The great Jerry Reed, dead at 71. Everyone knows the movie role, but I still remember him most for such country classics as “She Got The Gold Mine, I Got The Shaft.”
Birmingham-born Californian, age fifty-two, cannot return to his native state…there are 651,972 reasons why
Awww, I loved his music. I also liked that his name and mine were only one letter apart. I’m going to play some of his stuff today in his honor.