In March 1981, this updated version of “Guitar Man” spent one week atop the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, marking the final-number one country hit of Presley’s career.

On June 21, 1971, Jerry Reed's biggest hit began a five-week run at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart, cementing its place as one of the defining country songs of the year. But the ...

Jerry Reed, 71, a Grammy Award-winning country guitarist, singer and songwriter who played a mischievous, good old boy sidekick to Burt Reynolds in "Smokey and the Bandit" and other movies, died Sept.

You may know him best as the Burt Reynolds co-star and wisecracking bootlegger Cledus “Snowman” Snow from the beloved 1977 action-comedy Smokey and the Bandit. But Jerry Reed—born on this day (March ...

Jerry Reed, a singer who became a good ol' boy actor in car-chase movies such as "Smokey and the Bandit," has died of complications from emphysema at ...