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Tut Taylor Archive Reel #11 captures a little slice of circa early-1970's Nashville, when a unique combination
of musical forces there were helping define "Newgrass"....a jam or recording session with John Hartford (banjo,
vocals), Norman Blake (guitar, vocals), Tut Taylor (Dobro, mandolin), Vassar Clements (fiddle), & Sam Bush (bass!).
While this might be considered an Aereo-Plain Band session, I tend to look at it more as a "typical" Nashville
recording/jam session that Tut had the wisdom and foresight to record so that we could enjoy it today. Sam Bush
was not a part of Hartford's Aereo-Plain band, nor are the tunes found here typically found on Aereo-Plain
recordings. The sound on this one is splendid, making this reel a particular pleasure. Note: a number of these
recordings (tracks 2, 4-7) were released by Tut on his "Flat Pickin' in the Kitchen" CD with Norman Blake.

--Mitchell Wittenberg


Tut Taylor Archive Reel #11
John Hartford, Norman Blake, Tut Taylor,
Vassar Clements, & Sam Bush
Jam/Recording Session
Nashville, TN ??
Circa Early-1970's

1. (Talking)
2. The Electric Telephone (Blake-vocal)
3. Pickin' Flat
4. Little Bessie (Blake-vocal)
5. Banks of the Ohio (Hartford-vocal)
6. Goodlettsville Express
7. Memories
8. Bad Blake Blues (x)
9. Bad Blake Blues

The tape is a 7.5 inch per second stereo recording on side A with side B being blank.
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, polypropelene 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 with Nuendo using the following Waves
Plugins: X-Hum, Q10, C1 comp-gate and L3. The file was dithered down to a
16 bit/44.1kHz wave file.