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Jerry Reed 1956
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Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:53 amby Vidar Lund
Re: Jerry Reed 1956
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Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:25 amby Tony Enamel
Great!
Is it really Jerry singing?
Sounds like less cigarettes ...
Re: Jerry Reed 1956
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Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:17 pmby RonBloor
There seem to be a bunch of Jerry's early Capital singles out there on U tube. He was was definitely into that Rockabilly sound
but I guess you gotta do what you gotta do. I wonder if he really like doing those or he was just trying to make a living... Probably some of both.
Re: Jerry Reed 1956
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Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:48 pmby RandeDager
Ron, the story I've always heard is that even though Chet brought Jerry to Nashville based upon his tape of songs like "Down Home", etc., that once Jerry arrived in town he started performing what he thought everyone expected to hear. It didn't go so well for him and Chet finally told him to "be himself" and record in the style that got Chet interested in Jerry in the first place. Once he did that, the rest is history.
Re: Jerry Reed 1956
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Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:52 pmby RandeDager
Jack, didn't you mean "Smokey and the Bandit" for Jerry? I'll agree that the similarity is that "Cannonball Run" did at least star Burt Reynolds.
Re: Jerry Reed 1956
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Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:00 amby Jussi Huhtakangas
Jerry was signed to Capitol in the mid 50's when no one, not even himself considered him a "guitar player" ( like Chet was or how he would be known some decade later ) He was signed a s a c&w singer but unfortunately, and despite of the quality of the recordings, the records went nowhere. The musicians were the cream of the crop, Grady Martin and Bob Moore and other Nashville top guys. Today those early Capitol sides are considered as some of the best classic rockabilly recordings of the era and all of them have been reissued on cd by German Bear Family label.