Depending on your age and preferred era of country music, you might think of Jerry Reed as the Snowman from the Smokey and the Bandit films, the most random Scooby-Doo special guest or the football ...

The CMA awards are just around the corner. Some of the songs nominated this year are “Drunk Girl,” “Tequila,” “Drowns the Whiskey,” and “Drinkin’ Problem.” Think there’s a trend here? Anyway, to get ...

I just learned that country singer-songwriter and actor Jerry Reed has died. He might not be a familiar name to a lot of younger NPR listeners, but Jerry Reed was one of my childhood heroes, mostly ...

The singer, songwriter, actor, guitarist, and backwoods hipster Jerry Reed has died at age 71. Here's what I wrote about him back in 2005: Let me say this firmly, with no room for quibbles or dissent: ...