Having grown up in a midsized hick town with a CB in our family truck, country music on the radio, and The Dukes of Hazzard on TV, I find it amazing that I had not seen Smokey and the Bandit until this past Sunday.

I loved it.

But, what I loved even more, and am now obsessed with, is the theme song, “East Bound and Down” by Jerry Reed, who costars in the film as the Bandit’s sidekick, Snowman.

An extended version of “East Bound and Down” plays many times throughout the movie, and its catchy beat got in my head. Coincidentally, my sister had left a CD with that song on it at my house a week or so ago—mislabeled as Waylon Jennings—and right after the movie, I proceeded to listen to it repeatedly for at least a half hour. Then I listened to it some more later that night. And the next day. And I’ll listen to it more when I get home tonight. Sure, it’s got that ’70s-country sound, but it makes up for it with the requisite chase-scene banjo, a fast beat, some sweet guitar work, and trucker lingo throughout. It is the ultimate chase song—and the ultimate getting-shit-done song (you know, like housework). It might just tie with Iron Maiden’s “Hallowed Be Thy Name” as my favorite workout song.

I was lucky enough to find a video of the song on YouTube—featuring many awesome scenes from Smokey and the Bandit. (Unfortunately there’s no trace of Snowman running his big rig over those asshole bikers’ motorcycles. Give ’em hell, Snowman!) Enjoy.

So who exactly is this Jerry Reed fella? It turns out he’s a renowned guitarist with over 30 albums (he’s known in the country-music world as “The Guitar Man” and was highly praised by Chet Atkins, who produced some of Reed’s music); a prolific songwriter and former rockabilly (he wrote Gene Vincent’s “Crazy Legs”); a popular session player (Elvis often requested his presence in the studio); and an actor and frequent costar of Burt Reynolds. I don’t know if the rest of his music is good—the quality of country music from the late ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s is usually questionable—but here he is looking cool: