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."
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SON !! YOU ARE SO MISSED. I KNOW HEAVEN HAS TO BE HAVING A BALL. IT HAS BEEN A YEAR AND THIS OLD BALL OF EARTH WE LIVE ON JUST ISNT QUITE THE SAME. WE MISS YA . TO LOTTY AND THE GIRLS . GOD BLESS !! TAKE CARE DANNY
Jerry- It's been a year. Hard to believe. Every time I'm flyin' down the highway and Eastbound and Down comes on...I grin and think of you. When I'm scanning the tv and see Smokey , or The Waterboy...I laugh and think of you. When I hear an old Waylon Jennings song on the XM Radio and Jack Clements tells the audience that guitar genius Jerry Reed played on that one...I think of you and Waylon and that you're probably having a ball singing and pickin'. I miss you, Jerry. The world seems a little empty without you. But on a hot Saturday afternoon, after mowing the grass, sometimes I sit down and drink an ice-tea or a cold beer. And I'll put one of your old albums on the turn table. And the magic is...it's like you're not gone. Thanks for the legacy you left. Blessings to your family always, Rich Snyder York,PA
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