Jerry Reed
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Jerry Reed Great Song Writer

Jerry Reed Great Singer

Jerry Reed The Movie Star

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Jerry Reed was one of My Greatest Influences in Guitar.

To me there is no one who is as Creative On Guitar As Jerry Reed.

His Guitar Licks can never be completely Duplicated By Anyone.

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I read where Chet Atkins wrote that he practiced 8 hours a day, every day of his life, in addition to his professional playing. And Chet said that he would never let a day go by unless he put in his 8 hours of practice.

If Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins Needed so much practice, how much practice does the average Guitar Player need to be good?

After reading how much time Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins put in practicing the Guitar I thought I might need 14 hours a day. So for three years I practiced 14 hours a day. I was pleasantly surprised to find out what 14 hours of practice a day would do for my Guitar Playing.

Jerry Reed is Recognized as one of the Great Nylon String Guitar Players

Jerry Reed is one of the most imitated Nylon String Guitar Players alive today

The Great Playing of Jerry Reed Introduced Nylon String Guitar to Country Music and to some degree to all Pop Music

In Jerry Reed's Earlier Days He Played a Baldwin Electric Classical Guitar

Jerry Reed Now Plays Hand Made Classical Guitars

The Music Art Comes from the Guitar Player

The Guitar Merely produces the sound

Therefore Jerry Reed Sounded Incredibly good on the Factory Made Baldwin Electric Classical Guitar when he played it in the 60s

When buying a Hand Made Classical Guitar you might keep in mind that the sound, the tonal quality of   Sounding Guitar can be inspirational to a player. And of Course a Hand Made Guitar is sometimes a Great Work of Musical Instruments Art. Some buyers of Hand Made Guitars consider the Guitar they are buying as a Piece of High Fine Art.

Needless to say, Jerry Reed is one of My Greatest Guitar Heroes

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Jerry Reed was another of those child Prodigies who came to Nashville at a very early age, and has spent his entire life in music. I think Jerry was 18 when he moved to Nashville in 1955. Many Great Studio Guitarists were child prodigies. I think that to earn a good living playing Guitar, all your life, takes someone with the talent that a Child Prodigy has.

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Jerry Reed said in an interview that he made recordings right away, when he moved to Nashville, but his early Records did not sell. Then Chet Atkins, Guitarist and Producer signed him with RCA Records out of Nashville, spotlighted Jerry Reed's original Style, and Jerry Started selling records big time by 1968. As far as stardom goes, Jerry Paid his Dues for 13 years before he made it. As far as making money as a Guitar player in Nashville, Jerry was making big time money as a studio Guitarists long before he made it as a Singing Star. However, Jerry Paid his dues as a Studio Guitarists also. No one comes to Nashville and Makes it big time right away, absolutely no one, no matter how talented they might be.

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Jerry Reed Played Guitar on the Recording Sessions that Produced this CD by Movie Star Robert Mitchum.  Robert Mitchum was actually a very good singer and had a couple of hits that were went high on the Country Charts. I saw Robert Mitchum on the Tonight show and he sang a couple of the song on this CD. I heard the Robert Mitchum songs on Radio when they were at the top of the Charts.  Robert Mitchum Said a Nashville Promoter wanted to book a roar tour for Robert Mitchum. Then Robert Mitchum said that he was not really a singer and did not want to pursue career on the road.  Most likely if Robert Mitchum would have gone on the Road he would have played to huge audiences which were his Movie Fans.

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It's incredible that singer try very hard to get hits, and all Robert Mitchum had to do was record a few songs and they became hits. And Jerry Reed Played Back up Guitar on the Robert Mitchum CDs.

Jerry Reed became really famous when he was in the Burt Reynolds Movies, "Smoky And the Bandit." Jerry's Guitar Work, and Singing, was featured in many of the songs on the Sound Track of That Popular Series of Movies. As usual, Jerry's Performance was great, both on Guitar, and in the Vocals he performed in "Smoky And The Bandit."

Jerry Reed was most likely already a millionaire from the sales of his Recordings before the movie "Smoky And The Bandit" was made. However, I'm sure that the earnings from the movie made Jerry Reed in to a Multi Millionaire.

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Jerry Reed invested his money in the largest and most professional Video Studio in Nashville. His Video Studio was not purchased from someone else, he had it designed and built to be the best, the most complete Video Facility in Nashville. Many TV Commercials are made in Nashville. His Video Studio is very much in demand for every kind of Video Production.

The creativity of Jerry Reed Seems to Know No Bounds. Jerry Reed and Chet made two full albums together. Jerry Reed is one of Chet Atkins' Guitar Heroes.

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Jerry Reed is listed as an Electric Guitar Player on this Boxed Set that is sold by Bear Family. I would tend to think that Jerry Reed and Waylon Jennings were good friends, since both were accomplished Guitar Player and Singers and they were popular about the same time.

Jerry Reed paid his dues in Nashville before he got any hit records. I heard him say in an interview that times were tough for him when he first came to Nashville. Jerry said he had to put his wife to work singing in order to make ends meet. Jerry's Wife, who's stage name is Pricilla Mitchell, has had some hit vocal recordings. I think she also did some backup vocal work on recordings.
 

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Jerry Reed is one of the All Time Great Guitar Players. His hit recordings were vocals, with him playing his own backup, and doing solo Guitar breaks in his songs. I think that Jerry had one or two Instrumentals on his first LP around 1967 or 1968.

Though Jerry Reed is a very good singer, in my opinion his Guitar playing overshadows his singing, by far. And Jerry Reed is remembered more by the Guitar Players of the world than he is for his singing. Guitar Players recognize Greatness, and Jerry Reed most assuredly has greatness when it comes to his Guitar Playing.

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Jerry Reed Pretty Much made his living in Nashville backing up singers on Records, TV, and in personal appearances until his first RCA Record was released. How many studio sessions he played I don't know. I do know that his Guitar work for studio sessions was much in demand.

Jerry Reed wrote and recorded a song called "Guitar Man." Elvis also Recorded that song with Jerry Reed doing the Guitar Backup work on a Gut String Guitar. At the time Jerry was a bright Shinning Star with his Nylon String Guitar Licks. Jerry Played Gut String Guitar Like you have never heard before, or after.

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I saw Jerry Reed in person, in 1968. He was on tour with Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer, and Boots Randolph. Jerry came on Stage with a Fender Telecaster, with the fret board showing great wear. No doubt the Fender Telecaster had been Jerry Reed's Axe for the Recording sessions, and most backup work for the other singers.

I bought a Capitol Recording of Jerry Reed, recorded a few years before Chet Atkins produced Jerry Reed's Music. It was not all that impressive. I think Chet was right when he told Jerry Reed that the other producers had been recording the great original singer/songwriter and guitarist all wrong. The other Producers had tried to make Jerry Reed fit into the mold of the then present day recordings, instead of letting Jerry Reed's Original Style of Guitar and Singing, Shine. The Producer can make or break any talented artist. If the Producer does not catch the true artistry of a singer, or Guitar player, then the recording will be no good, or it will be just another recording that is not all that much to listen to.

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After I first saw and heard Jerry Reed on a Syndicated TV show out of Nashville and learned that Chet had recorded some of the Guitar Instrumentals Jerry Reed had written, I checked my Chet Atkins LPs and found 15 songs that Jerry Reed had written.

Jerry Reed is one of the most creative Guitar Players to ever have lived. No one can really copy his Guitar Licks, no one.

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No doubt the Creativity of Jerry Reed showed up on the recording sessions he played on. I read in an interview where Jerry Reed Said he could only play what he played. He in effect said that he was completely spontaneous in his Guitar playing. Jerry Reed said he got all the Studio Session Jobs because the producers liked what he played, not because he could deliver a certain sound the producer wanted. In the interview, Jerry Reed showed admiration for Guitar players who could deliver any type of Guitar playing that a Record Producer might want.

Jerry Reed wrote most of the Vocals he sang on his recordings. As with many guitarists, Jerry Reed is excellent at writing novelty songs. He Recorded many of the Novelty songs that he had written throughout his music career. And the novelty songs went over with the Record buying public very well, with Jerry Selling Records in the Millions.

Both Jerry Reed and his wife Pricilla are listed as Sessions Players on the Bear Family Boxed Set of Jerry Lee Lewis.  Jerry Kennedy from Mercury Records is listed as the Leader and Producer. Most likely these Jerry Lee Lewis Recordings were made when Jerry Lee Lewis was under contract to Mercury Records.  Bear Family only released recordings of Stars who have a proven track record and who have remained popular over the years. Bear Family probably licenses the Recordings from the Original Recordings. 

I might mention that Bear Family has a tremendous track record in selecting the right recordings to release in boxed sets.

Jerry Reed took the route that many great guitarists take who work Nashville. He made his mark selling vocal recordings. It is tough for an instrumentalist, a Guitar instrumentalist, to get records that sell in millions out of Nashville, or any other recording center. Guitarists know that if they are to sell records in the Millions, and achieve great popularity, they are going to have to do it primarily as a vocalist, not as a Guitar instrumentalist.

Roy Clark, a great Guitarists, took the Vocalists Route, as did Guitarists Billy Grammar, and Merle Travis. Chet Atkins tried to take the Vocalist route in music. In 1946 Chet Atkins Recorded some vocals, but they never sold, so Chet Concentrated his Playing and Recording efforts on his Great Guitar Playing.

Though many Great Guitarists have taken the Vocalist Route, they are always remembered most for their Guitar Playing, when all is said and done. At this time when Jerry Reed no longer has vocal recordings on the charts, he is reverenced greatly for his Guitar playing, not his singing; though his singing is still loved.

Everyone would like to be a Star, to be rich and Famous. So it's easy to see why so many great Guitar players take the route of vocalist, even when their Guitar playing is much more artistic than their singing. Most likely if Jerry Reed had not been recorded by Chet Atkins as a vocalist, we would not even know that Jerry Reed is alive. He most likely would have lived his music life in obscurity, having never been known to the general public. This would have been sad indeed.

I can't say I can recognize the Jerry Reed Guitar Licks on other people's recordings. No doubt he was playing his Fender Telecaster on most of the backup work he did. And his Guitar work fit right in and made the singer sound good, without making Jerry Reed into a Guitar Playing Star. The backup guitarists who work a lot doesn't try to make himself sound like a star, they try to make the singer sound like a star. Any backup guitarist who tried to be a star on recordings would get hired once, and that would be it.
 
 

If you are a collector and want the Original Jerry Reed LPs, you have to search them out in the Oldies and Collectible Shops. An Oldies and Collectible Shop that may very well have some of the Original Jerry Reed LPs is "The Record Exchange" in St. Louis Missouri. Jean Haffner, who owns and operates "The Record Exchange" in St. Louis, has the largest Collection of Oldies And Collectible Records that I have ever seen. "The Record Exchange" in St. Louis Missouri does not have a Web Page. You will have to use some other means to get in touch with Jean Haffner at his "Record Exchange." There are many Oldies and Collectible Record Shops Throughout the United States that are Named "The Record Exchange," so you have to get the "Record Exchange" out of St. Louis Missouri to inquire with Jean Haffner as to whether he has any of Jerry Reed's

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Listening to Jerry Reed on Saturday Night

On Saturday Night I was listening to Jerry Reed and watching some old movies. Naturally I listened to "East Bound And Down" from "Smoky And The Bandit," one of my favorite Jerry Reed Songs. And I listened to one of Jerry's first RCA Recordings, "Guitar Man," and, "The Claw." What great songs they are. Then I pulled up my mp3 file of Jerry Singing Picking and Singing, "Alabama Jubilee." What a treat it was to listen to these Jerry Reed songs again. They brought back many memories.

Have you ever thought about who you would like to have been if you were not you? I think I would like to have been Jerry Reed, if I wasn't me. He is one of my most admired people in this world.

On Alabama Jubilee Jerry does some chord lead work that is out of this world. Well he does that on most all of his recordings. But on some of Jerry's recordings, he does some neat single string leads that are out of site. His speed and his Guitar passages are just unsurpassed.

When Jerry Reed was born, an original that cannot be duplicated came into this world. The Guitar Players in the Newsgroup and on the Guitarsite.com all say they cannot duplicate the Guitar picking of Jerry Reed. No one can duplicate the Guitar licks of Jerry Reed, no one. He is an original that can never be fully copied. And in reality no one can even come close to copying the Guitar playing of Jerry Reed.

Jerry Reed said in an interview with Guitar Player Magazine that when he did the studio backup work in Nashville, he was just lucky that they liked what he played on Guitar for it was the only way he could play. Jerry said that some studio Guitar men could give a producer whatever style they wanted. He said I can't do that and I was so lucky they liked what I played on backup. Well if anyone didn't like the Guitar work of Jerry Reed they would have to be out of their head.

Jerry made his living in Nashville for many years playing studio backup work. Then he made it as a singer. Of course everyone knows that Jerry is a great song writers both of songs with words and in writing Guitar instrumentals. Chet Atkins had recorded many Jerry Reed Guitar instrumentals before he Produced Jerry's first Vocal Recordings. And Jerry Reed Toured with Chet Atkins, Boots Randolph and Piano Man Floyd Cramer back around the time his first RCA Vocal Recordings were become very popular. It was touring instrumentalists, a show put together by Mr. Chet Atkins, one of Jerry Reed's greatest admirers.

Jerry is not only a great singer and guitarists, he is quite a comedian. Back in the late 60s of early 70 Jerry was a regular on the Glen Campbell TV Show on Sunday Night, then Jerry was the Replacement for Glen Campbell in the summer line up.

Many of Jerry's songs are comedy. The man has a wonderful sense of humor.

Jerry is one of the most respected and loved Guitar Players and singers that exists today. If you haven't listened to a good Jerry Reed Song lately then get out those records, tapes or CDs.

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Acoustic and Electric Guitar Player

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I own two Resonator Guitars which I call Dobros

I own a newer Regal Dobro Purchased in 1994

I  own a Vintage 30s Regal Dobro Which has great Sound that I love so much.

My 30s Regal has bark and bite. It yells very loud.

The 30s Regal can also be very soft and sweet when you want that sound

My Newer Asian Regal Dobro has a very sweet Sound, but it lacks the Body  and volume, the bark and the bite  of the Vintage 1930s Regal Dobro.

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Guitar, Mandolin, Lap Steel, Dobro

Ovation Folklore Steel String Guitar

This was my only Guitar after I went back to a Day Job

My Ovation was made in 1975 and did not come with Electronics

I had an LR Baggs LB6 Piezo Pickup installed

The Baggs LB6 Sounds Great

My Ovation Folklore has much volume and the sound is full bodied and sweet

I used the Ovation Exclusively in my first recordings on the Computer in 1999.

I still use the Ovation a quite a lot in my Recordings for the sound is full full and rich

The Ovation Folklore has a wider neck more like a Classical Guitar

This makes the Ovation Folklore Perfect for Finger Picking