In 2008, Jerry Reed, a country music legend who rose from nothing to become one of the most prolific and famed guitar legends ...

Depending on your age and preferred era of country music, you might think of Jerry Reed as the Snowman from the Smokey and the Bandit films, the most random Scooby-Doo special guest or the ...

In 1972, Jerry Reed was on top of the world musically. Hit records like “When You’re Hot, You’re Hot” and his often-imitated style of guitar playing were making him a household name across ...

The lyrics to “Guitar Man” really mirror the professional journey of Jerry Reed. It was his first song that reached the country charts and put the young singer on the map. Reed was discovered ...

Jerry Reed, 71, a Grammy Award-winning country guitarist, singer and songwriter who played a mischievous, good old boy sidekick to Burt Reynolds in "Smokey and the Bandit" and other movies ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jerry Reed, a singer who became a good ol' boy actor in car-chase movies such as "Smokey and the Bandit," has died of complications from emphysema at 71. His longtime booking ...

Jerry Reed and Don Schlitz. Ask yourself, though. How many women were entrenched in country music's old boy's club to have achieved that acclaim without Country Music Hall of Fame-level renown in ...

Jerry Reed — songwriter for the likes of Elvis Presley, singer and busy actor in the ’70s and ’80s — died Monday at the age of 71. Best known to movie fans as the truck-driving ...