The Severed Cortex

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Another guitar legend bites the dust. Jerry Reed often gets overlooked when people talk about guitar players but his picking style was unlike any other. Part country, part rock and roll, and 100% downright funky swamp pop. He took the Bakersfield sound to a level that Buck Owens and Bob Wills and Ferlin Husky never dreamed of. It wasn't easily copied either, which may be the reason why very few people outside the 70's country music folk never have heard of him. Either that or they wrote him off because of the Smokey and the Bandit movies. Personally, I say that qualifies you for an office in the executive branch of government. Now that Jerry is dead I'll have to hope for a Mel Tillis - Terry Bradshaw ticket. No one will say he was the greatest songwriter in the world though. Yeah he wrote some funny ones, and some of them are great stories, but I wouldn't call them spectacularly written songs.
Keep pickin' in heaven Jerry. Maybe more of them will pay attention to you there than they did down here.