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JERRY REED CONTINUED...
• Was named CMA Instrumentalist of the Year twice (1970 and ’71), • He made the first of several appearances with friend Burt
and earned the nickname: “The Guitar Man” Reynolds in a string of movies that started with 1975’s “W.W.
and the Dixie Dancekings” and included the three wildly popular
• Atkins and Reed were nominated together for CMA Instrumental “Smokey and the Bandit” films, which launched in 1977 and
Group of the Year in the following two years (1972 and ’73) featured Reed as Reynolds’ straight man. Reed scored a hit with
the film’s theme song, “East Bound and Down”
• His recording “When You’re Hot, You’re Hot,” won a Grammy
Award (Reed would win two more for instrumental recordings • Reed made an unforgettable return to film in 1998 when he played
“Me & Jerry” and “Sneakin’ Around,” both made with Atkins), angry Coach Red Beaulieu in Adam Sandler’s “The Waterboy”
“Guitar Man,” “Amos Moses,” “Alabama Wild Man,” “U.S. Male,” “A
Thing Called Love,” and “She Got the Gold Mine (I Got the Shaft)” • He received his final CMA nomination, for Vocal Event of the
Year, for his “Old Dogs” supergroup collaboration with Waylon
• He got a career boost from Elvis Presley, who not only recorded a Jennings, Mel Tillis, and Bobby Bare
few of Reed’s songs, including “Guitar Man,” but also hired him to
be his guitar man in the studio as well • Reed passed away from complications related to emphysema in
2008 at the age of 71
• He became a regular presence on “The Glen Campbell Good Time
Hour” variety show in 1970

ALAN JACKSON

MODERN ERA ARTIST

• Born Alan Eugene Jackson on Oct. 17, 1958, in Newnan, Ga.
• The 58-year-old singer-songwriter came to personify the
neotraditional movement that emerged in opposition to the
“Urban Cowboy” trend of the 1980s

• Jackson began his career as the lead singer of local Newnan band
Dixie Steel, holding down numerous odd jobs while touring and
COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
writing songs
• The Jacksons packed up and moved to Nashville to follow his
dreams and Alan eventually signed with the worldwide star’s
publishing company

• Signed by executive Tim DuBois as the flagship artist at Arista
Nashville in 1989

• His first album, Here in the Real World yielded his first Billboard
No. 1 single, “I’d Love You All Over Again,” and made Jackson an
When music historians recount Alan Jackson’s staggering instant star
accomplishments, they don’t just limit the comparisons to his Country
Music contemporaries. With dozens of chart-topping singles, tens of • He was nominated for four awards at the 1990 CMA Awards and
millions of albums sold, and an unparalleled reputation as a singer and became the second most-nominated artist in CMA Awards history
songwriter, he ranks with The Beatles, Elvis Presley, and a very small with 81 nominations, following only close friend and fellow Hall of
handful of other transcendent artists who stand out like signposts in Fame member George Strait
pop music history.
• He still owns the record for most nominations in a single year with
By deeply tipping his hat to the honky-tonk legends of his youth 10, set in 2002, the year he swept Song and Single of the Year
and unflinchingly remaining true to himself for more than 25 years, with his poignant 9/11 tribute “Where Were You (When the World
Jackson earned an unparalleled reputation as a singer and songwriter. Stopped Turning)”
He blended the old and new in a musical style that is urban and rural,
rugged and raw, and appeals to the large sector of the Country Music • Jackson released four studio albums in the first five years of his
audience that looks to the past for its musical influences. recording career. Here in the Real World, Don’t Rock the Jukebox,

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