Tut Taylor Archive Reel #129
The Dixie Gentlemen
WBCF-AM
Florence, Alabama
August 9, 1966

Tracklist

1. Train 45 (Show Intro)
2. Stormy Horizons
3. Paddy on the Turnpike
4. Will You Wait
5. Border Ride
6. Swing Low Sweet Chariot
7. Swinging Doors
8. Train 45 (Show Outro)
9. Train 45 (Show Intro-likely from 9/19/66)

Source:

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 #129 contains an August 9, 1966 WBCF-AM radio broadcast from Florence, Alabama featuring The Dixie Gentlemen (Jake Landers-guitar, Rual Yarbrough-banjo, Herschel Sizemore-mandolin, Al Lester-fiddle, and Jesse Handley-bass). While this may have been recorded on August 9, 1966 (a Tuesday), it aired on an unknown Saturday morning. Although famed fiddler Vassar Clements performed and recorded with The Dixie Gentlemen, Al Lester filled the fiddle chair at this time.

--Mitchell Wittenberg

"This recording was originally made available by The Steam Powered Preservation Society, 501(c)(3), at www.thespps.org.

It is intended for personal and educational use only. All rights remain reserved by the artists."