Jerry Reed went to the same high school in Atlanta that my girlfriend did, O'Keefe.
I thought he was just a regular country musician and some time actor. But they had some stories on him recently on Sirius, he was known as an outstanding guitar player.
Elvis was recording a song and couldn't get his musicians to play the guitar the way he wanted, he called up Jerry Reed and had him come to Memphis to do the guitar work.
I liked him in Smokey and the Bandit, kind of a dumb ass movie but I like it. Especially now since I am an 18 wheeler driver.
That film was made in the late seventies, the hey day of truck driving. Back then we were called "Knights of the Road" and they made big Hollywood movies about us. Burt Reynolds was a big star. Also Kris Kristofferson and Ali McGraw made a film about truck driving, "Convoy," in that same year. The glory days of the CB radio.
Hollywood is not making any movies about us any more if we do appear in a film we are portrayed as redneck goofballs.
