One of my guitar heroes passed away this week. Jerry Reed died at age 71. To movie fans, he'll be remembered as Cledus Snow of the Smokey and the Bandit movies, but I remember him as the guy whose effortless looking guitar chops made me simultaneously want to practice the instrument and throw it into the fireplace. 

Check out these old clips of Jerry Reed looking like a guitar-picking Steve McQueen who wasn't trying to look cool.

-Jerry Reed and Chet Atkins Breakdown

-Wabash Cannonball

or good God, this...

How cool is that?