Jerry Reed - Much Loved Music Icon Dies at 71
Jerry Reed — Country guitarist, songwriter, singer and Smokey and the Bandit sidekick died Monday of emphysema at the age of 71. Best known to movie fans as the truck-driving, hound dog-loving Snowman from Smokey and the Bandit, Reed also penned his biggest hit for the movie, “East Bound and Down.”
The Atlanta-born Grammy winner, who never lost his Georgia drawl, backed Elvis Presley and Waylon Jennings on guitar before emerging on his own in the late ’60s.
Within a decade, he had a string of radio hits such as “When You’re Hot, You’re Hot” and “Amos Moses” and “East Bound and Down” from the Bandit” movies, in which he played trucker Cledus “Snowman” Snow.
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