Side note: Real or not, I loved Hee-Haw back then and I love the reruns today.
Posted on 04/23/2020 7:20:47 PM PDT by mdittmar
Jerry Reed Live on "Hee Haw" East Bound and Down
I was given the gift of not only meeting Jerry about the time this song was released, I sat at the table on his tour bus across from him just this close, watching him practice licks from his catalogue and show on an acoustic..........yep, what you saw was what you got.
You received an exceptional view into his world.
Serious pickin’ right there
That was Fun,
Thanks.
.
My Dad bought a
TransAM then and
Those were the days!
The Chinese got the elevator
And we get the shaft
He makes it look so easy!
Good times. Miss them!
Breaker breaker one nine..it was a fun time!
Oh, I had a back door pass to just about everyone at the ampitheatre when I was that age - Loretta Lynn, Marty Robbins, you name them. The funniest, sweetest, most down-to-earth country stars I ever met? Jim and Jon Hager. Not a pretentious bone in either’s body. And they’d revert to the grabasstic 13-year-old I was whenever I was in the room. They were as corny a pair of stuffed bib overalls in person as they were on TV. The genuine article.
MY childhood best friend was a cousin of Jerry Reed. I met him once.
Great guy
Big Hair,
Bell Bottoms and
A Fresh thrill
every weekend!
I’ll take the liberty of reposting my Christine Blasey Ford tribute to Jerry’s song from the eve of the Kavanaugh hearings:
Swamp Bound and Down (not by Jerry Reed)
Swamp bound and down, lawyered up and bluffin’
We’ll make ‘em do what we say must be done.
We’ve got a tall tale to tell and a short time to sell it,
I’m Swamp bound to watch old white men run.
Help from Fake News in Atlanta, Cooper, Lemon, then there’s Dana,
We’ll save this seat no matter what it takes.
Swamp bound and down, scared as hell of flying,
Go find some girls whose story is the same.
Agendas at stake, so no trick is too dirty,
I’m Swamp bound and lookin’ for some fame.
Yep! Add Gilley’s to the mix and a good time was had by ALL, every weekend!
You call that “live”? I love the song but that’s completely lip-synced, just like everything else was on “He-Haw”.
Me too!
One of those lyrics web sites says,
“About 45 minutes southeast of “Tippy Toe” Louisiana.”
Well,as I remember there was some other things faked on Hee Haw,that’s why I watched;)
True enough, but if you’re referring to what I think you are, back in those days, they were real enough for me.
Side note: Real or not, I loved Hee-Haw back then and I love the reruns today.
“Oh, I had a back door pass to just about everyone at the ampitheatre when I was that age - Loretta Lynn, Marty Robbins, you name them. The funniest, sweetest, most down-to-earth country stars I ever met? Jim and Jon Hager. Not a pretentious bone in either’s body. And they’d revert to the grabasstic 13-year-old I was whenever I was in the room. They were as corny a pair of stuffed bib overalls in person as they were on TV. The genuine article.”
I had a trio that backed Jim & Jon on some rodeo gigs (they were the “halftime” entertainment). They were great guys, although they were a bit more worldly than they would have let on to a 13 year-old :)
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