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Tut Taylor Archive Reel #69 features a portion of a circa mid-1970's Dobro course taught by Tut, with accompaniment
from guitarist extraordinaire, Norman Blake. They perform a number of duets together; while Tut and Norman released
several of these tunes, the versions found here are unique to this tape. Too brief, but quite enjoyable!
--Mitchell Wittenberg
The tape is a 15 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, LinEQ Lowband, S1 Shuffler and L3. The file was dithered down to a
16 bit/44.1kHz wave file.
The box is labeled 'Check 15 IPS'. The reel is labeled 'Me & Norm'.
Tut Taylor Archive Reel #69
Tut Taylor with Norman Blake
Dobro Course
Circa Mid-1970's
1. ("Add some rhythm guitar with your Dobro playing")
2. Down the Road...("Twinning")
3. Weave and Way (Dobro & guitar)
4. Weave and Way (Guitar solo & then Dobro comes in)
5. Weave and Way (Rhythm guitar only)
6. Black Ridge Ramble
7. The Old Post Office
8. (Signing off) (some tape warble)