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Thanks For Giving A Damn

Episode 121: Jerry Reed Stories

Thanks For Giving A Damn

Otis Gibbs

Society & Culture, Arts, Music, Performing Arts, Personal Journals

5757 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2015

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

John Knowles shares stories about his friendship with Jerry Reed.

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0:00.0

I had a great time in Holland.

0:13.0

All the shows were really well attended and met so many nice folks who listened to this show.

0:19.0

Thank you guys so much for coming up and saying nice things to me.

0:22.5

But I flew home and I was in Nashville for just a couple days and hit the ground running.

0:28.1

I had to do a few things for my Pandora show, Country Built, which you can listen to at Pandora.com

0:34.5

slash Country Built. And I got to interview Ray Wiley Hubbard. It was so great to see Ray again

0:40.6

and hear his stories. He's got some great ones. Ray's always been one of the best storytellers out

0:46.8

there and it was just great to get to chat with him again. But I ended up having to fly out to

0:52.3

Los Angeles. It's the first time I've been to Los Angeles in maybe 10 years.

0:56.0

I had one day off and I was trying to figure out what will I do with my one day off in Los Angeles.

1:03.0

So I decided I would go visit some graves.

1:06.0

And I jumped in an Uber car and went out to a graveyard. It dropped me off. I walked around for about

1:13.9

three hours and I went to Bella Legosi's grave. I paid my respects to Sharon Tate. I saw

1:21.0

Ricardo Montalban's grave. I visited Rita Hayworths. I even visited Lawrence Welk's grave, and that was a big deal to me because as a kid,

1:30.1

I would watch Lawrence Welk religiously, and I remember he would come on just after He-Ha, and I still

1:37.0

watch Lawrence Welk reruns to this day. I really enjoy it. But I was out there for about three hours,

1:44.0

and about two and a half hours in, I was

1:45.8

really starting to feel the heat. It got up to a hundred degrees and I didn't realize it. So I'm

1:51.6

walking around just, you know, feeling really, really haggard. But I found a water hose that I started

1:58.4

drinking out of and got rehydrated and called a car and ended up going back to the hotel.

2:04.3

But the next day we went up to Topanga Canyon and we recorded a session with Ryan Bingham there at his home.

2:10.5

And it'll be played on my Pandora show, Country Belt.

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