Tut Taylor Archive Reel #58
Tut Taylor with the Bluegrass Five & Jimmy Martin
Probably at the D.J. Convention in Nashville, Tennessee
1968

Side A:
Tut Taylor with The Bluegrass Five

1. Nine Pound Hammer
2. Going Back to Old Kentucky

Tut Taylor & The Bluegrass Five with Jimmy Martin

3. Ocean of Diamonds (1)
4. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
5. Lonesome Reuben
6. The Last Song
7. Sunny Side of the Mountain
8. Freeborn Man
9. Ocean of Diamonds (2)
10. Today I Started Lovin' You Again
11. What Made Milwaukee Famous

Side B:
Tut Taylor with The Bluegrass Five

1. (Unidentified Banjo Tune)
2. Blackberry Blossom
3. John Henry
4. (Unidentified Tune)
5. Shuckin' the Corn
6. Give Me Your Hand
7. Lonesome Reuben
8. Home Sweet Home ... You Are My Sunshine
9. Running Wild
10. Picking Flat
11. (Unidentified Instrumental)
12. Your Old Love Letters

The tape is a 7.5 inch per second stereo recording. The 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 48kHz WAV file.

Post processing was done with Nuendo using the following Waves Plugins: Q10, X-Hum and L3. The file was dithered down to a 16-bit/44.1kHz WAV file.

The box is labeled "Un. Gro. 66."

The reel is labeled "1968 D.J., Ron N."

On side A it sounds like Jimmy Martin on about half of the songs.

Side A and Side B have serious drag issues on the last couple of tracks. It makes them pretty much unlistenable. Most of the rest of this tape is very enjoyable.

Tut Taylor Archive Reel #58 features what may be a 1968 D.J. Convention, Nashville, Tennessee recording of Tut Taylor jamming with his friends, The Bluegrass Five (J.N. & Onie Baxter, Hughie Wylie, Ron Norman, and Howard McGuire), as well as all of them backing up the bluegrass great Jimmy Martin who runs through some of his classic hits. The tail ends of both sides of the tape are marred by some tape drag which makes these songs pretty unlistenable.

--Mitchell Wittenberg


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