Jerry Reed
Jerry Reed
Jerry Reed Hubbard, known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country music singer, guitarist, and songwriter, as well as an actor who appeared in more than a dozen films. His signature songs included “Guitar Man,” “U.S. Male,” “A Thing Called Love,” “Alabama Wild Man,” “Amos Moses,” “When You're Hot, You're Hot”, “Ko-Ko Joe,” “Lord, Mr. Ford,” “East Bound and Down”, “The Bird,” and “She Got the Goldmine.”...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth20 March 1937
CityAtlanta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
Celebrities like John Wayne and Willie Nelson used to stay here, so we took that idea and ran with it. Our visitors really like staying in rooms with a unique ambience rather than the bland cookie-cutter chain hotel rooms we've all seen before. We replaced just about everything except the walls to give the rooms a whole new look and feel.
Young parents are working and busy raising their kids. Frankly, I'd like to see us focus more on the empty nesters and the baby boomers (in their 50s and early 60s).
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.
The Purple Cow had a barber shop. There's just a ton of history here. It's kind of reliving itself again.
Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.
Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.
When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.
I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.
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.
I went around the corner to motion pictures.
I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.
I mean, it's pretty hard to fight and hate and be angry when you're making music, isn't it?
When you're hot your hot, when you're not your not.
When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp.