I laugh at Rolling Stone not having Jerry on their 100 greatest guitar players of all time. Are they saying 100 people can play better than this? No way.
man thank you! every time I watch chet and jerry play I think the same thing. Anyone who says Jimi Hendrix or Jimi Page could play like these guys really don't know much about the guitar. This is a perfect example of how amazing Jerry really is, and Jerry's Breakdown is a great example of Chet and Jerry when they play it live. I'm glad to know there are other people kicking around that feel the same.
The difference between Hendrix and Jerry is Jerry is picker and Hendrix is a strummer. A picker plays both ends of the guitar and a strummer plays only one end. Much harder to be a picker plus Jerry sang while he played so he is doing 3 things at the same time. Rolling Stone isn't sophisticated enough to understand this. BB King who was listed by Rolling Stone as the greatest Guitar player ever can't sing and play guitar at the same time.
toscodav I don't think you have to take anybody down to build Jerry up. Hendrix was great. BB is great too. And of course Rolling Stone is a rag that cannot be taken seriously.
Yes, Jerry Reed is underrated as far as much of the general public is aware of.... BUT Jerry is one of only 4 guitarists in the ENTIRE WORLD who was honored personally by Chet Atkins with the CERTIFIED GUITAR PLAYER AWARD. Now THAT is recognition!
I don't see how Roy Clark didn't get to tack "CGP" onto his name. His performances of 'Malaguena' (v=Pz2hXI7Ny9I)) with or without a couple of hours of concert straddling either side of that particular six-minute piece -- IMO -- really oughta had marked him up. Roy played a lot, and a lot of styles, too. I'll absolutely throw down with Jerry any day of the week/fortnight/month/year/decade/etc., but I'm saddened when recognition is preceded by "lack of". -- How many people would be upset if I wrote, "Keap you're peddle two the meddle, sun nevvre mind them breaks"?
Truth. I never thought of Jerry as underrated because I was listening to him before I could talk (thanks to my dad). He was extremely popular as a country singer songwriter with great guitar leads and duets on his albums (glad my dad enjoyed his boom*chick instrumentals; it was my mom who liked his country music songs; me not too much). Plus, he was on TV all the time playing his guitar-- mostly on the music TV Hee Haw (sometimes with Chet!), either by himself or dueling with Roy Clark-- another master guitarist, but he was known for his lightning speed flat picking (as opposed to finger picking). My second guitar teacher (I started at age 7 in the mid 1970s) loved Jerry and played like him all the time. Every guitarist I knew knew of and thought Jerry was insanely talented. He was also always mentioned in Guitar Player. Smokey and The Bandit brought him fame outside the country music and Travis and Boom*Chick guitar playing categories, respectively.
@@MWGrossmann It was up to Chet to confer the honor. Some say there were only three, others say five. According to Wiki, the late great Marcel Dadi was one of the CGP's but apparently being able to play Chet and Jerry as well if not better than they could isn't good enough. The Dadi albums with Chet are all superb, however.
@@drivernjax You know that that's because Jerry Reed WROTE the song, and recorded it before Elvis', and they couldn't get a guitarplayer that could do it right other than Jerry, don't you?
Not only is he fluid and speedy, his every riff and lick is nuanced, thoughtful, and tremendously sophisticated--all in stark contrast to his stage persona. Awesome!
I've watched this over and over and just amazed at all of the different rhythms, riffs and different beats in this song! Not one flaw. Absolute perfection! No other person on earth could play this with such energy and feel as Jerry did on lightning.
I spent years as a massive fan of Eric Johnson. I first saw him play in 1978 in essentially a living room of a 1920s bungalow that had been turned in to a nightclub in Houston. I knew he greatly admired Jerry Reed, and even had a song named after him that I'd heard him play many times--but when I finally saw this clip years later I was dumbfounded. A foundation of Eric's style is grabbing chords with all fingers simultaneously, rather than strumming, just like Jerry is doing here. Genius stuff. Jerry Reed was the f***ing man!
he is so underrated. everybody knows him for Smokey and the Bandit and one or two songs but he had insane talent. World class guitarist, awesome singer/song writer and actor and had the personality to go with it. RIP buddy
Clever! I remember watching a "making of" special about Smokey & the Bandit. I'm paraphrasing, but after a number of days of shooting, they pulled Jerry aside and asked about the music he had agreed to create for the film. His response was, "Oh sure, let me play a few licks I've been working on." As he played, no notes, just straight from the brain, the production execs looked at each other as if to say "We were worried?"
2nd guitarist from the left is smiling like jethro and waving away on that gitfiddle and at the end he throws up his right fist like he just won the heavyweight title lmao i freaking think it is pricelesss thanx for the post
How have I never know the brilliance and beauty of this man's playing?? I remember seeing Jerry Reed in some Burt Reynolds movies, and playing some silly bit-parts in old comedy's but damn.....this dude not only set the bar for finger style....he SMASHED it! I have some listening to do.
Now country music 🎶 such as Jerry Reed is fun and uplifting and meaningful and upbeat ❤😂🎉😅😊 and enjoyable and entertaining and enthusiastic!👍🏿🙏🏿👼🏿! 1:17
I've been playing the guitar a lot of years but I'll be able to find a cure for the common cold before I come remotely close to playing like Jerry. Incredible talent!!
My guitar watched this with me and then gave me that look. Before she could speak I shook my head and said..."It ain't happenin'!!" She now has a new owner.
Musician, singer, song-writer, and actor. JR did them all competently, but he excelled on the guitar. He makes complex finger-style guitar look easy. Lighting Rod might be the only piece I've seen him do where it looked like he really needed to focus.
Every performance is a real gem!! Great stuff!! I stayed away from country in my early twenties... BIG mistake!! So many talented people..... This is the real acoustic metal made in america!! Thank you Mr. Reed... R.I.P.
this guy had the whole package: charisma, stage presence, a sense of humor, chops from hell AND musicality...a true role model for aspiring musicians of all styles
me and 2 buddys seen Jerry at the Watertown SD casino and he looked up at us in the balcony above and looked right at us and said " Good Luck Boys ! You're Gonna Need It ! " I almost cryed. I will allways rememember that night . He was and allways will be a hero of mine. Go Snowman !
i only found out today, the saddest thing i've heard in a long while. just goes to show just what a man jerry was. nobody around today has a patch on him, that's true talent that he had. always an inspiration to me, thankyou jerry.
He was so far up there with the best of them and unfortunatly people know him more from smokey and the bandit than his great guitar playing. As scaredpicker said- A true guitar hero!
Needles to say, Jerry was a great virtuoso. I find it amusing that he cut his guitar with a saw to reach the higher frets, because t that time, there were no nylon string guitars with cutaways avalible on the market.
Holy shit! This is just brilliant. It'll take me the better part of a year of solid practice to get something even mildly close to this! It sure as hell inspires you to play though; that, or throw the damn thing out the window!
Been playing guitar for 13 years and seeing shit like this makes me feel like a complete noob. I love it though because that's the fun of the instrument, always seeing new things that expand your horizons and inspire you to want to strive to be a better player. Jerry is absolutely ripping that thing to pieces.
This crazy effer and Chet Atkins MAKE ME CRY jesus christ legendary does not cut it im so glad some people exist. A lot of others shouldn't bother... but hey hey what can i do? music is the best thing in the worlddddd it makes everyone happy and that matters
He was sure a good guitar picker and a great entertainer,and I sure miss his creativity.He always had a surprise for ya whenever he came out with something new on the radio.
before the whole CGP thing Jerry would play stuff like this extemporaneously, Chet would hear it and think, "Wow, what composition !" Later, he would ask, "Jerry, play that again." Jerry: "Play WHAT again ?" He'd forget 'em fastern than he could pick 'em." Chet took to recording Jerry's improvisational stuff...learned 'em studied on 'em, touched 'em up a bit and... The whole "CGP" thing was born. Nobody better. Nobody, for my buck, combined deftness, innovation,, speed, ability, out--of-the-box composition and overall, downright genius like the the Wild Man !! no ?
Strong musicality!!! The comments talk about his finger picking, and miss the pleasantness of the tune. Very enjoyable guitar tone, great punctuation and timing as he sings, seems to dance as he plays. Great compositional chops. Displays joy while he plays. I think it's time to binge watch this guy.
Later on the same show, Reed explains that he had to use glue-on fingernails on his right hand to play this. He was filming "Gator" at the time and had to keep them trimmed.
I miss the days when the country artists were talented guitarists. They're will out there. Just not on the radio or billboards. Thanks to platforms like YT for providing a place to find these guitarists and musicians.
See the cutaway in that guitar, Jerry took the guitar to a guy's shop in Nashville and said, "Son I want a cutaway." The shop owner said. "Where you want it Jerry?" "About right here son." And you see what he got. That Baldwin is owned by Paul Yendall now....
Cool! I remember the first time I watched this thinking I was just going to take a hack saw to my Yamaha and make it look like that... I kinda wish I had because I ended up smashing it in rage one day trying to learn Take Five by Chet Atkins, but hey, now I have a way nice Taylor!
Hey, Bad Turbulence... Take a trip to Nashville and ask some of the all-time top guitarists who are still with us, how good Jerry Reed was. Do you play? I've played lead guitar for 48 years, certainly not the best, but decent, and I know music. I seriously doubt if you could even play rhythm guitar to this number. Jerry was one of the very best! If you don't believe it, ask the people in the industry who really know. Regards.
+David Forrester Bad Turbulence is obviously not a candidate for Certified guitar Player so fuck his delusional and/or possibly trolling ass. but why is Jerry Reed not in the Nashville Hall of Fame though? This is quite disconcerting to me and is an error which clearly must be rectified post haste!
I bet those British musicians were watching Jerry closely...Many axmen measure a guitar players talent by his chops. Well here is the man who has them all. R.I.P. Jerry. I do miss you..
This is why I'm a bass player.... No way in hell could I ever come close to playin like Jerry Reed. Such amazing talent. One of my all time faves. And I have seen Tommy Emmanuel live(he signed one of my guitars) Tommy is awesome... But he ain't Jerry Reed.
Jerry Reed was the MAN during this twilight timezone:) He was so exciting to watch, and this was was real cutting edge guitar at the time, and it is still great:) Miss you Jerry! Saw him at the fair:)
This legend can't possibly be gone! It is so sad to me! I had to find out like a day late from a friend that he was gone, I didn't hear anything on the radio, on the TV, anything! I am glad that at least here people are remembering him the way he should be remembered! Thank you Jerry Reed and thank you people out there who are missing him too!
Check out JR's version of "Georgia", and while you're at it..."Hallelujah I Love Her So". What a talent JR was, blues, jazz, country... it didn't matter.
It's a shame that in our 'modern' music world we have emphasized the talents on Hendrix, May, Clapton, Knopfler and others but never do we hear about Jerry Reed, Glen Campbell, Roy Clark to name a few... This is just my opinion but these guys were in a league of guitarists above and beyond any of the modern musicians..
its easy to judge someone who lives in the spotlight. Jerry grew up dirt floor poor and built a success in life. He was a little eccentric which i like. I wouldnt say he was a douche. Everyone loses their cool! I love. that line from S&B pt 2 when jerry wins the gear jammer race and is bein interviewed by a pretty journalist lady and when she goes to take his picture jerry says "You dont have to take my picture baby, ill come home and sit on your mantle". Classic! Lol he just says funny stuff like that.
I agree Jerry was a phenomenal guitarist. Check out him and Chet Atkins playing Jerry's breakdown. The two albums he and Chet ( Me and Chet and Me and Jerry) recorded have now been re-released on one cd. They were awesome !!!!
@@mgordan6355Jerry's early style was based on Merle Travis' fingerpicking style. It was unique in that it heavily incorporated "banjo rolls" as part of the guitar playing approach! So yep, you picked up on that stylistic similarity which remained an influence on Jerry's playing his whole life. He was an amazing talent, but what I rarely hear people mention is, he was also known for practicing 10+ hours a day! Talent + hard work, he was an incredible player...
Jerry Reed with from the left, Rick Wayne acoustic, Bill Rehrig Acoustic, Ty Corbett hi hat, Richard Shook bass and Danny Dunn steel....
They have an agenda.
Jerry Reed is a guitarists guitarists. Can play any style, yet has his own distinct one.
Fuckin Rolling Stone is completely irrelevant anyway man. All poppy sheet and no idea of talent
Who chopped that guitar up, what a mess.
He is now my favorite guitarist beating out Roy Buchanan, Jeff Beck, John Renbourn and Danny Gatton.
I laugh at Rolling Stone not having Jerry on their 100 greatest guitar players of all time. Are they saying 100 people can play better than this? No way.
Jimi Hendrix couldn't play this good
toscodav Totally different styles, but yeah Jerry is top 100 all time easy.
man thank you! every time I watch chet and jerry play I think the same thing. Anyone who says Jimi Hendrix or Jimi Page could play like these guys really don't know much about the guitar. This is a perfect example of how amazing Jerry really is, and Jerry's Breakdown is a great example of Chet and Jerry when they play it live. I'm glad to know there are other people kicking around that feel the same.
The difference between Hendrix and Jerry is Jerry is picker and Hendrix is a strummer. A picker plays both ends of the guitar and a strummer plays only one end. Much harder to be a picker plus Jerry sang while he played so he is doing 3 things at the same time. Rolling Stone isn't sophisticated enough to understand this. BB King who was listed by Rolling Stone as the greatest Guitar player ever can't sing and play guitar at the same time.
toscodav
I don't think you have to take anybody down to build Jerry up. Hendrix was great. BB is great too. And of course Rolling Stone is a rag that cannot be taken seriously.
The only man in Nashville who could address Chet Atkins as "son".
@Clifford Yawn no
He was chets son in law
lol!
@@jonwhite1134no. Not hardly.
Yes, Jerry Reed is underrated as far as much of the general public is aware of.... BUT Jerry is one of only 4 guitarists in the ENTIRE WORLD who was honored personally by Chet Atkins with the CERTIFIED GUITAR PLAYER AWARD. Now THAT is recognition!
I don't see how Roy Clark didn't get to tack "CGP" onto his name. His performances of 'Malaguena' (v=Pz2hXI7Ny9I)) with or without a couple of hours of concert straddling either side of that particular six-minute piece -- IMO -- really oughta had marked him up. Roy played a lot, and a lot of styles, too.
I'll absolutely throw down with Jerry any day of the week/fortnight/month/year/decade/etc., but I'm saddened when recognition is preceded by "lack of".
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How many people would be upset if I wrote, "Keap you're peddle two the meddle, sun nevvre mind them breaks"?
@@MWGrossmann Yeh Roy Clark was well should be in that lot to, no doubt.
Truth. I never thought of Jerry as underrated because I was listening to him before I could talk (thanks to my dad). He was extremely popular as a country singer songwriter with great guitar leads and duets on his albums (glad my dad enjoyed his boom*chick instrumentals; it was my mom who liked his country music songs; me not too much).
Plus, he was on TV all the time playing his guitar-- mostly on the music TV Hee Haw (sometimes with Chet!), either by himself or dueling with Roy Clark-- another master guitarist, but he was known for his lightning speed flat picking (as opposed to finger picking).
My second guitar teacher (I started at age 7 in the mid 1970s) loved Jerry and played like him all the time.
Every guitarist I knew knew of and thought Jerry was insanely talented. He was also always mentioned in Guitar Player.
Smokey and The Bandit brought him fame outside the country music and Travis and Boom*Chick guitar playing categories, respectively.
@@MWGrossmann It was up to Chet to confer the honor. Some say there were only three, others say five. According to Wiki, the late great Marcel Dadi was one of the CGP's but apparently being able to play Chet and Jerry as well if not better than they could isn't good enough. The Dadi albums with Chet are all superb, however.
nobody underrates Jerry Reed . . . try again
Elvis Pressley: I need a guitarist who can play this part like Jerry Reed.
Record Producer: Then you're going to have to get Jerry Reed.
I loved Elvis’s “ guitar man” when I was a little kid, big influence on me
@@gearzilla4112 You mean Elvis' rendition of Jerry's "Guitar Man"?
MoonEyes Plays yup, it was kinda cool.. show em son! we don’t need no guitar man round here sonnnnnn....!
@@mooneyesplays7 You know that Jerry Reed played the guitar on Elvis' "Guitar Man" don't you?
@@drivernjax You know that that's because Jerry Reed WROTE the song, and recorded it before Elvis', and they couldn't get a guitarplayer that could do it right other than Jerry, don't you?
I don't think Jerry or Roy Clark ever got enough credit for their guitar! You don't hear many play like this anymore.
I completely agree I've been playing for nearly thirty years and I had a hard time learning their stuff always loved it
Jerry, Chet, Roy and Glenn. People don’t realize that metal bands took lessons from these guys.
Or Glenn Campbell.
He has at least one Grammy and played on Elvis's album on a cover of his own song. He got some decent recognition though
Because it's near impossible to do, even for experienced guitar players.
I had to turn off the CMA Awards and come to this page.
I feel much better now.
If Glen Campbell, an all time great, says Jerry Reed was one of the best guitarists ever then he was one of the best guitarists ever. Period.
I don't know about that, Marcin (a younger fellow) is another level. Tommy Emmanuel is also quite brilliant.
May I suggest you listen to GC and what everyone says about him. Sorry, but he was on another level from everyone else.
"Period" 🙄
Chet Atkins claimed Jerry was the best he heard.
So completely under-rated and under-appreciated as a musician and master guitarist
As a '' fingerstyle guitarist '' for 53 yrs. , i would like to say this is definitely the '' Gold Standard '' !
One of the best country and rockabilly guitarists ever.
or just guitarists
@@cremebrulee6667 is still interested to know how long you yesterday yi
Jerry Reed & Roy Clark, two top masters that ever were. R.I.P. guys and you're still rocking it.
One of the greatest finger pickers ever
One of the top 10 guitarist of all times in my opinion
@JESSE DANIEL I believe you're right.... SON!
I've got him at #2 on my list, behind only Chet Atkins.
@@cirrustate8674 Chet Atkins learned his main style (Travis picking) from him.
@@cirrustate8674And Chet had Jerry as #1 on his own list! 😊
Not only is he fluid and speedy, his every riff and lick is nuanced, thoughtful, and tremendously sophisticated--all in stark contrast to his stage persona. Awesome!
I've watched this over and over and just amazed at all of the different rhythms, riffs and different beats in this song! Not one flaw. Absolute perfection! No other person on earth could play this with such energy and feel as Jerry did on lightning.
Phil Emmanuel does a great version of this song!
I spent years as a massive fan of Eric Johnson. I first saw him play in 1978 in essentially a living room of a 1920s bungalow that had been turned in to a nightclub in Houston. I knew he greatly admired Jerry Reed, and even had a song named after him that I'd heard him play many times--but when I finally saw this clip years later I was dumbfounded. A foundation of Eric's style is grabbing chords with all fingers simultaneously, rather than strumming, just like Jerry is doing here. Genius stuff.
Jerry Reed was the f***ing man!
Brilliant commentary, sir. Brilliant.
he is so underrated. everybody knows him for Smokey and the Bandit and one or two songs but he had insane talent. World class guitarist, awesome singer/song writer and actor and had the personality to go with it. RIP buddy
@ wagstag So true. Ciao
You took the words right out of my mouth. He was a huge talent.
Greatest most underrated guitarist period.
YES !
Jerry should be ALL the music Halls of Fame. He was a virtuoso player and a really funny guy, a great old boy!
I done said it before. I will say it again. Jerry was AMAZING. Not just his acting skills, but that guitar pickin he did......Blows me away.
There's "playing guitar" and then there's "how it's done." This is how it's done! Simple as that. This is amazing!
He´s gonna do what they say can`t be done....
Damn good comment.
LOLOL!!!
tomhits he had a long way to go....
But I do believe he got there....
Well, right after he puts that hammer down and gives 'em hell.
Clever! I remember watching a "making of" special about Smokey & the Bandit. I'm paraphrasing, but after a number of days of shooting, they pulled Jerry aside and asked about the music he had agreed to create for the film. His response was, "Oh sure, let me play a few licks I've been working on." As he played, no notes, just straight from the brain, the production execs looked at each other as if to say "We were worried?"
2nd guitarist from the left is smiling like jethro and waving away on that gitfiddle and at the end he throws up his right fist like he just won the heavyweight title lmao i freaking think it is pricelesss thanx for the post
How have I never know the brilliance and beauty of this man's playing?? I remember seeing Jerry Reed in some Burt Reynolds movies, and playing some silly bit-parts in old comedy's but damn.....this dude not only set the bar for finger style....he SMASHED it! I have some listening to do.
Jerry Reed, nothing short of a guitar genius.
Now country music 🎶 such as Jerry Reed is fun and uplifting and meaningful and upbeat ❤😂🎉😅😊 and enjoyable and entertaining and enthusiastic!👍🏿🙏🏿👼🏿! 1:17
Bad ass. Simply bad ass guitar playing.
+thekingcobra63 There's literally no better combination of words to describe this.
MY FATHER USED TO TELL I COULD NOT PLAY GUITAR UNLESS I PLAYED THIS EXACT/PRECISE PIECE..
I AM VERY WELL AWARE OF THIS VIDEO..
There should be a law, when you're this good you should be able to live forever
My only regret is that I only have one like to give. Brilliant.
R.I.P Jerry Reed :(
I've been playing the guitar a lot of years but I'll be able to find a cure for the common cold before I come remotely close to playing like Jerry. Incredible talent!!
My guitar watched this with me and then gave me that look. Before she could speak I shook my head and said..."It ain't happenin'!!" She now has a new owner.
Musician, singer, song-writer, and actor. JR did them all competently, but he excelled on the guitar. He makes complex finger-style guitar look easy. Lighting Rod might be the only piece I've seen him do where it looked like he really needed to focus.
Every performance is a real gem!! Great stuff!! I stayed away from country in my early twenties... BIG mistake!! So many talented people..... This is the real acoustic metal made in america!! Thank you Mr. Reed... R.I.P.
this guy had the whole package: charisma, stage presence, a sense of humor, chops from hell AND musicality...a true role model for aspiring musicians of all styles
There are very few musicians as gifted and accomplished as Jerry Reed
me and 2 buddys seen Jerry at the Watertown SD casino and he looked up at us in the balcony above and looked right at us and said " Good Luck Boys ! You're Gonna Need It ! " I almost cryed. I will allways rememember that night . He was and allways will be a hero of mine. Go Snowman !
i only found out today, the saddest thing i've heard in a long while.
just goes to show just what a man jerry was. nobody around today has a patch on him, that's true talent that he had.
always an inspiration to me, thankyou jerry.
NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER TAKE THIS ONE DOWN! I was afraid I'd never find this footage again. Thanks!
man, he was SOOOOOOOOOO great!!!!!
He was so far up there with the best of them and unfortunatly people know him more from smokey and the bandit than his great guitar playing. As scaredpicker said- A true guitar hero!
Legend right here. You can't compare this man with any other musician from our time of music.
Needles to say, Jerry was a great virtuoso. I find it amusing that he cut his guitar with a saw to reach the higher frets, because t that time, there were no nylon string guitars with cutaways avalible on the market.
Holy shit! This is just brilliant. It'll take me the better part of a year of solid practice to get something even mildly close to this! It sure as hell inspires you to play though; that, or throw the damn thing out the window!
Holy crap! lol. Anyone who only knows Jerry Reed from Smokey and The Bandit needs to watch this.
garcemac jerry reed was a musician way before Smokey and the bandit.... he also wrote and sang all the songs in that movie
I know him from gator!
But I also knew him from hee haw appearances and porter Wagoner.
Been playing guitar for 13 years and seeing shit like this makes me feel like a complete noob. I love it though because that's the fun of the instrument, always seeing new things that expand your horizons and inspire you to want to strive to be a better player. Jerry is absolutely ripping that thing to pieces.
The guy really ripped. A true guitar hero
The Wild Man, with the gui-tar! Phenomenal playing. So glad to have stumbled upon this. Where are these TV shows now?!
I'm just starting to realize how special this guy was. Thanks for posting.
How do 21 people not like this?... Jerry shredding!!! Great video! Thanks so much for sharing this!
This crazy effer and Chet Atkins MAKE ME CRY jesus christ legendary does not cut it
im so glad some people exist. A lot of others shouldn't bother... but hey hey what can i do? music is the best thing in the worlddddd it makes everyone happy and that matters
Fantastic player.Fantastic him and Roy Clark both excellent pickers.
So amazing, he certainly was incredible! Needs to be mentioned more when speaking of the greatest players.
Every time I see a Jerry Reed clip my mind is blown!
Just discovering how good this man was. What a unique human being.
He was sure a good guitar picker and a great entertainer,and I sure miss his creativity.He always had a surprise for ya whenever he came out with something new on the radio.
Jerry was my hero and the most under rated guitarist ever! Fantastic tune! Thank you very much for posting this...I can't thank you enough.
before the whole CGP thing Jerry would play stuff like this extemporaneously, Chet would hear it and think, "Wow, what composition !"
Later, he would ask, "Jerry, play that again."
Jerry:
"Play WHAT again ?"
He'd forget 'em fastern than he could pick 'em."
Chet took to recording Jerry's improvisational stuff...learned 'em
studied on 'em, touched 'em up a bit and...
The whole "CGP" thing was born.
Nobody better. Nobody, for my buck, combined deftness, innovation,, speed, ability, out--of-the-box composition and overall, downright genius like the the Wild Man !! no ?
Chet and Jerry were great friends. Worked together, and although Chet was a great country guitar player, I think we're looking at the best
Strong musicality!!!
The comments talk about his finger picking, and miss the pleasantness of the tune.
Very enjoyable guitar tone, great punctuation and timing as he sings, seems to dance as he plays. Great compositional chops. Displays joy while he plays. I think it's time to binge watch this guy.
@@jeffreyjeziorski341 pi
Later on the same show, Reed explains that he had to use glue-on fingernails on his right hand to play this. He was filming "Gator" at the time and had to keep them trimmed.
Scary note-perfect playing, but was there ever a humbler guitarist?
I miss the days when the country artists were talented guitarists. They're will out there. Just not on the radio or billboards. Thanks to platforms like YT for providing a place to find these guitarists and musicians.
See the cutaway in that guitar, Jerry took the guitar to a guy's shop in Nashville and said, "Son I want a cutaway." The shop owner said. "Where you want it Jerry?" "About right here son." And you see what he got. That Baldwin is owned by Paul Yendall now....
Cool! I remember the first time I watched this thinking I was just going to take a hack saw to my Yamaha and make it look like that... I kinda wish I had because I ended up smashing it in rage one day trying to learn Take Five by Chet Atkins, but hey, now I have a way nice Taylor!
... and I also learned to play Take Five without smashing the Taylor if you care to know...
I played that guitar. Most Baldwins didn't have a good acoustic sound. That one did.
When Paul was alive he let me play it.
Nice.
Ken Snyder I guessed that from looking at the lines of the guitar. You can tell it's not part of the original design.
Hey, Bad Turbulence... Take a trip to Nashville and ask some of the all-time top guitarists who are still with us, how good Jerry Reed was. Do you play? I've played lead guitar for 48 years, certainly not the best, but decent, and I know music. I seriously doubt if you could even play rhythm guitar to this number. Jerry was one of the very best! If you don't believe it, ask the people in the industry who really know. Regards.
+David Forrester Bad Turbulence is obviously not a candidate for Certified guitar Player so fuck his delusional and/or possibly trolling ass. but why is Jerry Reed not in the Nashville Hall of Fame though? This is quite disconcerting to me and is an error which clearly must be rectified post haste!
THE "industry" ???
I bet those British musicians were watching Jerry closely...Many axmen measure a guitar players talent by his chops. Well here is the man who has them all. R.I.P. Jerry. I do miss you..
Goodness, son..Thanks for posting Lee Wolff
Shame on Rolling Stone for overlooking this incredible guitar player shame shame shame
It’s amazing he could play like this on an acoustic guitar!
This is why I'm a bass player.... No way in hell could I ever come close to playin like Jerry Reed. Such amazing talent. One of my all time faves. And I have seen Tommy Emmanuel live(he signed one of my guitars) Tommy is awesome... But he ain't Jerry Reed.
***** Neither one are as good as Tony Rice...
Hotamighty! There will never be another Jerry Reed..just awesome.
Incredibly talented
Unquestionably one of the most underrated guitar players in music history. Good ole Jerry. Love his playing and personality!
Gone but never forgotten
Jerry Reed was the MAN during this twilight timezone:)
He was so exciting to watch, and this was was real cutting edge guitar at the time, and it is still great:)
Miss you Jerry!
Saw him at the fair:)
94 people know they couldn't play one split second of this as fluidly as the Snowman, and they're green with envy.
This song was used in the movie Moonrunners
Very underrated guitar player, and one of my favorites in terms of technical ability.
Love to hear this in a metal/hard rock variant.
After watching this, I just looked at my acoustic and said,
"Well, why can't WE do that?"
This legend can't possibly be gone! It is so sad to me! I had to find out like a day late from a friend that he was gone, I didn't hear anything on the radio, on the TV, anything! I am glad that at least here people are remembering him the way he should be remembered! Thank you Jerry Reed and thank you people out there who are missing him too!
Nothing like a big hot bowl of guitar playing humility from a true master. It's funny how many people only know him through his acting career...
I had forgotten he was actually talented. It's been so long since these days.
So true!
yeah, I knew he played, but I didn't know he could play like THIS….. awesome!
[Jaw drops]. It's taken many months to (just about) learn 'The Claw' but thats way, way to good. RIP Jerry - wish I'd got to see you live.
Rest in Peace, Jerry. What an extraordinary talent!
Check out JR's version of "Georgia", and while you're at it..."Hallelujah I Love Her So".
What a talent JR was, blues, jazz, country... it didn't matter.
It's a shame that in our 'modern' music world we have emphasized the talents on Hendrix, May, Clapton, Knopfler and others but never do we hear about Jerry Reed, Glen Campbell, Roy Clark to name a few... This is just my opinion but these guys were in a league of guitarists above and beyond any of the modern musicians..
its easy to judge someone who lives in the spotlight. Jerry grew up dirt floor poor and built a success in life. He was a little eccentric which i like. I wouldnt say he was a douche. Everyone loses their cool! I love. that line from S&B pt 2 when jerry wins the gear jammer race and is bein interviewed by a pretty journalist lady and when she goes to take his picture jerry says "You dont have to take my picture baby, ill come home and sit on your mantle". Classic! Lol he just says funny stuff like that.
MOST UNDER RATED GUITAR PLAYER EVER!!!! R.I.P SNOWMAN
Thanks for posting! What an amazing performance; cool to hear Reed improvising on it! One of my favorite tunes of Jerry's.
My God that olboy could give them hell to this day! MISS THESE GOOD OLBOYS
One of the greats of the guitar and sorely missed!!!
its hard to find guitarists this good in this day in age. Jerry's playing is brilliant
Thank you for bringing back some
Jerry Reed for us all!!!🌟
Who is checking out this Master Piece in 2020 during this Crisis?
Brilliant PERIOD!!!!
Son....
This is a Classic!
R.I.P. Jerry [ The Snowman ] Reed
What an amazing guitarist he was. Not many players even in the same league!
I never realized what a phenominal guitarist this man is!!!!
I agree Jerry was a phenomenal guitarist. Check out him and Chet Atkins playing Jerry's breakdown. The two albums he and Chet ( Me and Chet and Me and Jerry) recorded have now been re-released on one cd. They were awesome !!!!
I didn't know either until recently...and I grew up hearing his popular songs. One of the best players, I would say. Country, blues, jazz...
It's almost like Jerry Reed invented the guitar. Geez!! True guitar hero he was and always will be!
John Rainey Why does it make me think of banjo playing? Is that the same technique? And would that be called classical guitar playing???
@@mgordan6355Jerry's early style was based on Merle Travis' fingerpicking style. It was unique in that it heavily incorporated "banjo rolls" as part of the guitar playing approach! So yep, you picked up on that stylistic similarity which remained an influence on Jerry's playing his whole life. He was an amazing talent, but what I rarely hear people mention is, he was also known for practicing 10+ hours a day! Talent + hard work, he was an incredible player...
1977 yet the mainstream and certainly the youth only heard of him in 2013 due to GTA V.
What a great player this man was
Amazing guitarist and personality.