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Tut Taylor Archive Reel #27 starts off with Jim Eanes' 1967 Zap Records LP
"Your Old Standby" (Zap MLP-102). This recording also seems to have been
issued on the Rebel and Original Country record labels at one point or another,
although it is currently out-of-print. The Dobro is featured on a number of
tunes, and it is unclear to me whether or not this is Tut; I've been unable to find out a whole
lot about this LP. The Osborne Brothers 1967 smash bluegrass single "Rocky Top" b/w "My Favorite
Memory" follows. Most of the remainder of the tape features a Tut Taylor rehearsal session with,
perhaps, the Dixie Gentlemen (Herschel Sizemore & Rual Yarbrough, and perhaps Jake Landers,
although Vassar Clements is not present); Tut and his playing partners are pretty much working out
one tune that bears some similarity to "Pickin' Flat", although it contains a slightly different
riff. These recordings are interrupted by several bluegrass tunes by an unknown band, yet another
bluegrass band that sounds like they were influenced heavily by Bill Monroe, and another Tut tune,
"Ruff & Ready". As usual, a pretty eclectic mix!

--Mitchell Wittenberg

Tut Taylor Archive Reel #27 (audio not released as this is a commercial recording.)
Jim Eanes: "Your Old Standby" (Zap Records MLP-102) (1967):
Your Old Standby, Lady of Spain, Precious Memories, No One to Love Me Now, Nobody's Darling, Donna Lynn, It's a Weary, Weary
World Without My Blue Eyes, Foggy Mountain Special, Somebody Touched Me, Jimmy Brown, the Newsboy
Osborne Brothers (1967): Rocky Top, My Favorite Memory

Tut Taylor Rehearsal (with the Dixie Gentlemen?)(Circa-1967):
13. Instrumental? (Rehearsal)(Take 1)
14. Instrumental? (Take 2)
15. Instrumental? (Take 3)
16. Long Black Veil
17. Instrumental? (Take 4)
18. Instrumental? (Unknown bluegrass band)
19. Instrumental? (Brief part of song; unknown bluegrass band as on #18)
20. Instrumental? (Take 5)
21. Instrumental? (Take 6)
22. (Unknown over-recording...)
23. Little Maggie (Unknown bluegrass band)
24. Ruff & Ready (Tut et. al.)
25. Bluegrass Breakdown (x) (Unknown bluegrass band as on #23))

The tape is a 3.75 inch per second mono 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 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.

Side B is blank