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Tut Taylor Archive Reel #61 contains two sets of recordings. Side A features Tut's
longtime friends, The Bluegrass Five; about half the songs are bluegrass standards,
while the other half consists of a guitarist (J.N. Baxter?) singing gospel and Jimmy
Rodgers-inspired tunes. Side B contains an Osborne Brothers concert recorded in Atlanta,
GA in May 1965. Interestingly, Sonny and Bobby Osborne (on banjo and mandolin,
respectively) perform as a trio, accompanied only by Gordon Cash on acoustic guitar
and vocals.
--Mitchell Wittenberg
Tut Taylor Archive Reel #61
Side A: The Bluegrass Five, Circa-1965
Side B: The Osborne Brothers, Atlanta GA, May 1965
Side A-The Bluegrass Five (w/ Tut Taylor):
1. Take This Hammer
2. Red Wing
3. Blue Grass Stomp
4. Roanoke
5. Instrumental (?)...I Don't Love Nobody
6. Instrumental (?)
7. Bully of the Town
8. Instrumental (?)
9. Bury Me Beneath the Willow
10. The Cuckoo
11. Alabama Jubilee
12. Back Up & Push
13. Sweet Picking Time in Toomsboro, GA
14. (x) Instrumental (?)
15. (Mandolin Noodling)
16. Instrumental (?)
17. Grave in the Valley
18. Unknown Song (?)
19. Rocky Road Blues
20. Waiting for a Train
21. Brakeman's Blues (Blue Yodel #5)
22. He's in the Jailhouse Now...Pickin' And A-Grinnin'
23. Mama Don't Allow (No Low Down Hangin' Around) (instrumental)
24. Mama Don't Allow (No Low Down Hangin' Around) (w/ vocal)
25. Buffalo Gals
26. A Beautiful Life
Side B-Osborne Brothers, Atlanta, GA, May 1965
1. (Introduction)...Cumberland Gap
2. (Band Intros)
3. Hey Hey Bartender
4. This Heart of Mine (Can Never Say Goodbye)
5. Fair and Tender Ladies
6. Bugle Call Rag
7. (Talking)
8. Take This Hammer
9. Me and My Old Banjo
10. (Talking)
11. Muleskinner Blues
12. (Talking)
13. I Still Miss Someone
14. (Ruby, Are You Mad? Introduction)
15. Ruby, Are You Mad?
The tape is a 7.5 inch per second mono recording on side 1, stereo on side 2.
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: Q10, X-Hum, S1 Shuffler and L3. The file was dithered down to a
16 bit/44.1kHz wave file.
The box is labeled 'BG5 (Old)'.
The reel is labeled 'Bgrass 5 (Old)'.