What a legend he was. Thanks for the pings and the posts.
What a legend he was. Thanks for the pings and the posts.
You're quite welcome; I'm delighted that you liked it :-)
I was surprised to learn that 'Amos Moses' was included in the soundtrack to the Grand Theft Auto San Andreas videogame, but I'm glad that a new, younger audience is being exposed to his great music. Hopefully it will spur some of them to look into his other wonderful albums as well.
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He said a few other pretty sharp things, too.
Musician, actor Jerry Reed dies at 71
Mr. Reed enjoyed his comedic Hollywood roles (which included a part in the 1998 Adam Sandler film, The Waterboy), and he often smiled when movie fans would ask for an autograph without realizing that he was a singer and guitarist of significance. Music was most important to him, though. Asked by interviewer Frank Goodman which facet of music he preferred – songwriter, solo guitarist, session man or entertainer – Mr. Reed said, “Hey, that’s like trying to pick out your favorite leg.”
“There’s nothing on earth as powerful as music, period,” he told Goodman. “I mean, it’s pretty hard to fight and hate and be angry when you’re making music, isn’t it?”
As Mr. Reed’s health declined in recent years, he focused on spiritual studies and on bringing attention to veterans’ issues. “For 50 years, all I’d done was take, take, take,” he told The Tennessean’s Tim Ghianni in 2007. “I decided from now on it is going to be giving. And I’m way behind. We’re all way behind. We live this life like what’s down here is what it’s all about. We’re temporary, son, like a wisp of smoke.”
“I got to write hit songs,” he told interviewer Calvin Gilbert in 2005. “And I got to be on phonograph records… I’m a cotton mill boy, and I got to go to Hollywood. Can you imagine that? Why, yeah, my goodness gracious. Go figure.”
