Guitar Man Song

The guitar man lyrics.

Guitar man song. Jerry reed glen campbell performing one of my favorites the guitar man enjoy remember i don t have the rights just sorry i couldn t find it anywhere. According to peter guralnick in his two volume biography of presley the singer had been trying unsuccessfully to. The tune was recorded by elvis at least twice. Soon after reed s single appeared elvis presley recorded the song with reed playing the guitar part and it became a minor country and pop hit.

Guitar man is a 1967 song written by jerry reed who took his version of it to number 53 on the billboard country music charts in 1967. So i slept in the hobo jungles roamed a thousand miles of track till i found myself in mobile alabama at a club they call big jack s a little four piece band was jammin. Makin music on my guitar i got the same old story at them all night piers there ain t no room around here for a guitar man we don t need a guitar man son. The legend is that nobody could play the guitar part and elvis demanded that his entourage scour the country and bring jerry reed in to play guitar.

11 on the billboard hot 100 chart in the united states and their. Jerry reed hubbard 1937 2008 known professionally as jerry reed was an american country music singer country guitarist session musician songwriter and actor who appeared in over a dozen films reed was born on the 20th march 1937 in atlanta georgia the second child of robert and cynthia hubbard. Guitar man was a song penned by jerry reed and his first charted hit. This version is the result of a 1967 session at rca nashville.

Who draws the crowd and plays so loud baby it s the guitar man who s gonna steal the show you know baby it s the guitar man he can make you love he can make.