Jerry Reed- Dixie Dreams

117270668This was one dollar.  I got it because I always kind of liked Jerry Reed but I also liked the song that I posted. Jerry-Reed

I would say my first exposure to Jerry Reed was on Scooby Doo where he had a guest spot and sang a song for the show.

Jerry Reed, born in Atlanta, Georiga in 1937 started singing and writing music as a child.  He started life a session guitarist and a songwriter.  His first big shot at exposure occurred when Gene Vincent covered his song “Crazy Legs” in 1958.  Eventually he landed hits on his own and became a satr in the late 60’s/ early 70’s.  However, in the mid-seventies, his singing career took a backseat to acting, most notably in a series of movies with Burt Reynolds as well as much later in Adam Sandler’s “The Waterboy”.  Reed would die of complications from emphysema in 2008.468c50fd7c6376d3902e3531faadf9a8

CMT Bio

Rockabilly Hall of Fame info on Reed

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This album was released in 1981 but failed to make many waves on the country charts.It would produce two singles; “The Testimony of Soddy Hoe” and “Good Friends Make Good Lovers”.282a74e59b03d9e183dc3a05e5960c01

For a sample, I went with Reed’s cover of The Charlie Daniels Band’s classic “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”.  In Reed’s version, the devil and the protagonist duel with guitars rather than fiddles.  I am assuming that this is Reed on guitar as he was quite a proficient guitarist.Jerry_reed_waterboy

Although this is a popular song and a favorite of mine, got to go with meh for the album as Reed has done better.

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