From Fame Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama to Nashville and Waylon Jennings’s Waylors to Christmas music with Lynette Dove, Jerry ‘Jigger’ Bridges has written, produced and played a broad spectrum of music genres over the decades.

On December 6, 2025, his bronze star in Muscle Shoals was unveiled. He was already an inductee of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame.

The album has been so resiliently popular each Christmas that Bridges and Dove produced a 20th anniversary edition that added two new Christmas songs.

One of their favorite, enduring Christmas songs is “Mary, Did You Know?” It has been covered by two dozen singers. It conveys a message that resonates with millions each year about this time.

Jigger is an Alabama native straight out of the Red Bay/Muscle Shoals school. In the early 70s he became part of the historic “Fame Gang,” playing bass on recordings by Tom Jones, The Osmonds, Mac Davis, and Paul Anka.

In 1978, Jigger moved to Nashville. After playing the bass line on the “Dukes of Hazard” Soundtrack and Waylon Jennings’ “The Greatest Hits” album, Jennings asked Bridges to join “The Waylors” on tour.

What was supposed to be a three-week gig, wound up being 23 years with Waylon as session musician, record producer, co-writer and touring.

In one capacity or the other, Bridges’ name appears on the credits of 20 gold and platinum certificates.

Waylon Jennings would be the first to tell you – “Without Jigger there would be no Waylor.”

Here is the official announcement of the unveiling of the Jerry Bridges bronze star:

Jim Zig Zeigler is a contributing writer for Yellowhammer News. His beat includes the positive and colorful about Alabama – her people, events, groups and prominent deaths. He is a former State Auditor and Public Service Commissioner. You can reach him at [email protected].