The Dixie Gentlemen
"I. E. H. Dixie Jamboree" Radio Broadcast
Northern Alabama or Southern Tennessee
April 2, 1962

1. (Show Intro)
2. I Thought I Heard You Calling My Name
3. Wicked Path of Sin
4. Cincinnati Rag
5. Pardon Me
6. (Show Outro)

Source: Radio

The tape is a 7.5 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, polypropylene 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 48kHz WAV file.  

Post processing was done with Nuendo using Waves Plugins. Sample Rate Conversion was performed using R8Brain. The file was dithered down to a 16-bit/44.1kHz WAV file using Izotope Ozone 3.

Tut Taylor Archive Reel #121 features Tut Taylor's friends, The Dixie Gentlemen, performing for an April 2, 1962 for the "I. E. H. Dixie Jamboree" radio broadcast. While the exact broadcasting station is unknown, it was likely located in northern Alabama or southern Tennessee. The Dixie Gentlemen formed in 1956 and were based in Alabama; band members at the time of this broadcast were famed fiddler Vassar Clements, Herschel Sizemore-mandolin, Rual Yarbrough-banjo, Jake Landers-guitar, and T. R. Campbell on vocals and in all likelihood, bass.

--Mitchell Wittenberg