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Jerry Reed: The Unbelievable Guitar & Voice - Alabama Wild Man - Nashville Underground - Better Things In Life (2-CD)

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The first four RCA albums of the late Jerry Reed from 1967, 1968 and 1969, Jerry Reed was a multi-talented musician and singer-songwriter, and received great public attention when Elvis Presley landed great hits with Reed's songs 'Guitar Man' and 'U.S. Male'. Reed made it to number 1 in the country charts in the early 1970s with 'Lord Mr. Ford' and 'When You're Hot, You're Hot'. In the mid-1970s he preferred a successful acting career to a return to music. Extensive new liner notes.

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  • Album titlle: The Unbelievable Guitar & Voice - Alabama Wild Man - Nashville Underground - Better Things In Life (2-CD)

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Reed, Jerry - The Unbelievable Guitar & Voice - Alabama Wild Man - Nashville Underground - Better Things In Life (2-CD) CD 1
01 Don't Work That Way Jerry Reed
02 Guitar Man Jerry Reed
03 You're Young Jerry Reed
04 Woman Shy Jerry Reed
05 I Feel For You Jerry Reed
06 Take A Walk Jerry Reed
07 Love Man Jerry Reed
08 If I Promise Jerry Reed
09 US Male Jerry Reed
10 Long Gone Jerry Reed
11 If It Comes To That Jerry Reed
12 The Claw Jerry Reed
13 Alabama Wild Man Jerry Reed
14 Love Prints Jerry Reed
15 Broken Heart Attack Jerry Reed
16 Free Born Man Jerry Reed
17 Last Train To Clarksville Jerry Reed
18 Twelve Bar Midnight Jerry Reed
19 Losing Your Love Jerry Reed
20 Today Is Mine Jerry Reed
21 Maybe In Time Jerry Reed
22 House Of The Rising Sun Jerry Reed
23 You'd Better Take Time Jerry Reed
Reed, Jerry - The Unbelievable Guitar & Voice - Alabama Wild Man - Nashville Underground - Better Things In Life (2-CD) CD 2
01 Remembering Jerry Reed
02 A Thing Called Love Jerry Reed
03 You Wouldn't Know A Good Thing Jerry Reed
04 Save Your Dreams Jerry Reed
05 Almost Crazy Jerry Reed
06 You've Been Crying Again Jerry Reed
07 Fine On My Mind Jerry Reed
08 Tupelo Mississippi Flash Jerry Reed
09 Wabash Cannonball Jerry Reed
10 Hallelujah I Love Her So Jerry Reed
11 John Henry Jerry Reed
12 Roving Gambler Jerry Reed
13 Pride Today Jerry Reed
14 The Likes Of Me Jerry Reed
15 Blues Land Jerry Reed
16 Coming Up Roses Jerry Reed
17 Johnny Wants To Be A Star Jerry Reed
18 There's Better Things In Life Jerry Reed
19 Oh What A Woman! Jerry Reed
20 Patches Of Blue Jerry Reed
21 Swinging '69 Jerry Reed
22 Someday You'll Call My Name Jerry Reed
23 I'm A Happy Man Jerry Reed
Jerry Reed has never been fashionable among those erudite journalists who endlessly... more
"Jerry Reed"

Jerry Reed has never been fashionable among those erudite journalists who endlessly rhapsodize over Merle Haggard, George Jones, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. Perhaps his brash, blue-collar attitude never seemed as alluring or romantic as those country performers once labeled as outlaws. But in a career spanning nearly a half-century, Reed has produced a remarkable body of work that remains largely unappreciated.

Reed's core audience fan base will always be the uncritical fans who best know him through his hit records and frequent acting roles in movies and television. But other Reed enthusiasts view him from more sharply defined perspectives. Guitarists know the dexterous fingerpicker with a style and original repertoire that defies imitation. Perceptive country music critics treasure the innovative albums he made for RCA Victor between 1965 and 1976 – his peak creative years. And then there's the collectors who treasure Reed's seminal work for Capitol between 1955 and 1958 - a joyous mix of honky tonk country, rockabilly and fifties pop. This long overdue reissue is for them.

In speaking to reporters, Reed generally dismissed these early recordings, preferring to start his story in 1965, when Chet Atkins began producing his records and got his musical career on track. He graciously responds to inevitable queries about his early years, retelling the story about receiving his first guitar and acknowledging mentors like publisher Bill Lowery and Capitol Records producer Ken Nelson. Not surprisingly, Reed would rather jump ahead to catalog his successes than relive the frustrations and failures that marked his first ten years in music.

Jerry Reed Hubbard was the second child born to Robert Spencer Hubbard and Cynthia Hubbard, two Atlanta cotton mill workers who barely earned enough money to keep the family together. Jerry's birth on March 20, 1937 strained an already troubled marriage, and four months later the couple separated. For the next seven years Jerry and his sister were shuttled between Georgia orphanages and foster homes. They finally returned home in 1944 when their mother married Hubert Howard, another mill worker.

Music provided a welcome diversion for the family. "When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show," Reed told Bob Anderson in a 1979 'Pickin'' interview. "I'd sit beside the radio and listen to the Grand Ole Opry and play rhythm on a hairbrush."

Encouraged by her son's continuing passion for music, Cynthia Howard saved seven dollars to buy a secondhand guitar from a neighbor. Using a nickel as a flat pick, she taught the nine-year-old his first chords. "She taught me C and G, a clawhammer G, and I proceeded to drive her crazy," he told Anderson. "I'd sit on the trunk in the kitchen -- I'd get up there 'cause I wanted to be on stage, you know. I always wanted to be an entertainer. And I don't have any other memories of ever wanting to be anything else."

From the start he was determined to play music his own way. "I took one or two lessons," he told a reporter in 1969. "But the guy tried to make me throw my thumbpick away, so I quit that."

One of his earliest influences was western Kentucky singer-songwriter Merle Travis, whose fluid fingerstyle guitar inspired a generation of musicians. "There was a song called 'I Am A Pilgrim'," he told Anderson. "I thought when I heard it, 'Boy, there it is! That man is walking with the big dog. He knows where the bodies are buried and I want some of that.'"

By the time he entered Atlanta's O'Keefe High School, Reed was already writing and singing novelty songs. He also dabbled in acting, taking roles in school plays throughout his freshman and sophomore years. After completing his second year, Reed left school to work in an Atlanta cotton mill. He spent his free time honing his performing skills in local honky tonks. His early style was closely patterned after his principal musical heroes: Hank Williams and Tommy Collins. He also developed skills as an entertainer, often stopping a show with his imitations of popular country artists.

In 1954 an Atlanta policeman, LeRoy Sumner, introduced the youth to Bill Lowery, who helmed a popular live country music show Saturday mornings over WGST radio. In a 1989 interview with Jim Ohlschmidt, Lowery vividly remembered Reed auditioning for him with a self-penned novelty called Aunt Meg's Wooden Leg.

Recognizing Hubbard's talent, Lowery -- already an established music publisher -- encouraged him to write more songs and offered to guide his career. He brokered the youth's first road experience: a thirty-day tour opening for Ernest Tubb and the Texas Troubadors. For Reed, any lingering thoughts of possibly completing high school quickly dissipated. "School was never the same after that," Reed later said. "I knew what I was gonna spend my life doin'. Nothin' else made any sense. Nothin' else made any difference."

Reed joined Lowery at WGST, working part-time as a disc jockey. At night he performed with a band Lowery managed, Kenny Lee and the Western Playboys. "Pete Drake was on steel and I played guitar," he recalled. "That's how I broke in, playin' dance gigs, clubs, skull orchards."

On November 16, 1954, Reed performed at a gala country show in Atlanta honoring Faron Young...

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Tracklist
Reed, Jerry - The Unbelievable Guitar & Voice - Alabama Wild Man - Nashville Underground - Better Things In Life (2-CD) CD 1
01 Don't Work That Way
02 Guitar Man
03 You're Young
04 Woman Shy
05 I Feel For You
06 Take A Walk
07 Love Man
08 If I Promise
09 US Male
10 Long Gone
11 If It Comes To That
12 The Claw
13 Alabama Wild Man
14 Love Prints
15 Broken Heart Attack
16 Free Born Man
17 Last Train To Clarksville
18 Twelve Bar Midnight
19 Losing Your Love
20 Today Is Mine
21 Maybe In Time
22 House Of The Rising Sun
23 You'd Better Take Time
Reed, Jerry - The Unbelievable Guitar & Voice - Alabama Wild Man - Nashville Underground - Better Things In Life (2-CD) CD 2
01 Remembering
02 A Thing Called Love
03 You Wouldn't Know A Good Thing
04 Save Your Dreams
05 Almost Crazy
06 You've Been Crying Again
07 Fine On My Mind
08 Tupelo Mississippi Flash
09 Wabash Cannonball
10 Hallelujah I Love Her So
11 John Henry
12 Roving Gambler
13 Pride Today
14 The Likes Of Me
15 Blues Land
16 Coming Up Roses
17 Johnny Wants To Be A Star
18 There's Better Things In Life
19 Oh What A Woman!
20 Patches Of Blue
21 Swinging '69
22 Someday You'll Call My Name
23 I'm A Happy Man