03 Sep
East Bound and Down
Damn, yesterday was like the saddest day since Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes passing. First Don LaFontain, and then the great Jerry Reed.
from the LA Times:
Jerry Reed, whose roles in three “Smokey and the Bandit” Southern comedy films opposite Burt Reynolds often overshadowed his gifts as a prolific country singer-songwriter and virtuoso guitarist, died Monday at his home outside Nashville of complications from emphysema. He was 71.
September 30th, 2009 at 7:08 am