Jerry Reed, 71, a Grammy Award-winning country guitarist, singer and songwriter who played a mischievous, good old boy sidekick to Burt Reynolds in "Smokey and the Bandit" and other movies, died Sept.

"I'm doing pretty well for an old lady," joked 80-year-old Las Vegas resident Deena Kaye Rose while speaking with The Tennessean early on a Monday morning in March. For the past five decades, Rose has ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer and actor Jerry Reed, known as "The Guitar Man" of country music, has died at the age of 71, ending a career that took him from writing hit songs like "When You're Hot, ...