Burt Reynolds gone at 82

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 6 Sep 2018 1:23 pm

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ ... -82-831093

Jeff Harbour · Post by **Jeff Harbour** » 6 Sep 2018 4:02 pm

Before the 'Gone Home police' chime in, I would say that ANY friend of Jerry Reed Hubbard's is by all means a "friend of steel guitarists".

(I would almost even nominate Jerry Reed to the Steel Guitar Hall Of Fame for featuring a then-little-known Paul Franklin so heavily in his tune 'Nervous Breakdown'!)

David Graves · Post by **David Graves** » 7 Sep 2018 1:41 am

I agree

%. The Bandit & The Snowman .. Together Again.

Skip Edwards · Post by **Skip Edwards** » 7 Sep 2018 7:27 am

Small known fact... there's a scene in "W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings" that was shot in the old Sho-Bud store on lower Broadway.
R.I.P, BR...

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 7 Sep 2018 7:48 am

I recently saw his last film "The Last Movie Star" on one of the streaming channels. Very nice little movie, with Burt basically playing himself as an old actor who is being honored at a film festival for a lifetime achievement award. Nice moving film and a real chance for Burt to sum up his life.

gary pierce · Post by **gary pierce** » 7 Sep 2018 10:42 am

Deliverance was one of my favorites, and sparked a banjo revolution.

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 7 Sep 2018 10:55 am

"sparked a banjo revolution"

Don't speak ill of the dead.

Craig Stock · Post by **Craig Stock** » 7 Sep 2018 3:59 pm

Skip, thanks for the w.w. and the dixie dance kings, I bought that on DVD years ago, great time piece, with Don Williams. My copy was not real hi-fidelity, but such a great movie, I watch it once a year. Will look for the sho-bud store scene.

R.I.P. Burt, loved al, his stuff as well as his bud Dom Deloiuse, got to spend 3 hrs. with Dom at his house in Vermont about 20 years ago with my wife. He was the real deal, just as funny in real life as he was on screen, and from what I hear, Burt was the same.

My wife was watching 'the king of queens' the night before he passed and he was guesting on it, very sad, but a life well lived.

Steve Allison · Post by **Steve Allison** » 7 Sep 2018 6:57 pm

Festus and that old "co-mmann-chee will be "raslin" again!

Godfrey Arthur · Post by **Godfrey Arthur** » 7 Sep 2018 10:56 pm

Godspeed Burt.

Most loved you on screen.