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Tut Taylor Archive Reel #33 features Tut Taylor and Norman Blake (with Nancy Blake on cello on "Sweet Heaven" and
Curtis Burch, of New Grass Revival fame, on second Dobro on "Lonesome Dobro"), possibly recorded at Jay Gower's
home recording studio, Nashville, TN circa early-1970's. The sound on this reel is particularly nice! Note:
This rendition of track #2, "Train Wreck", is found on Tut and Norman's "Flat Pickin' in the Kitchen" CD.

--Mitchell Wittenberg


Tut Taylor Archive Reel #33
Tut Taylor, Norman Blake, Nancy Blake, & Curtis Burch
Jay Gower Home Recording Studio ??
Nashville, TN
Circa Early-1970's

1. Sweet Heaven (with Nancy Blake)
2. Train Wreck (New River Train/Lonesome Reuben)
3. Lonesome Dobro (with Curtis Burch)
4. Instrumental (?)
5. (x) (End of Tune Snippet)

The tape is a 15 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 and L3. The file was dithered down to a
16 bit/44.1kHz wave file.

The box is labeled "Tut-Curtis-Norman/Gower Studio." The reel is labeled "Tut&Curtis at Gower, 15 IPS."