My dig through old negatives and spotlighting musical performers continues.

Here is country music and film star Jerry Reed in his appearance at the Masonic Home for Children’s annual St. John’s Day celebration June 20, 1992. Reed was a star guitar player and well known for his hits “Amos Moses,” “When You’re Hot, You’re Hot” (won him a Grammy in1972), and “East Bound and Down” (the theme from Smokey and the Bandit). Chet Atkins called Reed a better fingerstyle guitarist than himself, quite a compliment.

Reed did many films and was especially loved in his rolls in the Smokey and the Bandit movies in which he was featured as a truck driver with a basset hound co-pilot.

His appearance at Oxford was especially poignant as he spoke of the years he had spent in an orphanage as a child. See him here.