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We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Throughout the year they provided tracks on the Propaganda compilation "Russia Bombs Finland" and "Hardcore 83". This is a song that's very popular among fingerpickers and for good reason. Elvis recorded it for the RCA label, on September 10, 1967, and was released on October 23, 1967.Thirteen years later, “Guitar Man” was re-recorded in a new electric arrangement, with Presley’s original voice intact, and was the last of his eleven country number one hits. The guitar has a ‘claw’ inlay on the bridge and was called “Pookie” by Jerry. Reed wrote The Claw 1967 and it appears on his debut album 'The Unbelievable Guitar & Voice of Jerry Reed'.
The Gretsch was introduced in 1955 and had a hollow body with open sound holes, two DeArmond pickups, a Bigsby vibrato and a kitschy western design motif with engraved block-fret markers, an inlaid bull head on the head of the guitar and a G-brand in the orange top.Atkins said Duane Eddy was the only player who seemed to have a good sound with this early version of the 6120, but Jerry was obviously very fond of the guitar.This guitar was specially made for Jerry when he regularly performed at the “Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour Television Show” in 1970.Furthermore, the guitar has a special pickguard in which the lyrics “Jerry Reed” and “Ovation” are inserted.Fun fact; Glen Campbell had the same signature guitar, this was the Ovation Thunderhead X-008.Jerry has played regularly on a Peavey T-60 over the years. The photos below are photos of Jerry’s guitar. Jerry was accompanied in the session by: Fred Carter, Jr. (guitar), Wayne Moss (guitar), Junior Huskey (bass), Jerry Carrigan (drums), Jerry Smith (harpsichord). Male”, “A Thing Called Love”, “Alabama Wild Man”, “Amos Moses”, “When You're Hot, You're Hot” (which garnered a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male), “Ko-Ko Joe”, “Lord, Mr. Ford”, “East Bound and Down” (the theme song for the 1977 blockbuster Smokey and the Bandit, in which Reed co-starred), “The Bird”, and “She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)”.Reed was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum. In the same recording session, two other songs were recorded: “The claw (intrumental)” and “If it comes to that”. Jerry Reed (1937–2008), known by many as Burt Reynolds’ truck-driving partner in crime in the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit, was also a highly accomplished and influential guitar picker—influencing the likes of Eric Johnson, Brent Mason, John Jorgensen, Tommy Emmanuel, Steve Morse and countless others—revered for his mind-boggling “guitar dueling” records with Chet Atkins, …
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Reed's grandparents lived in Rockmart and he would visit them from time to time. The record also peaked at number twenty-eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and was his latest top 40 pop hit in the United States. The strongest elements of Reed’s style came out of American blues, gospel, and country music. It’s a shame they’re not making it now.”Jerry’s first good guitar was the Gretsch Chet Atkins signature model 6120 that he played when he first met Chet. Jerry Reed Hubbard (March 20, 1937 – September 1, 2008) was an American country music singer, guitarist, composer, and songwriter, as well as an actor who appeared in more than a dozen films.
Priscilla Mitchell was a member of the folk group the Appalachians (“Bony Moronie”, 1963), and was co-credited with Roy Drusky on the 1965 Country No. They changed their name to Riistetyt and released the Laki ja Järjestys in 1982.
Here are a dozen songs transcribed in notes & tab, plus an in-depth analysis of Jerry's style and approach to the guitar.