Tut Taylor Archive Reel #168a

Tut Taylor + Unknown Others
"DJ Convention" Bluegrass Jams
Nashville, Tennessee
Circa mid-late 1960s


Side A:

1. Fiddle Tune (?)

2. Cripple Creek (?) ... (Talking)

3. You Don't Know My Mind

4. ... Stingaree (?)

5. There Stands the Glass

6. Caledonia

7. Instrumental (1)

8. Instrumental (2)

9. Buffalo Gals

10. Instrumental (?)

11. Instrumental (1)

12. Instrumental (2)

13. Foggy Mountain Rock (1)

14. Foggy Mountain Rock (2)

15. ... Foggy Mountain Top (x)

16. Wheel Hoss

17. Fire on the Mountain (1)

18. Fire on the Mountain (2)

19. (Noodling)

20. Motherless Children Have a Hard Time

21. Take This Hammer

22. (Unknown Song)

23. Instrumental (?)

24. Bluegrass Stomp

25. Soldier's Joy

26. Sally Ann ... Home Sweet Home

27. Instrumental (?)

28. San Antonio Rose

29. (Noodling on Lady of Spain)

30. Back Up & Push


Side B:

1. Fiddle Tune (?)

2. ...

3. Banks of the Ohio

4. ...

5. Fiddle Tune (?) (1)

6. Fiddle Tune (?) (2)

7. Fiddle Tune (?) (3)

8. Liberty

9. Fiddle Tune (?)

10. What About You (1)

11. What About You (2)

12. Teenage Waltz (?) (1)

13. Teenage Waltz (?) (2)

14. (Noodling)

15. Fiddle Tune (?)

16. Beautiful Dreamer ... (Tuning)

17. Home Sweet Home

18. Dobro Twist (1)

19. Dobro Twist (2)

20. Dobro Twist (3)

21. Dobro Twist (4)

22. Dobro Twist (5)

23. Picking Flat

24. Black Ridge Ramble

25. (Noodling)

26. Steel Guitar Rag

27. Fiddle Tune (?) ... (Tuning)

28. The Cuckoo (1)

29. The Cuckoo (2) ... (Noodling)

30. (Tuning) ... Bully of the Town (x)


The tape is a 7.5 inch per second mono recording. The acetate reel was played on a modified Revox A77 reel-to-reel machine with a Reutelhuber custom designed and built tape head preamplifier incorporating 2003 era technology and components including all metal film resistors, polypropylene coupling capacitors, and low ESR electrolytic supply bypass capacitors. The resulting analog signal was digitized by a Mytek Digital 8X96 analog to digital converter using Steinberg Nuendo as the recording software and saved as a 24 bit 48 kHz wave file.

Post processing and was done by David Avery with Nuendo using the following Waves Plugins: Q10, X-Hum, S1 Stereoimager and L2.
The file was dithered down to a 16-bit/44.1kHz wave file.


Box is labeled DJ Conv.

Tut Taylor Archive Reel #168a is labeled "DJ Convention", and it features Tut in bluegrass jams with unknown others. While undated, I suspect this recording was made in Nashville, Tennessee, circa mid-late 1960s.

--Mitchell Wittenberg