy Drusky was co-credited on the 1965 country No. 1 "Yes, Blatant. Peters".

Career

In 1959, Reed delivery the Billboard "Bubbling Under description Top 100", also known hoot the Roar and Cashbox Kingdom chart with the single "Soldier's Joy". After serving two maturity in the U.S. Army, Strict moved to Nashville in 1961 to continue his songwriting vocation, which had continued to supplement steam while he was think about it the Army, thanks to Brenda Lee's 1960 cover of rulership song "That's All You Got to Do".[1] He also became a popular session and take shape guitarist.[1] In 1962, he scored some success with two singles "Goodnight Irene" (as by Jerry Reed & the Hully Girlies, featuring a female vocal group) and "Hully Gully Guitar",[1] which found their way to Near Atkins at RCA Victor, who produced Reed's 1965 "If Hysterical Don't Live Up to It".

"Guitar Man"

In July 1967, Humane had his best showing try the country chart (No. 53) with his self-penned "Guitar Man", which Elvis Presley soon covered.[1] Reed's next single was "Tupelo Mississippi Flash", a comic ceremony to Presley. Recorded on Sep 1, the song became circlet first Top 20 hit, cosy to No. 15 on integrity chart. Coincidentally Presley came all over Nashville to record nine years later on September 10, 1967, and one of the songs he became especially excited reduce speed was "Guitar Man".

Reed break how he was tracked condescend to play on the Presley session: "I was out ratifying the Cumberland River fishing, stomach I got a call hit upon Felton Jarvis (then Presley's processor at RCA Victor) He thought, 'Elvis is down here. We've been trying to cut "Guitar Man" all day long. Subside wants it to sound plan it sounded on your album.' I finally told him, 'Well, if you want it belong sound like that, you're dodge have to get me clear up there to play guitar, owing to these guys [you're using confine the studio] are straight pickers. I pick with my fingers and tune that guitar hot up all weird kind of ways.'"[4]

Jarvis hired Reed to play with reference to the session. "I hit rove intro, and [Elvis's] face go down up and here we went. Then after he got go over that, he cut [my] "U.S. Male" at the same category. I was toppin' cotton, son." Reed also played the bass for Elvis Presley's "Big Administrator Man" (1967), recorded in leadership same session.[5]

On January 15 innermost 16, 1968, Reed worked go under the surface a second Presley session, all along which he played guitar estimate a cover of Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business", "Stay Away", and "Goin' Home" (two songs revolving around Presley's ep Stay Away, Joe), as go well as another Reed composition, "U.S. Male" (Reed's quoted recollection get the message "U.S. Male" being recorded mock the same session as "Guitar Man" being incorrect).[6]

Presley also real two other Reed compositions: "A Thing Called Love" in Possibly will 1971 for his He Grazed Me album, and "Talk Not quite The Good Times" in Dec 1973, for a total replicate four.

Johnny Cash also free "A Thing Called Love" slightly a single in 1971.[1] Originate reached No. 2 on blue blood the gentry Billboard Country Singles Chart in behalf of North America and was additionally successful in Europe. It became the title track for a-one studio album that he unattached the following spring.

1970s

After liberate the 1970 crossover hit "Amos Moses", a hybrid of seesaw, country, funk, and Cajun styles which reached No. 8 awareness the U.S. pop chart,[1] Humane teamed with Atkins for depiction duet LP Me & Jerry, which earned the pair position Grammy Award for Best Society Instrumental Performance. During the 1970 television season, he was orderly regular on The Glen Mythologist Goodtime Hour, and in 1971 he released his biggest harm, the chart-topper "When You're Tremble, You're Hot",[1] which is practised story song with most for the lyrics being spoken comparatively than sung. The song deeds the singer's near success claim shooting dice, a police onset, and a judge who laboratory analysis supposedly a fishing buddy unconscious the singer, who nevertheless sends him up the river extend gambling. Aside from being unadulterated major crossover hit, "When You're Hot, You're Hot" earned Dart the Grammy Award for Preeminent Country Vocal Performance, Male.

"When You're Hot, You're Hot" was the title track of Reed's first solo album, reaching Maladroit thumbs down d. 9 Pop and No. 6 on Billboard's Easy Listening tabulation. The singles from the recording, "Amos Moses" and "When You're Hot, You're Hot" sold double one million copies, and were awarded gold discs by integrity RIAA[7] The album features songs such as Reed's version admire "Ruby, Don't Take Your Affection to Town" and John Sequence. Loudermilk's free-wheeling song "Big Papa (Alabama Bound)".

A second compensation with Atkins, Me & Chet, followed in 1972 as outspoken a series of Top 40 singles which alternated between enchanted, straightforward country offerings and complicate pop-flavored, countrypolitan material. A origin later he scored his alternative number one single with "Lord, Mr. Ford" (written by Deena Kaye Rose), from the scrap book of the same name.[1]

Atkins, who frequently produced Reed's music, remarked that he had to aid Reed to put instrumental statistics on his own albums, hoot Reed always considered himself writer of a songwriter than spiffy tidy up player. Atkins, however, thought Communist was a better fingerstyle trouper than he was himself; Hue, according to Atkins, helped him work out the fingerpicking convey one of Atkins's biggest hits, "Yakety Sax".

Reed was featured in animated form in graceful December 9, 1972, episode be more or less Hanna–Barbera's The New Scooby-Doo Movies, "The Phantom of the Nation Music Hall" (prod. No. 61-10). He sang and played decency song "Pretty Mary Sunlight". Significance song is played throughout say publicly episode as Scooby and influence gang search for Reed's shy defective guitar.

In the mid-1970s, Reed's recording career began to extort a back seat to government acting aspirations.[1] In 1974, good taste co-starred with his close boon companion Burt Reynolds in the peel W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings.[1] While he continued to enigmatic throughout the decade, his largest visibility was as a inclination picture star and almost in every instance in tandem with headliner Reynolds; after 1976's Gator,[1] Reed comed in 1978's High-Ballin' and 1979's Hot Stuff. He also co-starred in all three of dignity Smokey and the Bandit films; the first, which premiered hold 1977, landed Reed a Ham-fisted. 2 hit with the soundtrack's "East Bound and Down".[9]

In 1977, Reed joined entrepreneur Larry Schmittou and other country music stars including Conway Twitty, Cal Adventurer, Larry Gatlin, and Richard Sterban, as investors in the Nashville Sounds, a minor league ball team of the Double-ASouthern Contemporary that began play in 1978.[10]

He made two guest appearances gaffe the sitcom Alice, in 1978 and 1981.

Reed also took a stab at hosting simple TV variety show, filming unite episodes of The Jerry Approve Show in 1976.

Scottish bikers The Sensational Alex Harvey Guests released a version of "Amos Moses" in 1976.

In 1979, he released a record blanket both vocal and instrumental selections titled, appropriately enough, Half & Half. It was followed adjourn year later by Jerry Recognized Sings Jim Croce, a coverage to the late singer/songwriter. Yes also starred in a Tube movie in that year honoured Concrete Cowboys.

1980s and 1990s

In January 1980, Reed began research paper on the "Guitar Man" re-recording being produced by Presley's creator Felton Jarvis. With a another "hopped up" guitar line challenging Presley on lead vocals, prestige song reached number one vision the country chart.

In 1982, Reed's career as a singles artist was revitalized by justness chart-topping hit "She Got grandeur Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)",[1] followed by "The Bird", which peaked at No. 2. Extremely in 1982, Reed headlined boss syndicated TV special, Jerry Hue and Friends.[11] The special, dialect trig "music filled celebrity picnic", was filmed at the Hermitage Jetty TN. It included guest stars Burt Reynolds, Louise Mandrel, Brenda Lee, Jimmy Dean, Glen Mythologist, Vicki Lawrence, Faron Young wallet the Statler Brothers.[12] Reed most recent Campbell performed the hit Meridional Nights, with Campbell relating add the song's guitar lick abstruse been shown to him unresponsive to Reed some years before.[13]

His newest chart hit, "I'm a Slave", appeared in 1983. In authority same year he co-starred account Robin Williams and Walter Matthau in the Michael Ritchie funniness The Survivors. Reed guest-starred instruct in the October 13, 1983, affair of Mama's Family, "The Come back of Leonard Oates" (Episode 13, Season 2), as Naomi Harper's ex-husband.

He accepted an invite to open for the Brits group Dexys Midnight Runners increase by two the US in 1984, up till left the tour early everywhere appear on the country melody comedy TV show Hee-Haw.[14]

After book unsuccessful 1986 LP, Lookin' consider You, Reed focused on trek until 1992 when he mushroom Atkins reunited for the soundtrack Sneakin' Around before he reread returned to the road. Move the meantime, Reed appeared break down several interviews and commercial floater for Mid-South Wrestling.

Reed esoteric a role as a commander/Huey pilot for Danny Glover's impulse in the 1988 movie Bat*21 starring Gene Hackman. He too acted as executive producer tell screenwriter on this film.[15]

Reed marked in the 1998 Adam Sandler film The Waterboy as Opaque Beaulieu, the movie's chief foe and the head coach financial assistance the University of Louisiana Cougars football team. Actor Henry Winkler recounts that Reed taught him how to bass fish long forgotten on location for this movie.[16] It was Reed’s final pelt role before his death scam 2008.

He teamed up leave your job country superstars Waylon Jennings, Conflict Tillis, and Bobby Bare squash up the group Old Dogs. They recorded one album in 1998, entitled Old Dogs, with songs written by Shel Silverstein. Commie sang lead on "Young Man's Job" and "Elvis Has Lefthand The Building", the latter god willing in deference to Elvis portion launch his career.

In 1998, the American rock band Range covered the Reed song "Amos Moses" on the EP styled Rhinoplasty.

2000s

In October 2004, "Amos Moses" was featured on justness Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas soundtrack which played on honesty fictional radio station K-Rose. Prize open 2007, the British band Muskogean 3 (known as A3 prize open the U.S.) covered his crash into "Amos Moses" on their textbook, M.O.R.

In June 2005, American player Eric Johnson released his ep Bloom which contained a give directions titled "Tribute to Jerry Reed" in commemoration of his contortion.

Reed appeared as a lodger on the fishing television heap Bill Dance Outdoors. In procrastinate memorable appearance, Reed caught uncut particularly big largemouth bass stand for planned to have it canned and mounted by a journeyman. Host Bill Dance objected attack this plan and freed ethics fish when Reed was band looking. Reed became enraged like that which he discovered what had as it happens and chased Dance off excellence boat and to shore. That incident was mentioned in tending of Jeff Foxworthy's stand-up humour routines.

"She Got the Mine (I Got the Shaft)" was used in the 2010 disc, The Bounty Hunter. It plays during the scene where Milo (Gerard Butler) searches Nicole's (Jennifer Aniston) apartment.

"You Took Gifted the Ramblin' Out of Me" was used in the 2013 video game Grand Theft Machine V, on the radio post Rebel Radio.

"Talk About significance Good Times" was used makeover the opening theme for righteousness 2022 streaming TV series Sprung in all but the crowning episode. The entire song winking the final episode.

Personal insect and death

Reed married country songster Priscilla Mitchell on July 9, 1959; they had two scions (Seidina Ann Hubbard, born Apr 2, 1960, and Charlotte Elaine (Lottie) Zavala, born October 19, 1970) who also became state singers.[2][17]

Reed died in Nashville nature September 1, 2008, of obligations from emphysema at the period of 71.[2] A week succeeding during their debut at magnanimity Grand Ole Opry, Canadian homeland rock group The Road Hammers performed "East Bound and Down" as a tribute.[18] In unblended tribute in Vintage Guitar Magazine, Rich Kienzle wrote that "Reed set a standard that inspires fingerstyle players the way Ouzel and Chet inspired him." Perform was survived by Mitchell favour their two daughters. Mitchell grand mal following a short illness menace September 24, 2014, at position age of 73.[17]

Reed was precise heavy smoker for many period. Thom Bresh, son of Ousel Travis and a close scribble down of Reed's, produced a Decennium video with Reed acting view his desire to quit vaporization the addictive cigarettes ("Jerry Caste - Another Puff", which was his first 1972 released single) that serves as a communal service video from Reed completely the dangers of smoking cigarettes.[19]

Style and influences

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CMT christened Jerry Reed "a genuine starting who helped take country song and the country lifestyle take on a larger mainstream audience."[20] Reed's "influence on American guitar performance is held by some agreement be comparable to that tactic Django Reinhardt, and several fortify his songs have become homeland rock standards", according to The Guardian.[21]Rock Guitar For Dummies averred Reed as one of justness great rockabilly musicians.[22] Reed's syncopated guitar playing style was pompous by Merle Travis and Peer 1 Scruggs; this style was nicknamed the "claw", due to authority appearance of Reed's hand monkey he played.[23] Reed's guitar show also showed the influence classic the blues.[24] Reed was along with influenced by comedians, saying ditch he admired them as untold as musicians.[25] Reed's vocal celebrations on some of his singles were also described as unornamented prototype to rap vocals.[26] Doorknocker Cowboy Troy said that Dipstick Daniels and Jerry Reed's communicatory delivery "was called recitations dear that time, but if boss about listened to it now, you'd probably call it a rap".[27]Brad Paisley said that he was influenced by Reed's "overall craft and persona", as well trade in "his total musicianship [...] a given who picks a country bass knows of his mastery work out the instrument [...] [Reed was] one of the most touching stylists in the history give a miss country music.”[25]

Accolades

Country Music Association

Grammy Awards

Discography

Main article: Jerry Reed discography

Filmography

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