Jerry Reed & Paul Yandell-Chet Atkins & Merle Travis Medley

[TheHerbertvonaulhaus]

Geniuses !*

[TheMemphisSlim]

Excelllent

[FATALJDM951]

this is the most. from the past

[Alpha7xxx]

This makes me sad that Jerry Reed passed so recently and I am just discovering his large body of work.

[Atkinsfan]

This is great!!!!!!!!!!!!! Two of my favorites paying respect to two of the best there ever was.

Thanks for putting this great piece of history together for us.!!!!!

[snotnosejoe]

thumbpicks make happy guitarists



[GroovyGuitar02]

do i hear a SLIGHT gipsy influence in the beginning ? i do . Lots of swing anyway !

[synysterg]

Guy talking in the beggining sounds like danny G.

[tatacass1]

Ai que lindo!!!!!!!!!

Da saudade de alguma coisa que não sei o que é.

[pattykake19]

Jerry Reed and Chet were my very, very favorites. Love their music. Thanks for posting.

[Zodaddymusic]

great medley. i'm not sure i've heard this recording before, but good pictures with captions. only thing wrong is that Merle didn't write Cannonball Rag. It was written by Kennedy Jones on the railroad tracks in Cleaton KY and named for a popular train that came through called "The Cannonball".

[BreshDigitalTV]

This is SO GREAT!!

We all know how great Jerry was, but listen to Paul... He is also great ... Cool video and GREAT pickin'..... Wow..

[alberteau]

@BreshDigitalTV Paul on those Louvin Brothers recordings. Beautiful.



[Pepsthecat]

Nyomanmic! Can you tell us more about this Radio Live Recording? Was this all they played or is there more?

[fredxmertz]

Thanks for posting. i love to hear such awesome musicians paying tribute to the masters. They haven't forgot their roots!

[BlueMoonGuitar]

Awesome Tribute Vid!

[joshanator1]

caravan

[WalbertJr]

Thanks very much for putting this together. WOW!

[steveo27545]

Thanks

I had a lesson with Chet Atkins, it was a magical moment.

I ask him to show me the claw , them he ask me to play a song.

I sang and played peaceful easy feeling by the Eagles.

I had said before I started I could never play as well as you do, when

I finished the song , he said if I could sing like you, I would not even care if I could play.

The guitar was his voice .

Jerry Reed , Merle Travis and Mr guitar , they were born to play.

Grateful, humble happy men the live , laughed and played

[MartinGuitarLover1]

Outstanding video!!!

[MetallicBill]

Keep on Pickin and Grinnin'  Where's Haggard?

[JohnnyReb2009]

There is no one who can emulate the sound of Chet Atkins so accurate like Paul Yandell.

[MightyAlz]

1:02 - oh dear oh dear........

[cast390]

I could hear these tunes a million times and never tier of them, thanks for posting!

[eddard1956]

boy western kentucky is well reprensented in this video, paul, merle and mose rager. i used to watch fonzy davis show some also. seems like helen berkley used to sang in the show. western ky. is where thumb pickin originated. mainly mulenburg county..

[SunsetSix]

Shaky puddin'!

[gamewizard]

So many of the guitar players today don't have nearly the personality of Chet Atkins or Jerry Reed. They would tell stories or make jokes and always looked like they were having fun playing. There are very good guitar players today but they make it seem like work rather than fun.

[coleyman1]

@gamewizard That was Paul Yandell. He was probably as good, if not better, than Chet or Jerry with the guitar, but just did not have the personality nor the want to to become a public figure.  Yandell was almost too precise and just never seemed to be able to "loosen up" . Love this post. Great work...

[MetallicBill]

@gamewizard Eddie Van Halen said he Plays guitar, not Work Guitar, and that amuses me. They all make it look easy if you ask me. Fact is Ed struggled to make the guitar work for him, and admitted that.

[RawnchieRon]

Tyvm .....this was an hommage of those that had gone before ...they are not trying to ....better them but ..but saying tyvm ..to.those that have shapped who they have become ...,,,,,tyvm for video ..this is what country is meant to be ...

[bostonbruinsfever]

That was great. Even the scratches in the record sounded good.

[whitt702]

Nobody ever came up with the mellow tone of the Merle Travis guitar, ...well, except Joe Maphis. I saw Joe in Hawaii in 1961 and he could imitate every guitar there was, and do their sound too. I nearly .....my pants. Unbvelieveable. It was not just the tune, he had the tone, too.

[ballryan76]

Enough can't be said about Jerry but Paul was deadly with a guitar and a classy guy as well. Both geniuses.

Thanks guys.

[cettyboy]

Red Hot!

[BlShkspr]

Great stuff. One small correction. Merle DID NOT write Cannonball Rag. That was written by Kennedy Jones. Merle often said, just before playing Cannonball Rag, "This is one of the first tunes I learned".

[loveforsteelstrings]

thanks for posting!

[MacArsenault]

I think I am just begining to understand,

how great the Medley form of presentation really is.

Thanks for the wonderful post.

[whitt702]

Did anybody ever get more out of life than Jerry Reed? He was even in movies.

[yarnow]

Nope, he's the man.

[MetallicBill]

@whitt702 Jerry Reed crossed over, for every generation with Smokey and the Bandit, he always leaves a smile. God bless him. I never knew him before that seminal film

[BullpenBoss]

Paul Yandell was a very talented sideman for Jerry & Chet.

[coleyman1]

He was better than both of them. He just didn't have the personality "to take to the front of the stage." He had all the licks and more. Wached him when he was a young man on the "Fonzy Davis Show" on Saturday morning live from the court house in Mayfield, Kentucky. I just knew he had six fingers on each hand!!

[bigdood]

Who was it that played from the courthouse in Mayfield, KY? I live in Paducah... just curious, were you talking about Jerry Reed?

[coleyman1]

No.. I was talking about Paul Yandell. Fonzy Davis had a country music radio program that orginated from the court house court room on Saturday morning. Lots of local talent. Les Morgan, Macon Wilson, a harp player by the name of Bill Gardner, "Little" Bobby Pugh, Gary Pritchett, and a host of others every Saturday. Paul played in the house band and did solo fill-ins as an individual act. I even sang a few old Hank Williams songs myself from time to time.

[KarloR27]

Thats windy and warm

[bossaman58]

Jerry is really saying "Chester.....time fer you to jum own downnn 'ol buddy........do it!!!" Great tribute.

[fridrikur]

Glad I listened to this medley. Great captions too. Especially that one with Jerry looking at Chet thinking 'show me that lick chife'

[jimirsaysbuddy]

I think that even though Jerry was a great picker in his own right, he was always in awe of Chet and he always showed him the respeact that he deserved. That's class.

[fridrikur]

Aren't we all ;)

[coleyman1]

I hung around Nashville long enough to know that there were lots of pickers that were as good as or better than Chet or Jerry. Paul Yandell being one of them. Most pickers just wanted to be pickers, not entertainers. Reed and Atkins had that "entertainer" in them and brought their speciality, which was the guitar, to the front with them.. Love to hear them play.

[toddgakk]

Those guys you are talking about can't touch Chet or Jerry. Anybody can learn to wiggle their fingers. Jerry and Chet were very special song writers and entertainers. Both could give A+ performances under any conditions or circumstances, and both were class acts.

[coleyman1]

I don't know who your are talking about when you say "those guys", but there were and are several guitar players in Nashville and L.A. that are/were better than Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed. What Atkins and Reed had was something more than a great ability to play the guitar. They had a style of picking and a personality to match. They had "star quality". I spend many years in Nashville and watched a lot of pickers come through there but there were only a few as complete as Reed and Atkins.

[ih8thishit]

as good as Chet, yes. As good as Jerry? no. Not no but hell no. I've heard a overloaded poultry truck's worth of Chet-clones. But I've never heard anyone do Reed as well as or better. Jerry was a phenom, like Stevie Ray Vaughan. There wont be another. You can play their licks but you cant make it sound or feel like they did, and you cant do it better. Brent Mason, Fred Newell, Scotty Anderson, Tommy Emmanuel etc, the list goes on and on - and they would all agree, there wont be another Jerry.

[coleyman1]

I think you are now talking "style" instead of ability. There will never be another Jerry Reed, because Reed had a style that was all his own. Chet was a great picker, but if you couldn't see him picking, you wouldn't know who it was.Not true with Reed! You know it's him just by listening to the licks.That is style not ability.There are pickers, some you mentioned above, that have a more complete understanding and imagination that Reed didn't have. They just don't have a "style". Love Reed!

[BleepYouTwo]

All the great pickers had their own sound that can be easily heard depending on how much you listen to them... Chet was amazing and smooth and a Country Gentlemen could not be handled as well by any other, probably the best that ever lived in my opinion (aside from Tommy E. of course) Merle brought the style to life and he picked with one finger which is evident in his tunes, and ol' jerry never plays it the same way twice..Good rendition of Windy 'n' Warm though.

[ih8thishit]

Good points except - who can you possibly say had more imagination than Reed?!? From instrumentals to lyrics, the guy was somewhere between Beethoven and Mark Twain. As far as ability, Jerry had it in spades... what he's doing in this clip is NOTHING compared to what he was capable of. Check out the recorded version of Lightning Rod. Hell, check out his rhythm licks to High Ballin, that's about as simple as he got and it's still a trick lick. The guy was a god among men.

[caddyshack9]

How can they be as good or better than the pioneers? They don't get any better than Chet and Jerry. Paul is good but better? I think not.

[bigdood]

You are very right, nobody can be as good as those who pioneer music styles... but some can re-invent what was already invented, taking the combined styles of several pioneers -- a great case-in-point is Tommy Emmanuel, who unashamedly tells everyone that he has "stolen from everyone" to come up with his own absolutely untouchable style. :-) There are others who today are adding to TE's music (check out Adam Rafferty, who adds be-bop and beat-boxing to fingerstyle) and making their OWN styles!

[coleyman1]

I really don't know what you folks are talking about! You talk about Reed and Chet being pioneers and I am not sure what you mean.Lot's of folks around could pick better than Jerry Reed but they did'nt have nor will they ever have the style and recognition.A lot of that admiration for Reed comes from folks who liked to see him and watch him perform on stage and film.He is a natural at the acting gig, but his game was the guitar and how he could play.Style! Style!The two of them had style.