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Bootie said:
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A bit of info on Jerry Reed in case you didn't know. Quite an award by Chet himself..
Atkins, who frequently produced Reed's music, remarked that he had to encourage Reed to put instrumental numbers on his own albums, as Reed always considered himself more of a songwriter than a player. Atkins, however, thought Reed was a better fingerstyle player than he himself was; Reed, according to Atkins, helped him work out the fingerpicking for one of Atkins's biggest hits, "Yakety Axe". Reed, one of only five people to have the title of Certified Guitar Player (an award bestowed only to those who have completely mastered guitar), was given this title by Chet Atkins.
 
Another titbit of info is that Elvis Presley covered his song Guitar Man and during recording his session guitarist couldnt get the way Reed played it... so Reed was called by Elvis' management to ask how he did it... he said the only way I can show you is for me to do it. He turned up and played it with Elvis...


Jerry Reed was also a movie star having been in Smokey and the Bandit, Waterboy and others....
 
The Velvet Fog, otherwise known as Matt Monro..........what a great voice he had, and here's a very well known track of his from a brilliant film..........


.......and another, Born Free...........my dad used to sing this to me, great memories of a very happy childhood.......


Steve
 
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