Wednesday - September 03, 2008
JERRY REED HAS PASSED AWAY. A GREAT MUSICIAN AND ACTOR AND GOOD GUY. RIP
Yesterday I received some news that someone in the music industry had died. He was one heck of a super picker, as musicians are referred to in Nashville no matter what instrument they play. He was also a heck of a good actor. He was Jerry Reed. Long before I ever met the man, I was playing his records when I was a DJ. I also MC’d one of his shows a time or two and got to know him that way.
Once we moved to the Nashville area I’d visit his office on Music Row on the odd occasion. He was two months older then I am. He was born in March of ’37, I was born in May of same yr.
What a loss it is. Truly. Jerry was a picker’s picker. And he was a very funny man as well and did lots of novelty songs. He stared with Burt Reynolds in the Smokey movies and sang the theme. He was also in The Survivors with Robin Williams and Walter Matthau. I thought he stole the movie.
A memory I will always carry was a private concert with only the two of us. OK, it wasn’t actually a concert and it wasn’t planned.
Between shows he went to his dressing room just off the stage area where he’d finished a show in open air. Hot KY. summer and no cover on the stage.
Everyone who ever played there complained about that, and Loretta Lynn once almost fainted. So anyway, Jerry Reed went to the dressing room and I followed about 15 minutes later thinking I may as well get an interview for our station while I was there. I’d MC’d his show and saw no problem.
But I never got to ask. When I knocked and walked in he was practising and doing runs and I simply stood there like a deer caught in headlights.
Honest. I was memorized. I was awed by this guy and never asked for an interview and didn’t even think about it. There was more then an hour between shows, in fact I think now it was a couple of hours. But anyway, there were just the two of us and he played and played and I wouldn’t have been able to think of questions anyway. I’ve always been in awe of talent which made me the very worst person to try and do an interview anyway. So I stood there and listened to a great guitar master and entertainer.
Sad .... RIP Jerry. Til now I hardly appreciated how damn lucky I was to be there.
Posted by Drew458
on 09/03/2008 at 05:47 AM
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