Tut Taylor Archive Reel #193 likely features bluegrass great, Ralph Lewis, and unknown others, playing a number 

of bluegrass classics.  Lewis was a Bill Monroe Blue Grass Boy during the mid-1970s.  While Side One of this 

reel is labeled "Jim & Jesse", they are not heard.  Side 2 of the reel is labeled "R. Lewis Master".  While it 

appears that in the tape to digital transfer, the stereo channels for tracks 3-11 on Side One were split in error 

and treated as distinct units, rather than kept together as part of a stereo mix, this is not the case.  The tracks

are found on opposite sides of the tape (see below for discussion of the equipment used); thus, the first nine tracks on 

Side Two are the same as tracks 3-11 on Side One (with a slightly different-sounding microphone placement).  Repeated

attempts to time align these tracks proved fruitless.  Tracks 10-16 on Side Two are commercially issued 

bluegrass/country recordings; Roy Acuff and the Smoky Mountain Boys (featuring Dobro maestro, Brother Oswald Kirby)

are found on tracks 13-16.



--Mitchell Wittenberg



	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, 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 by David Avery 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.



Side 1 of the reel is labeled 'Jim & Jesse'.

Side 2 of the reel is labeled 'R. Lewis Master'.



Tut Taylor Archive Reel #193



A) Ralph Lewis Bluegrass Jam Recordings

(With Tut Taylor on Dobro)

Unknown Location (Asheville, NC?)

Probably Circa Mid-Late 1960's

B) Commercial Bluegrass Recordings



Side One:

1. The Old Crossroad

2. Red Wing

3. Foggy Mountain Breakdown

4. Flint Hill Special 

5. Don't This Road Look Rough and Rocky

6. John Hardy

7. Home Sweet Home

8. Foggy Mountain Rock

9. Rawhide 

10. Put My Little Shoes Away

11. Blue Grass Stomp 



Side Two:

1. Foggy Mountain Breakdown (= Tr. 3 Side One)

2. Flint Hill Special (= Tr. 4 Side One)

3. Don't This Road Look Rough and Rocky (= Tr. 5 Side One)

4. John Hardy (= Tr. 6 Side One)

5. Home Sweet Home (= Tr. 7 Side One)

6. Foggy Mountain Rock (= Tr. 8 Side One)

7. Rawhide (= Tr. 9 Side One)

8. Put My Little Shoes Away (= Tr. 10 Side One)

9. Blue Grass Stomp (= Tr. 11 Side One)



Commercial Bluegrass Recordings:

10. Cumberland Gap (unknown artist)

11. I Wonder Where You Are Tonight (unknown artist)

12. Why Not Confess? (Jim & Jesse McReynolds)

13. Low and Lonely (Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys)

14. Night Train to Memphis (Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys)

15. Steel Guitar Blues (Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys)

16. Dobro Chimes (Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys)