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About Me

Jerry Reed Hubbard was the second child born to Robert Spencer Hubbard and Cynthia Hubbard, two Atlanta cotton mill workers who barely earned enough money to keep the family together. Jerry's birth on March 20,1937 strained an already troubled marriage, and four months later the couple separated. For the next seven years Jerry and his sister were shuttled between Georgia orphanages and foster homes. They finally returned home in 1944 when their mother married Hubert Howard, another mill worker.Music provided a welcome diversion for the family. "When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show," Reed told Bob Anderson in a 1979 'Pickin' interview. "I'd sit beside the radio and listen to the Grand Ole Opry and play rhythm on a hairbrush.Encouraged by her son's continuing passion for music, Cynthia Howard saved seven dollars to buy a secondhand guitar from a neighbor. Using a nickel as a flat pick, she taught the nine-year-old his first chords. "She taught me C and G, a clawhammer G, and I proceeded to drive her crazy," he told Anderson. "I'd sit on the trunk in the kitchen - I'd get up there 'cause I wanted to be on stage, you know. I always wanted to be an entertainer. And I don't have any other memories of ever wanting to be anything else."


My Blog

A Celebration of the music of Jerry Reed

We're having a night down at Douglas Corner on South 8th and Douglas on September 15th (next Monday)It's going to be billed as:A celebration of the music of the Late Jerry Reed.It'll start at 6:30pmIt...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:52:00 GMT

Jerry Reed PO BOX

  Please if you feel moved to do so send Jerry's wife Prissy and his family a card at the following address: P.O. Box 3586 Brentwood, TN 37024-3586  
Posted by on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:19:00 GMT

New CD

Hello America,This CD was produced to raise funds for our wounded veterans, who went in harms way willing to sacrifice their very lives for our freedom. A debt we can never repay.Your purchase of this...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:59:00 GMT

JERRY REED AT MURFREESBORO VAMC FOR CD RELEASE PARTY

JERRY REED AT MURFREESBORO VAMC FOR CD RELEASE PARTY Jerry Reed’s Salute to our Nation’s Heroes CD Release Party Friday, April 18, 2008, 12 noon ALVIN C YORK CAMPUS AUDITORIUM, Bldg 107...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:55:00 GMT

Veterans Award


Posted by on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:08:00 GMT

New Christmas Release!

Christmas at the Mall
Posted by on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:36:00 GMT

Charity event to collect donation for veterans hospital!

Charity event to collect donation for veterans' hospital Shippers Transport Co., 650 WSM and Jerry Reed are joining forces to help the Nashville Veteran Affairs Medical Center at the Wilson County Fai...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:11:00 GMT

From a taker to a giver...

Saturday, 06/09/07 Surgery turned Reed from a taker to a giver Veterans are high priority in new life of aiding othersBy TIM GHIANNIStaff Writer .... "I should have been dead more than once. I left Go...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 11:54:00 GMT

That's the wonderful part of my testimony...

>Well, I'll guarantee you, the days of my youth, I was raised in church, and I got away from it for many, many years. But you can't stay away from Jesus. Believe me, you just can't do it. Somewhere d...
Posted by on Wed, 16 May 2007 18:13:00 GMT

Wounded Warriors

I became acquainted with the Wounded Warrior Project a few years ago when I was on Carl P. Mayfield's radio show with a former Vietnam medic, he got me involved in the program and the more I do, ...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 11:43:00 GMT