Jerry Reed in the Southern Quote
Shortly after he was born in Atlanta Georgia in 1937, his parents separated. Jerry and his sister would spend the next seven years in foster homes and orphanages before his mother remarried. Together with her new husband, Jerry's mom reclaimed her kids. The unit was shaky, each nursing wounds that would take time to heal. To ease everyone's stress, little Jerry picked up a guitar
The Problem with Snake Handling
Hello folks, let’s chat… My late Papaw was a Baptist preacher who loved a good prank and everybody around him was fair game. Everyone. He once pulled a good one on a fellow preacher named Jerry Reed. Brother Jerry Reed was considerably younger than Papaw but they were great friends. In the early days of Brother Jerry’s ministry, Papaw let Brother Jerry get his feet wet by