Jerry Reed
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"Jerry Reed Hubbard", known professionally as "Jerry Reed," was an American country music singer, guitarist, and songwriter, as well as an actor who appeared in more than a dozen films. His signature songs included "Guitar Man (Jerry Reed song)/Guitar Man," "U.S. Male", "A Thing Called Love (song)/A Thing Called Love," "Alabama Wild Man," "Amos Moses", "When You're Hot, You're Hot" (which garnered a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance), "Ko-Ko Joe", "Lord, Mr. Ford", "East Bound and Down" (the theme song for the 1977 blockbuster Smokey and the Bandit, in which Reed co-starred), "The Bird (Jerry Reed song)/The Bird," and "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)".

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She Got the Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

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Times like this, even though tragic and devastating, bond us together as neighbors.

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Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.

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The Purple Cow had a barber shop. There's just a ton of history here. It's kind of reliving itself again.

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Merchants and restaurants can't serve all of the people properly. If you have a quart jar and give me a gallon of juice, I'm going to sell a quart...you cannot give proper service when inundated with too many people at once.

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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.

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He's able to talk to anybody, whether it's a grass roots advocate, a member of Congress or of the (Bush) administration, ... And he not only talks but he acts.

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Our ultimate objective is to find artisans who create something that people will want to leave San Antonio to come see.

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Celebrities like John Wayne and Willie Nelson used to stay here, so we took that idea and ran with it. Our visitors really like staying in rooms with a unique ambience rather than the bland cookie-cutter chain hotel rooms we've all seen before. We replaced just about everything except the walls to give the rooms a whole new look and feel.

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