When You're Hot 1967-1983

Raven presents the most comprehensive single CD hits collection covering the outstanding career of JERRY REED. With superb quality audio, extensive liner notes and color booklet. Known throughout Country music as "the Guitar Man", the larger-than-life singer / songwriter and Grammy Award winner gained recognition not only for a successful solo career but also as an actor and ace session guitarist. One of Nashville's finest "pickers", Reed was also adept at writing hit songs. Elvis Presley successfully covered 'Guitar Man', 'U.S. Male' (with Reed on guitar) and 'Talk about the Good Times'. Featuring Reed's original RCA Victor recordings, When You're Hot 1967-1983 comprises 26 Top 40 Country hits (including three #1s, 'When You're Hot, You're Hot', 'Lord, Mr. Ford' and 'She Got the Goldmine') plus classic albums tracks (including his own renditions of his signature tunes 'Guitar Man' and 'U.S. Male') - 28 tracks in total. Other highlights include 'Tupelo Mississippi Flash' (his tribute to Elvis), 'Amos Moses' (his swamp rock special which became a Top 10 crossover Pop hit in 1970), 'East Bound and Down' (his #2 hit from the Smokey and the Bandit soundtrack in which he co-starred with Burt Reynolds) and 'The Bird' (his #2 novelty hit from 1982). Reed's music has presence and character, alternating between a frenetic country sound and more pop-flavoured countrypolitan material but always displaying a freewheeling, playful quality. He remained active right through the 1990s before succumbing to emphysema in 2008