Texarkana born and raised. Texas side of town is dry. He would have been at distributor on Arkansas side. The sheriff should have been Arkansas or Louisiana. They would never have been in Texas.
Yeah it was from the early eighties but it was a 70s Bass movie running bootleg beer the first one was the best the second one was okay and the third one was horrible@@TheJestercraft
There's a great Elvis story concerning Jerry. Jerry wrote and released a song called "Guitar Man". Elvis heard it and liked it so much he decided to "cover" it. So he gets in the studio in Nashville and proceeds to record "Guitar Man". Big problem. None of the professional studio guitarists could figure out how to play it, Finally someone said "Find Jerry, get him in here". How do you find Jerry Reed? Chet Atkins would know, so they called Chet and he told them Jerry was down on the Cumberland River fishing. 'Get him"! So they got him, told him the problem, and got him into the studio. So Jerry played the guitar for Elvis. Then came the fun part. The way Colonel Parker had things arranged, whenever Elvis recorded someone else's song, that person had to sign away his rights to it. Jerry said "Hell No"! That's my song." Parker wouldn't budge until Elvis intervened and told him to let Jerry have his way. Only time anyone ever stood up to Parker and won.
The same thing happened with Dolly Parton, Elvis loved her song I will always love you And when they got to the studio colonel parker said the same thing to her and she said no as well Late and later, when Whitney Houston covered that song she's Jokingly said I could have bought Graceland with the profits.
Jerry Reed was as down to earth as they come. He frequently came to the local waterways near me..floating, picking, and drinking. He was well known to buy beer and share it with anyone around, and invite them to join him on his houseboat. One of the friendliest guys ever, and hearts broke when he passed away.
You don’t get that good without taking it seriously. Just because Reed had a comedic presentation on stage didn’t mean he wasn’t serious about his playing.
@@projoebiochem I'm not going to disagree with Chet Atkins, but if Jerry Reed had spent less time on non-musical endeavors, he might have been a better guitarist. And we'd have inferior movies.
@@mikerickson01 He was well into his music career before he started to make movies. He was a good songwriter, but his serious guitar playing didn’t pay the bills. He learned that he made more money with the comic banter on stage. In that he was a little like Roy Clark, but without the instrument versatility. I think Jerry’s Breakdown is one of his best guitar instrumentals and the autobiographical Guitar Man is his best combination of lyrics and musicianship. There are some videos of him on the old Porter Wagoner show that show him playing a great guitar medley.
Many good songs he did, but I would consider this person should check out "The Bird" or "Amos Moses" probably before "She Got the Goldmine, I Got the Shaft" as those cover the comedy and range a bit more IIRC
This is from the movie “Smokey and The Bandit. Jerry played the role of Cletus, friend and co-lawbreaker to Burt Reynolds (Smokey).Jerry was a fantastic guitarist and a very good actor and an all around funny guy!
Burt Reynolds was The Bandit. Smokey was a slang for state trooper because most state troopers wore a hat similar to the park ranger hat worn by Smokey the Bear.
The director of the film asked Jerry on set if he thought he could maybe write a song for the movie as a sort of theme. Jerry asked if he could see the whole script to see how the story went, and the director complied. After shooting the day's scenes, Jerry went back to his hotel. He came back the next morning with this song to show the director.
Jerry Reed was a charismatic performer who had a great sense of humor. Popular songs Amos Moses, She got the mine I got the shaft . He was fun to watch
Jerry Reed always considered himself more of a guitar thinker rather than a guitar player. He was very innovative on guitar, doing things with the instrument that hadn't been done before... much like Lenny Breau. He also didn't think very highly of his own song writing or singing voice, calling himself the original 'junk throat". He constantly sold himself short. He was far more innovative and brilliant on the guitar than he gave himself credit for. I believe his genuine humility made him even more endearing to his fans. He was a great talent. There's no question about that.
Jerry Reed wrote the song guitar man that Elvis recorded. In 67 Elvis decided he wanted to record it. He had several players in the cession, but could not get it to sound like he wanted it, so they tried to get Jerry to come in and play. He was out fishing, and finally they found him, and he came in wearing his fishing clothes, every one else was dressed up. He started playing , Jerry and Elvis kind liked each other right off. When they got done with that song and one or two more of Jerry's songs. He started to leave. Elvis' manager told Jerry to sign over half of the publishing rites, which was what he did with everyone, Jerry refused, and sai you can tell Elvis he won't be able to release it if you want to, and left. Needless to say Jerry kept his publishing, and was the only one to get over on Tom Parker.
In 1978 a year after this song came out, our little town in eastern Kentucky had a thing called the "Sorghum Festival" of which Jerry Reed was the grand marshal of the parade and done a concert also. As he was parading down the street I was standing towards the end of the parade about three feet from the street wearing a floppy hat exactly like the one Jerry Reed used to wear. As he passed by me he pointed right at me smiling and then pointed at his head and my head recognizing the hat and gave me like a thumbs up. That was 46 years ago but I will NEVER forget it. For a man of his stature to point me out and recognize me in a crowd was very special, at least to me it was. By the way the concert was awesome also. I was standing about five feet from the stage and again he recognized my hat, an AWESOME day. I heard stories that since Jerry was coming to eastern Kentucky he wanted to sample some of our "Kentucky Kool-Aid" (Moonshine) which he did and they said after partaking of the "Kool-Aid" he barely knew what planet he was on, I guess it had a little more of a kick than he was used to. For Jerry Reed to come to our little out of the way town was a big deal, but it also helped that his drummer was from our little town, that might have had something or probably everything to do with it.
I served in the US Navy 81-85. My ship was ordered to Beruit Lebanon in 1983. We were there 9.5 months. When we finally were ordered home to Long Beach California, my Captain ordered that we play "West Bound and Down" on the PA as we turned West and headed home!!❤😢
I was there in '83 on DDG-17 Conyngham. 12 of us were transferring or getting out so we were in town for most of a day. We were there hanging out with the marines a week before they were bombed and killed. Was hard to think about for a long time.
Never heard of Jerry Reed…man….that just breaks my heart…I weep for the newer generations !!!! Now listen to more Jerry….it will enrich your life !!!!!🔥🎸🎶🔥😆
Interesting tidbit about Jerry Reed. He came up with the guitar lick that Glen Campbell used in his version of Southern Nights, which was Glen's first number one single. If you search on Jerry Reed and Glen Campbell, there's an old clip of Southern Nights that they perform together and Glen gives Jerry credit for the lick.
If you want to see some really intricate stringed instrument playing, look into Bluegrass music. There's a video out there of a live performance by Ricky Scaggs and his band, and nearly every member of the band does a solo. Guitar, pedal steel guitar, mandolin and banjo if I recall correctly. In the southern Appalachian mountains, prior to 1980, there wasn't much to do for fun except compete with your friends to see who could pick banjo the fastest 😁.
Earl Scruggs and Friends. ua-cam.com/video/yQIJuu3N5EY/v-deo.htmlsi=p3ImHEt6rklMq7at Too many talented artists to count. This is a remake of the original that Earl Scruggs had done in 1949.
These guys are right about the term east bound and down. I don't know about your country but in the USA when I grew up in the 70's and 80's we had what we called CB radio. CB stood for citizen band radio and we used lingo to tell others what we are doing or what is going on around us. For if we saw the police and wanted to tell others the police location. We would say "I saw smokey or smokey bear at McDonalds at whatever location they were at"
Jerry was also a famous studio guitar musician, a contemporary of Glenn Campbell & Roy Clark, but in Nashville, TN. He also got into acting and was cast for the Smokey & The Bandit movie and asked to write some songs for the movie which is this song.
Good ol' boys at heart, both Elvis and Jerry knew deep down something that the Colonel could never understand. ...art is personal, music ESPECIALLY! God bless 'em, the Colonel too 🙏🏽 Y'all R.I.P. 🎸🎸🎸
Another great songwriter, Kris Kristofferson who, like Jerry Reed, spent a lot of time as an actor rather than doing their music. This is what I consider his best song .... ua-cam.com/video/HCgnbRWVvU8/v-deo.html Kris recently went to meet his maker. He was a real interesting person and I can't possibly do his biography justice here, so, please look him up. And, then react to the song I've linked.
In the US in the late 70s/early 80s, country music had a huge moment and many of the songs crossed over to the popular music charts - Pop Goes the Country was a TV variety show around that theme. Love Jerry Reed!
I think I’ve seen Smokey and the bandit about 10 times. Haven’t seen it in years. It was cheesy, but it was also hilarious and just a good old time. It wasn’t meant to be an Academy award winner. And that’s what was so great about it.
East bound and down was the theme song to a great southern movie called Smokey and the Bandit. Jerry reed was an amazing guitarist and singer. And a great actor. Check out his song Amos Moses
Jerry Reed was easily one of the most underrated country stars of his time. Make no mistake, he was definitely well-recognized; but he deserved so much more than what he received. RIP Snowman.
Pop Goes the Country was one of the best TV shows in the country in the 70s and featured every star of the era in live performances. It was hosted by Ralph Emery.
I was 18 in 1973 and the lead singer/Rythym guitar in a honky tonk band in Ft. Worth Texas for 20 years. So yes this was on my set list! enjoy you're channel.
3 of my favorite videos that I visit often: Jerry Reed & Glen Campbell performing (1) this song, (2) "Guitar Man," & "Southern Nights." I also like "Wayfaring Stranger" by these two.
I just heard someone do a reaction to Jerry Reeds record version of Wayfaring Stranger and was blown away. I never knew Jerry could sing like that, very deep voice & the music was awesome. I love Glen too so I'll be looking for that, thank you. ❤😊
I can’t believe we live in a world that someone has not heard this song nor know what it’s from. I’m glad that you listen to it and I’m sure by now you know where it’s from and you’ve probably watched the movie. This was only the number two movie in 1977 second only the Star Wars.
The song is from Smokey and the Bandit. He was in the movie and drove a big rig. He reeks with coolness. A great personality. I always loved Jerry Reed.
Listen up younguns. These two "Kids" were cutting records and their own radio program in 1954. By 1955 they regular performing stars on a California TV show known Ranch Party. They wrote this song called Hoy Hoy
Although not from this era…2 of Country’s greatest guitarist & must see footage: Keith Urban - Shelby County Jail - live Vince Gill - Oklahoma Boarder Line - live
The song is from Smokey and the Bandit. But the title: "East Bound and Down" refers to the objective of the movie. They were illegally transporting a semi-truck full of Coors beer from Colorado to Florida. The route was east bound frim Colorado and down towards Florida. Look at a map of the US, and that will make sense. In those days, Coors beer could not be sold East of the Mississippi River.
Actually Smokey picked up the Coors beer,that was not illegal,but not sold east of the Mississippi River due to its cold brew process necessitated refrigerated transport that was not financially feasible past the river. Smokey (Jerry Reed) also picked up the load in Texarkana, like the song says, and headed east to Atlanta, like the song says. The illegal part was speeding down the road.
Amos Moses is my favorite Jerry Reed song. Another one of those country singer songwriter guitar players that people seem to forget is Eddie Rabbitt. He wrote Kentucky Rain for Elvis and he had a number of big hits like Driving My Life Away.
I went to a Jerry Reed concert many years ago and it was a fantastic show!! He didn't just play music, he and his band put on a show with all kind of humor embedded in it, that blew my mind,. Hey, get this, I'm a gigantic rock fan and it was awesome... Had everyone on their feet during the performance! Smokey and the Bandit made that song famous and that was their fanale.
I was lucky enough to see Jerry Reed live in Taylorville, Illinois in the late 1970s. He was an absolutely fun performer and truly liked the fans. He actually stopped mid song to let me take his photo.
Back in 1979, we were the first to get cable in our neighborhood, Smokey and the bandit was playing on Showtime. I loved it and watched it every single time they played it. I knew every single word. One night my older brother came in with a couple friends……..I sat in my mom’s chair not really watching but reciting every word of the movie. One of those guys watched me, and we ended up marrying the next year. That movie holds a special place for us.
If there is one guy I would have loved to live to 200, that would have been Jerry Reed! He's country, and he's not quite country, and he's always got so much happiness going in his recordings. My favorite early/late country album would be Jerry Reed's 'Red Hot Picker'. He was also a very good actor, so he did his stuff for the classic Smokey and the Bandit movies!
Eastbound and Down... From the movie Smokey and the Bandit.. They are driving East to get the Coors Beer back to Georgia in a certain amount of time.. Funny story.. my BF was a Nascar driver back in the 90's.. and I went down to Florida to watch her qualify.. we went to a restaurant later for supper and this song came on.. we started singing it... in harmony.. not even knowing that we both knew the song.. we had only become friends maybe 6 months before.. still friends 25 plus years later and this is our song.
Grady Martin played everything. Jazz, pop, country. He was a Nashville mainstay for years. The amazing acoustic guitar on Marty Robbin’s El Paso was Grady! He did the entire song in one take!
LESSON 1: Jerry Reed is perfectly dressed any time, even if he's not wearing shoes. "That's just Jerry" is the universal answer to many questions. He was basically a movie character without the movie, playing and joking and laughing his way through life until someone decided, "You know, we ought to put that guy in a movie."
Smokey and the Bandit was the movie with Jerry Reed as The Snowman, Jackie Gleason as Buford T. Justice, Sally Field as Frog and Burt Reynolds as The Bandit. Jerry Reed was a main character in the movie as well as singing this well-known song written for the movie.
Jerry Reed was a singer songwriter from the "golden age" of country, and quite possibly one of the greatest guitar players of all time, certainly of the 20th century. Definitely one of the fastest pickers. Eastbound and Down was from the 1977 Burt Reynolds classic Smokey and the Bandit (which btw, where I'm from down south is considered more of a documentary than a fiction film, lol). Jerry also starred in the movie with Burt (they were close friends), showing his versatility also as an actor. The story with this song is that Hal Needham, who directed the film, went to Jerry one day during filming and said he needed a "travel song" for the film and could Jerry put something together before they went to editing in a few months. Jerry went back to his trailer that night, and came back the next morning with this song, completely fleshed out and ready to record. He was a down to earth, good ol' country boy who was known for being rather unfazed by his enormous talent. He once said in an interview when asked about how he deals with being such a huge talent, "I just play guitar, and people like it. That's good enough for me."
I live in Phenix City,AL just 2 hours south west of Atlanta,GA this song was in the movie Smokey and the Bandit it was made around Atlanta area very funny movie Jerry Reed in this movie at Snowman the truck driver if you never seen the movie need to watch it the movie came out I believe in 1977 I'm now 53 and I'm a over the road truck driver I can relate to this song more now the Smokey and the Bandit 2 came out in 1980 very good East bound and Down means your going east on a highway and down part means going fast have foot down on the gas
It’s a trucker song it was written for the movie smoking the bandit. He was a country guy famous for his guitar work and picking Fast and he also starred in the movie. He was an actor as well. It’s a song about driving a truck and the theme of the movie, eastbound was a direct and he headed down your pedal was pushed down to the floor driving as fast as you could et cetera et cetera. Smoky bandit, it was worth it. lol
His daughter worked at the marina where I keep my boat in Nashville and he loved to fish so he was there often. He talk and acted no dii it different that he did when performing and was a nice guy.
From the movie Smokey and the bandit .. great song, East bound and down, CB chat , down is off the air basically. Great video, just found your channel 🤘
From the movie Smokey and the Bandit
Snowman and The Bandit drinking Coors in where ever they ended up.
Texarkana born and raised. Texas side of town is dry. He would have been at distributor on Arkansas side. The sheriff should have been Arkansas or Louisiana. They would never have been in Texas.
@@StLouisBear Hey!! Don't Tell Hollywood how things Actually work...Its Movie Magic...they don't care!! LoL!!
Not just from the movie, the lyrics are basically the entire plot of the movie!
Yeah it was from the early eighties but it was a 70s Bass movie running bootleg beer the first one was the best the second one was okay and the third one was horrible@@TheJestercraft
I’m convinced without this song The Bandit wouldn’t have been that good a movie.
Well, that and a couple other things. Jackie Gleason really killed it in that movie!
Jerry was the actual star of that movie😂
Totally!
Fred was the most important out of anything in the movies.
@@kennethloki7011"That's good with Fred."
There's a great Elvis story concerning Jerry. Jerry wrote and released a song called "Guitar Man". Elvis heard it and liked it so much he decided to "cover" it. So he gets in the studio in Nashville and proceeds to record "Guitar Man". Big problem. None of the professional studio guitarists could figure out how to play it, Finally someone said "Find Jerry, get him in here". How do you find Jerry Reed? Chet Atkins would know, so they called Chet and he told them Jerry was down on the Cumberland River fishing. 'Get him"! So they got him, told him the problem, and got him into the studio. So Jerry played the guitar for Elvis. Then came the fun part. The way Colonel Parker had things arranged, whenever Elvis recorded someone else's song, that person had to sign away his rights to it. Jerry said "Hell No"! That's my song." Parker wouldn't budge until Elvis intervened and told him to let Jerry have his way. Only time anyone ever stood up to Parker and won.
The same thing happened with Dolly Parton, Elvis loved her song I will always love you And when they got to the studio colonel parker said the same thing to her and she said no as well Late and later, when Whitney Houston covered that song she's Jokingly said I could have bought Graceland with the profits.
@@tj79jrfan Great stories. Don't mess with Ms. Parton
That's not exactly correct Dolly Parton had a song that Elvis Presley tried getting her to give him the rights to, she told him No!❤
@@tj79jrfanyes it's true!
Excellent job on that piece
Yes, folks, at one time Country Music didn't suck.
The era of the Trucking songs. There were some great ones.
My favorite Jerry Reed song is Amos Moses
Most definitely Amos Moses is the best Jerry Reed song if I was forced to pick one
Absolutely!
Mine, too!!! Love that song.
*HELL YEAH!!! AMOS MOSES!!!*
AMOS MOSES - SO FUNNY. Be sure to watch a LYRIC video.
Jerry Reed was as down to earth as they come. He frequently came to the local waterways near me..floating, picking, and drinking. He was well known to buy beer and share it with anyone around, and invite them to join him on his houseboat.
One of the friendliest guys ever, and hearts broke when he passed away.
Chet Atkins once said that Jerry Reed could be the best guitarist in the world, if he only took it seriously.
You don’t get that good without taking it seriously. Just because Reed had a comedic presentation on stage didn’t mean he wasn’t serious about his playing.
@@projoebiochem I'm not going to disagree with Chet Atkins, but if Jerry Reed had spent less time on non-musical endeavors, he might have been a better guitarist. And we'd have inferior movies.
@@mikerickson01 He was well into his music career before he started to make movies. He was a good songwriter, but his serious guitar playing didn’t pay the bills. He learned that he made more money with the comic banter on stage. In that he was a little like Roy Clark, but without the instrument versatility. I think Jerry’s Breakdown is one of his best guitar instrumentals and the autobiographical Guitar Man is his best combination of lyrics and musicianship. There are some videos of him on the old Porter Wagoner show that show him playing a great guitar medley.
@projoebiochem Jerry was about paying the bills.
And Reed was a better guitarist than Atkins, according to Atkins.
This is a fun song, but doesn't scratch the surface of how well he can play.
Like Amos Moses
The Claw.
"She Got the Goldmine I Got the Shaft" is another good one.
The duet with Dolly Parton is pretty good too.
The man with the golden thumb is another good one.
"When you're hot, you're hot" one of my favorites by Jerry Reed
Many good songs he did, but I would consider this person should check out "The Bird" or "Amos Moses" probably before "She Got the Goldmine, I Got the Shaft" as those cover the comedy and range a bit more IIRC
"When You're Hot, You're Hot" One of his best songs
Jerry reed is one of the most underrated guitar players. Everyone forgets how great he was as a guitarist.
You absolutely must see the amazing duet between Jerry and Chet Atkins, with the song "Jerry's Breakdown." The man was a fabulous guitar player.
"You can bu||sh¡+ a bu||sh¡++er but you can't snow the Snowman" -The Snowman Jerry Reed
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My favorite was, "Fred, you're looking thin in the skin." 😂 I use it stupid often.
Jerry was one of the best guitar players ever. He was incredibly talented and was also a great singer songwriter and actor as well.
This is from the movie “Smokey and The Bandit. Jerry played the role of Cletus, friend and co-lawbreaker to Burt Reynolds (Smokey).Jerry was a fantastic guitarist and a very good actor and an all around funny guy!
Burt Reynolds was The Bandit.
Smokey was a slang for state trooper because most state troopers wore a hat similar to the park ranger hat worn by Smokey the Bear.
@@edwardlongshanks827Jerry was Snowman ❤
Dont forget Fred.
The director of the film asked Jerry on set if he thought he could maybe write a song for the movie as a sort of theme. Jerry asked if he could see the whole script to see how the story went, and the director complied. After shooting the day's scenes, Jerry went back to his hotel. He came back the next morning with this song to show the director.
Smokey is any traffic cop.
Mostly state troopers had those hats but many sheriffs did too at the time.
Jerry Reed was a charismatic performer who had a great sense of humor. Popular songs Amos Moses, She got the mine I got the shaft . He was fun to watch
Jerry Reed multi talented. Guitar player, singer, songwriter, comedian and actor.
Jerry Reed always considered himself more of a guitar thinker rather than a guitar player. He was very innovative on guitar, doing things with the instrument that hadn't been done before... much like Lenny Breau. He also didn't think very highly of his own song writing or singing voice, calling himself the original 'junk throat". He constantly sold himself short. He was far more innovative and brilliant on the guitar than he gave himself credit for. I believe his genuine humility made him even more endearing to his fans. He was a great talent. There's no question about that.
Well said!
I think my favorite part of Jerry Reeds music is his sense of humor. You should check out “she got the goldmine” to see that side of him.
he got the shaft
@@daviddigital6887 Wait... that wasn't Darrell Waltrip that coined that?
Jerry Reed wrote the song guitar man that Elvis recorded. In 67 Elvis decided he wanted to record it. He had several players in the cession, but could not get it to sound like he wanted it, so they tried to get Jerry to come in and play. He was out fishing, and finally they found him, and he came in wearing his fishing clothes, every one else was dressed up. He started playing , Jerry and Elvis kind liked each other right off. When they got done with that song and one or two more of Jerry's songs. He started to leave. Elvis' manager told Jerry to sign over half of the publishing rites, which was what he did with everyone, Jerry refused, and sai you can tell Elvis he won't be able to release it if you want to, and left. Needless to say Jerry kept his publishing, and was the only one to get over on Tom Parker.
Elvis told Parker to let it go. He really wanted to record Guitar Man. Jerry was paid as a player plus his songwriting and publishing credit.
It's a TRUCKER song about men who drive BIG trucks from the movie smokey and the bandit with Burt Reynolds.
In 1978 a year after this song came out, our little town in eastern Kentucky had a thing called the "Sorghum Festival" of which Jerry Reed was the grand marshal of the parade and done a concert also. As he was parading down the street I was standing towards the end of the parade about three feet from the street wearing a floppy hat exactly like the one Jerry Reed used to wear. As he passed by me he pointed right at me smiling and then pointed at his head and my head recognizing the hat and gave me like a thumbs up. That was 46 years ago but I will NEVER forget it. For a man of his stature to point me out and recognize me in a crowd was very special, at least to me it was.
By the way the concert was awesome also. I was standing about five feet from the stage and again he recognized my hat, an AWESOME day. I heard stories that since Jerry was coming to eastern Kentucky he wanted to sample some of our "Kentucky Kool-Aid" (Moonshine) which he did and they said after partaking of the "Kool-Aid" he barely knew what planet he was on, I guess it had a little more of a kick than he was used to. For Jerry Reed to come to our little out of the way town was a big deal, but it also helped that his drummer was from our little town, that might have had something or probably everything to do with it.
Great story. He always seemed to me like such a great guy.
I served in the US Navy 81-85. My ship was ordered to Beruit Lebanon in 1983. We were there 9.5 months. When we finally were ordered home to Long Beach California, my Captain ordered that we play "West Bound and Down" on the PA as we turned West and headed home!!❤😢
Wow that was a long haul 😳. As an army veteran and Navy wife ..I bet that was an awesome feeling hearing that play. 🫡💙‼️
That it was, but being on a Battleship,, we made short work of it. Flank speed!!!!
@@RLBadKarma 🤣🫡‼️ right on BZ
Thank you for your service ❤
I was there in '83 on DDG-17 Conyngham. 12 of us were transferring or getting out so we were in town for most of a day. We were there hanging out with the marines a week before they were bombed and killed. Was hard to think about for a long time.
Never heard of Jerry Reed…man….that just breaks my heart…I weep for the newer generations !!!! Now listen to more Jerry….it will enrich your life !!!!!🔥🎸🎶🔥😆
Interesting tidbit about Jerry Reed. He came up with the guitar lick that Glen Campbell used in his version of Southern Nights, which was Glen's first number one single. If you search on Jerry Reed and Glen Campbell, there's an old clip of Southern Nights that they perform together and Glen gives Jerry credit for the lick.
One of my top 5 favorite songs ever.
If you wanna hear the other side of Jerry Reed, check out his song "This Thing Called Love". Beautiful.
Yesm. Also "Today is Mine".
Singer songwriter…Jim Stafford. Spiders and Snakes, My Girl Bill and Wildwood Weed.
He can play a mean guitar too...
He did a "Dixie" / "Yankee Doodle" mashup that was great.
@@LynnStAubin-od5qe Based on the statement at the end I was thinking of Stafford too.
Wild wood weed is hilarious
"I know this song". Of course you do. Everybody knows it. The ultimate driving song. 10-4 good buddy.
If you want to see some really intricate stringed instrument playing, look into Bluegrass music. There's a video out there of a live performance by Ricky Scaggs and his band, and nearly every member of the band does a solo. Guitar, pedal steel guitar, mandolin and banjo if I recall correctly.
In the southern Appalachian mountains, prior to 1980, there wasn't much to do for fun except compete with your friends to see who could pick banjo the fastest 😁.
Earl Scruggs and Friends.
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Too many talented artists to count. This is a remake of the original that Earl Scruggs had done in 1949.
You can not hear this song and sit still. Love this song.
The "down" in eastbound and down means that he has the accelerator pedal down to the floor.
Hammer down!
Yes but he was eastbound. Hauling a load from Texas to Hotlanta, GA. Pedal to the metal.
These guys are right about the term east bound and down. I don't know about your country but in the USA when I grew up in the 70's and 80's we had what we called CB radio. CB stood for citizen band radio and we used lingo to tell others what we are doing or what is going on around us. For if we saw the police and wanted to tell others the police location. We would say "I saw smokey or smokey bear at McDonalds at whatever location they were at"
Jerry was also a famous studio guitar musician, a contemporary of Glenn Campbell & Roy Clark, but in Nashville, TN. He also got into acting and was cast for the Smokey & The Bandit movie and asked to write some songs for the movie which is this song.
Man I loved that Movie and this Song is one of my top favourites. It used to be my ringtone for a your
Good ol' boys at heart, both Elvis and Jerry knew deep down something that the Colonel could never understand.
...art is personal, music ESPECIALLY!
God bless 'em, the Colonel too 🙏🏽
Y'all R.I.P. 🎸🎸🎸
I didn't know this truck would do 97! ❤
That last riff he used in his solo; Iron Maiden used. Mind blown.
Wow, I love Jerry and Iron maiden and hadn't heard that before! I'll have to check it out! Thx!
Another great songwriter, Kris Kristofferson who, like Jerry Reed, spent a lot of time as an actor rather than doing their music. This is what I consider his best song .... ua-cam.com/video/HCgnbRWVvU8/v-deo.html Kris recently went to meet his maker. He was a real interesting person and I can't possibly do his biography justice here, so, please look him up. And, then react to the song I've linked.
In the US in the late 70s/early 80s, country music had a huge moment and many of the songs crossed over to the popular music charts - Pop Goes the Country was a TV variety show around that theme. Love Jerry Reed!
I think I’ve seen Smokey and the bandit about 10 times. Haven’t seen it in years. It was cheesy, but it was also hilarious and just a good old time. It wasn’t meant to be an Academy award winner. And that’s what was so great about it.
Love Jerry, he was a load of fun. Another artist you might enjoy is James Taylor and his son "Fire and Rain".
Try the Raging Cajun who also ran with these guys - Doug Kershaw. He could play a Fiddle very unorthodox but was a master.
"Lightning Rod" is a cool instrumental piece that Jerry Reed performs.
“ When you’re hot, you’re Hot “ is a pretty funky little tune.
One of the greatest movie songs of all time from one of the greatest movies of all time. Smoky and the Bandit.
TOM T HALL is the song writer you need to check out
Singin’ in the kitchen!
East bound and down was the theme song to a great southern movie called Smokey and the Bandit. Jerry reed was an amazing guitarist and singer. And a great actor. Check out his song Amos Moses
Jerry Reed was easily one of the most underrated country stars of his time. Make no mistake, he was definitely well-recognized; but he deserved so much more than what he received. RIP Snowman.
Love Jerry Reed. Listened to him growing up. Big Daddy was one of my favs.
Smoky and the bandit he did the whole soundtrack by the way I was his bass player for 10 years. Love your video. It made me happy.
Pop Goes the Country was one of the best TV shows in the country in the 70s and featured every star of the era in live performances. It was hosted by Ralph Emery.
I was 18 in 1973 and the lead singer/Rythym guitar in a honky tonk band in Ft. Worth Texas for 20 years. So yes this was on my set list! enjoy you're channel.
3 of my favorite videos that I visit often: Jerry Reed & Glen Campbell performing (1) this song, (2) "Guitar Man," & "Southern Nights." I also like "Wayfaring Stranger" by these two.
I just heard someone do a reaction to Jerry Reeds record version of Wayfaring Stranger and was blown away. I never knew Jerry could sing like that, very deep voice & the music was awesome. I love Glen too so I'll be looking for that, thank you. ❤😊
I can’t believe we live in a world that someone has not heard this song nor know what it’s from. I’m glad that you listen to it and I’m sure by now you know where it’s from and you’ve probably watched the movie. This was only the number two movie in 1977 second only the Star Wars.
In Smokey and the Bandit, Jerry plays a “motorcycle mechanic”! Haha
Singer, song writer, actor, RIP Jerry you are truly missed.
Glen Campbell, Roy Clark, Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins. 4 absolute greats. Chet even played on some Elvis stuff back in the 50's.
The song is from Smokey and the Bandit. He was in the movie and drove a big rig. He reeks with coolness. A great personality. I always loved Jerry Reed.
Listen up younguns. These two "Kids" were cutting records and their own radio program in 1954. By 1955 they regular performing stars on a California TV show known Ranch Party. They wrote this song called Hoy Hoy
Smokey and the Bandit is the film it came from. Burt Reynolds starring with Sally Field. Also had Jackie Gleason as the hapless Sheriff.
Although not from this era…2 of Country’s greatest guitarist & must see footage:
Keith Urban - Shelby County Jail - live
Vince Gill - Oklahoma Boarder Line - live
The song is from Smokey and the Bandit. But the title: "East Bound and Down" refers to the objective of the movie. They were illegally transporting a semi-truck full of Coors beer from Colorado to Florida. The route was east bound frim Colorado and down towards Florida. Look at a map of the US, and that will make sense. In those days, Coors beer could not be sold East of the Mississippi River.
Actually Smokey picked up the Coors beer,that was not illegal,but not sold east of the Mississippi River due to its cold brew process necessitated refrigerated transport that was not financially feasible past the river. Smokey (Jerry Reed) also picked up the load in Texarkana, like the song says, and headed east to Atlanta, like the song says. The illegal part was speeding down the road.
Eastbound and down means drive east & drive FAST!
Amos Moses is my favorite Jerry Reed song. Another one of those country singer songwriter guitar players that people seem to forget is Eddie Rabbitt. He wrote Kentucky Rain for Elvis and he had a number of big hits like Driving My Life Away.
I went to a Jerry Reed concert many years ago and it was a fantastic show!! He didn't just play music, he and his band put on a show with all kind of humor embedded in it, that blew my mind,. Hey, get this, I'm a gigantic rock fan and it was awesome... Had everyone on their feet during the performance! Smokey and the Bandit made that song famous and that was their fanale.
I was lucky enough to see Jerry Reed live in Taylorville, Illinois in the late 1970s. He was an absolutely fun performer and truly liked the fans. He actually stopped mid song to let me take his photo.
Amos Moses is my favorite Jerry Reed tune. He also did the them to Bill Dance fishing show.
Back in 1979, we were the first to get cable in our neighborhood, Smokey and the bandit was playing on Showtime. I loved it and watched it every single time they played it. I knew every single word. One night my older brother came in with a couple friends……..I sat in my mom’s chair not really watching but reciting every word of the movie. One of those guys watched me, and we ended up marrying the next year. That movie holds a special place for us.
Jerry reed was true country. Played the guitar just like my grandpa
If there is one guy I would have loved to live to 200, that would have been Jerry Reed! He's country, and he's not quite country, and he's always got so much happiness going in his recordings. My favorite early/late country album would be Jerry Reed's 'Red Hot Picker'. He was also a very good actor, so he did his stuff for the classic Smokey and the Bandit movies!
Jerry Reed’s Amos Mosses and Mule Skinner Blues are a must listen.
this is my favorite song of his. love the movie too.
Song was in the 1977 film “Smokey and the Bandit”. Jerry Reed was Cledus (the semi truck driver).
It was one of several songs that were written by and performed by The late great Jerry Reed for the film titled "Smokey and the Bandit".
Eastbound and Down... From the movie Smokey and the Bandit.. They are driving East to get the Coors Beer back to Georgia in a certain amount of time.. Funny story.. my BF was a Nascar driver back in the 90's.. and I went down to Florida to watch her qualify.. we went to a restaurant later for supper and this song came on.. we started singing it... in harmony.. not even knowing that we both knew the song.. we had only become friends maybe 6 months before.. still friends 25 plus years later and this is our song.
Excellent - go glad that you found Jerry !! Time to watch Smokey and the Bandit- fun times
Jerry Reed grew up on the southside of Atlanta Ga. One of my favorite songs was, She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)
Song.
Smokey and the bandit. It was the opening song in the movie. There was a tv show called " Eastbound and Down" with Danny McBride
Grady Martin played everything. Jazz, pop, country. He was a Nashville mainstay for years.
The amazing acoustic guitar on Marty Robbin’s El Paso was Grady! He did the entire song in one take!
Hello from North Carolina USA!🇺🇸 The song was in the Smokey and the Bandit movie where Jerry Reed plays the 18 wheeler driver.
From singing to acting, Jerry Reed was such a versatile artist.
One of my favorites, obviously!
There’s also a Westbound And Down in the same movie.
Jerry's breakdown hearing him on a nylon string guitar is something else !
He played ( the Snow man) in the movie (Smokey and the bandit ). Master guitar player. Unique picking still .
Jerry Reed - another GREAT Country Music guitarist.
LESSON 1: Jerry Reed is perfectly dressed any time, even if he's not wearing shoes. "That's just Jerry" is the universal answer to many questions. He was basically a movie character without the movie, playing and joking and laughing his way through life until someone decided, "You know, we ought to put that guy in a movie."
Jerry Reed was a BEAST. Just an OG. Totally one of a kind.
Smokey and the Bandit was the movie with Jerry Reed as The Snowman, Jackie Gleason as Buford T. Justice, Sally Field as Frog and Burt Reynolds as The Bandit. Jerry Reed was a main character in the movie as well as singing this well-known song written for the movie.
Jerry Reed was a singer songwriter from the "golden age" of country, and quite possibly one of the greatest guitar players of all time, certainly of the 20th century. Definitely one of the fastest pickers. Eastbound and Down was from the 1977 Burt Reynolds classic Smokey and the Bandit (which btw, where I'm from down south is considered more of a documentary than a fiction film, lol). Jerry also starred in the movie with Burt (they were close friends), showing his versatility also as an actor. The story with this song is that Hal Needham, who directed the film, went to Jerry one day during filming and said he needed a "travel song" for the film and could Jerry put something together before they went to editing in a few months. Jerry went back to his trailer that night, and came back the next morning with this song, completely fleshed out and ready to record. He was a down to earth, good ol' country boy who was known for being rather unfazed by his enormous talent. He once said in an interview when asked about how he deals with being such a huge talent, "I just play guitar, and people like it. That's good enough for me."
he was on a coors beer run. years ago, coors had to stay on the west side pf the mississippi river. east bound was taking coors to atlanta
Jerry Reed, the first concert I ever seen. I loved it
'Amos Moses' by Jerry Reed and only Jerry. 👍👍
He was the truck driver in the movie Smokey and the Bandit!
From one of the best movies, Smokey and the Bandit! First saw it at drive-in. Jerry was such a funny guy!
I live in Phenix City,AL just 2 hours south west of Atlanta,GA this song was in the movie Smokey and the Bandit it was made around Atlanta area very funny movie Jerry Reed in this movie at Snowman the truck driver if you never seen the movie need to watch it the movie came out I believe in 1977 I'm now 53 and I'm a over the road truck driver I can relate to this song more now the Smokey and the Bandit 2 came out in 1980 very good East bound and Down means your going east on a highway and down part means going fast have foot down on the gas
"Now watch old Bandit run", this was in the movie Smokey and the Bandit, Jerry was in the movie, as the trucker, Snowman.
It’s a trucker song it was written for the movie smoking the bandit. He was a country guy famous for his guitar work and picking Fast and he also starred in the movie. He was an actor as well. It’s a song about driving a truck and the theme of the movie, eastbound was a direct and he headed down your pedal was pushed down to the floor driving as fast as you could et cetera et cetera. Smoky bandit, it was worth it. lol
His daughter worked at the marina where I keep my boat in Nashville and he loved to fish so he was there often. He talk and acted no dii it different that he did when performing and was a nice guy.
Well done, Greetings from the Republic of Texas!
From the movie Smokey and the bandit .. great song,
East bound and down, CB chat , down is off the air basically. Great video, just found your channel 🤘
Playing in his socks. He was the coolest. Amazing player.
Man I loved Smokey and the Bandit! Still watch on occasion and quote it often!