REED, JERRY
(*1937)
REED, JERRY (b. J. R. Hubbard, Atlanta, Ga., March 20, 1937) Affable country songwriter/singer/guitarist Jerry Reed has had equal success as a session player, solo artist, and country-fried actor. Coming from a family of mill workers in Atlanta, Georgia, Reed took up the GUITAR as a youngster, and was a talented picker by the time he reached his teenage years. A friend of the family introduced him to publisher/producer Bill Lowery in 1955, when Jerry was just sixteen, and he was signed to a…