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Tut Taylor Archive Cassette #35 features part two of a "January 8, 1972" jam session at "Roy Acuff's" (in Tut's
biography, "Flat Pickin' Dobro Man", he mentions that Roy Acuff owned a building next door to the Ryman Auditorium
in Nashville, TN, where people used to gather to jam before and after the Grand Ole Opry performances; I suspect
that this is where this jam took place). Tut is heard on Dobro and mandolin, with Charlie Collins on fiddle,
along with an unknown guitar player/vocalist (who is clearly smitten with the flatpicking style of Doc Watson).
My guess is that more tunes from this jam can be found on archive Cassette #40. However, the jam at Roy Acuff's
on C40 is labeled as having been recorded on December 8, 1972, making it unclear whether these recordings are
part of a whole, distinct from one another, or, if they did take place on the same day, occurred in early- or
late-1972.
--Mitchell Wittenberg
The casssete is a Concertape Radio Shack brand cassette with a sticker that
says "Jan. 8, 1972 at Roy Acuff's" on it. The cassette was played on a Nakamichi Deck 1
with azimuth adjusted. 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 with Nuendo using the following Waves
Plugins: Q10, X-Hum, LinEQ Lowband and L3. The file was dithered down to a
16 bit/44.1kHz wave file.
Tut Taylor Archive Cassette #35
"Jan. 8, 1972 at Roy Acuff's"
Tut Taylor, Charlie Collins, & Unknown Guitarist
Jam Session
Nashville, TN
1. (Talking)
2. June Apple (1)
3. June Apple (2)
4. (Talking)
5. Bill Cheatum
6. The Gold Rush
7. I Don't Love Nobody
8. Paddy on the Turnpike
9. Golden Slippers
10. Wheel Hoss
11. Instrumental (?)
12. Long Black Veil
13. Meet Me Somewhere in Your Dreams
14. Mary of the Wild Moor
15. I'm Changing the Words to My Love Song of You
16. (Talking)
17. Lost Indians (1)
18. Lost Indians (2)