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Tut Taylor Archive Reel #14 poses a bit of a mystery. While this tape clearly presents Vassar Clements on fiddle,
his backing musicians and the circumstances of this recording are unknown. Some people feel this could be outtakes
from John Hartford's "Aereo-Plain" recordings, but Hartford is nowhere to be heard, the mandolin player sounds
somewhat reminiscent of David Grisman, and an electric mandolin is heard on several cuts, all of which suggest
something different. Most of these tunes are also found on Archive Reel #47 and Archive Cassette #107; the
additional songs and instruments heard on these recordings suggest a potential Earl Scruggs Review session.
Let's just call this a Vassar Clements recording session and enjoy Clements' genius one more time.

--Mitchell Wittenberg

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, 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, Rverb, S1 Imager and L3. The file was dithered down to a
16 bit/44.1kHz wave file.

Tut Taylor Archive Reel #14
Vassar Clements Recording Session
Unknown Date, Location, or Backing Musicians
Circa Early-Mid 1970's

1. Lonesome Fiddle Blues (1)
2. Lonesome Fiddle Blues (2)
3. Lonesome Fiddle Blues (3)
4. Kissimmee Kid
5. House of the Rising Sun (?)
6. (False Start)...I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome
7. Instrumental (?)