JERRY REED
Dedicated to Jerry Reed Hubbard March 20, 1937 - September 1, 2008. Rest in peace Snowman!
Jerry greets the audience in Douglasville, Georgia, in the United States.
"The Devil Went Down To Georgia"
"She's Got The Goldmine"
"The Man With The Golden Thumb" featuring some wild guitar pickin'
Jerry plays Hank Garland's "Sugarfoot Rag"
"Amos Moses"
"When You’re Hot, You’re Hot"
"A Thing Called Love"
A fan presented Jerry with a cake that said "Welcome Snowman" and had a model Trans-Am car flying across the top! Jerry, of course, played the part of Cledus Snow in the film "Smokey and the Bandit" and had the 'handle' of The Snowman from The Bandit, Burt Reynolds. RIP Burt Reynolds: February 11, 1936 - September 6, 2018.
A smiling Jerry at the side of the stage.
Leaving the stage in Douglasville, Georgia - and I was more than happy to have access to the front of the auditorium and backstage.
An autograph for an officer from the Douglasville Police Department.
....and my concert ticket - still intact!
I do appreciate the quality of this photograph is not as good as the others on the main body of the page - but I still thought you might like to see a smiling Jerry Reed on stage.
A happy man - with my signed photograph.
The autograph says "Hang in there, Stan!" - and is proudly hanging in my office!
With Jerry on his luxury coach in Douglasville, Georgia - photograph by Frank Rogers.
Until 2011, I had never used this photograph on my website. It was very special to me but my friends said I should use it. I hope you enjoy seeing it as much as I did having it taken. It was in Room 11, The Motel, Douglasville, Georgia in September 1982.
Jerry Reed did visit England once. He appeared on a TV show with pop singer Lulu in 1970 and also, at the same time, made an appearance at London's Nashville Rooms with British guitarist Albert Lee.
Nothing to do with Jerry Reed directly but "Everything's okey-dokey in the Okefenokee" when I visited many years ago - with the Gators, too! Why not listen to Jerry singing "The Ballad of Gator McKlusky" on YouTube.
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Jerry Reed
In September, 1982 I had the pleasure to fulfil a dream when I got the chance to see one of my idols, Jerry Reed, in concert. I was on holiday in America when I received a call from Jerry's manager, Frank Rogers, to tell me that he had made arrangements for me to see the Jerry Reed show in Douglasville, Georgia.
I was in Panama City Beach, Florida, at the time and drove just over 250 miles to see the show. Some of the photographs from that memorable night are on this page. The quality of some of them, which were taken at the end of the concert, are not as good as the others but, as they were from the same session, I thought I would include them on this page:
Buddy Blackmon on five-string banjo to the right of Jerry.
Kerry Marx just in this shot.
The excellent band of musicians, that backed Jerry Reed at this concert, were known as the Thompson's Station Congregation. Guitarist Kerry Marx - he is the man with the beard and playing a Fender Stratocaster - provided me with the names of the rest of the band.
They are Ric McClure on drums, Duncan Mullins on bass, Bob Patin on keyboard, Mike Wyatt percussion, Buddy Blackmon on banjo and guitar and David Blackmon on fiddle and guitar. The band started in 1981 and Kerry joined in August of that year, Duncan the following January. Duncan, Mike and Kerry left early the next year and the remainder over the following seven years.
So how come the Thompson's Station Congregation name? Well, Jerry came up with it because at one time his management had offices at a place called Thompson's Station, in Williamson County, Tennessee, which made me go through my scrapbooks again to find a few photographs I took when I visited there in September, 1982. Click on the images to see larger versions.
Front View
The picturesque lake and grounds.
Another view of the lake and gardens.
Me in the office, wearing my Gator belt buckle.
Playing one of Jerry's Gibson guitars.
My hire car outside Jerry's Thompson's Station office.
A couple of Jerry Reed items I was fortunate to collect over the years:
A promotional sticker from RCA Records which was issued at the time that the movie "Smokey and the Bandit" was released.
This is a sew on patch I received from Jerry that advertised the album "When You're Hot, You're Hot." I did get several of these given to me but, over the years, gave them all away to dedicated Reed fans.
Jerry Reed's company also sold denim jeans back in 1981. They had his signature embroidered on the back pocket and a tear-off tag (above) which I kept. Sadly, the jeans wore out!
Jerry Reed originals - I do wish I still had them today!
A Christmas card from Jerry Reed Enterprises in 1982.
These labels were on packages which came to me from Jerry Reed Enterprises many years ago. For security reasons I have removed the addresses. The parcels contained the very latest Jerry Reed albums at the time.
Jerry even had his own personalised "When You're Hot You're Hot" matches back in those days.
This Gator belt buckle was a treasured gift to me from Jerry and is NOT for sale!
A publicity photograph showing Jerry wearing a "Gator" belt buckle. Photograph © RCA.
A proud owner of that "Gator" belt buckle taken in 1983. Photograph © Stan Moses.
Because of the interest in this page I've decided to include some photographs of Jerry taken outside his Music Row office in Nashville, Tennessee, in June 1974. Photographs by Shay Brogan.
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If you'd like to hear the radio station id's (jingles) that Jerry recorded for my BBC "Country Time" programme then click on the music notes above.
If you ever get the chance to visit Georgia, why not call into the Okefenokee Swamp Park.
A cutting from the Radio Times, sometime either late 70's or early 80's, showing Jerry as featured guest on my Saturday "Good Morning" programme.
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