The Night Jerry Reed Wrote a Country-Singing Bird: A Nashville Story
The spark: a bar tale, a cigar, a Gibson Around 1982, Jerry Reed found himself alone in his Nashville den, a half-smoked cigar and a Gibson nearby, turning a late-night bar yarn into a song idea. An ol’ boy had claimed a bird mimicked Johnny Cash, and Reed — always equal parts mischief and musical […]
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