Tut Taylor Archive Cassette #43 contains three separate sets of recordings:  1) Tut demonstrating a variety of 

Dobro licks in various keys, 2) a jam session with an unknown Dobro player (who is quite accomplished in playing 

Hawaiian style), mandolinist (possibly Tut), & unknown guitarist that sounds like it was recorded at the Old 

Time Pickin' Parlor, Nashville, TN, and 3) a partial recording of the last Grand Ole Opry performance at the 

old Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN in March 1974 before the show moved to the Opry House at Opryland Park 

(accounts differ as to the date of the last Ryman show-some sources cite March 9, 1974, while others cite 

March 15, 1974; the first broadcast from the Opry House was on March 16, 1974) (this historical event was 

memorialized in John Hartford's "Tear Down the Grand Ole Opry").



--Mitchell Wittenberg



Side A: Tut Taylor Dobro Lesson/

 Jam Session, Old Time Pickin' Parlor, Nashville, TN (Circa-1974)

Side B: Last Grand Old Opry Radio Broadcast (partial program) 

Old Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN

March 9 or March 15, 1974



Transfer: Nakamichi Cassette Deck 1 to a Mytek 8x96 ADC 24bits/48khz



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Side A:

1-9. (Tut Taylor Dobro Lesson)

Tut Taylor Jam Session (Unknown Dobro Player):

10. (x) Instrumental (?)....Instrumental (?)

11. Why Not Confess?

12. Instrumental (?) (Hawaiian)

13. _______ March (?) (Hawaiian)

14. Kohala March (1)

15. Kohala March (2)

16. Kohala March (3)

17. Kohala March (4)

18. Instrumental (?) (Hawaiian)

19. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain

20. Wabash Cannonball

21. Hand Me Down My Walking Cane....(talking)



Side B: Grand Ole Opry Broadcast, March 9 or March 15, 1974

(last broadcast from the old Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN 

before the show moved to the Opry House at Opryland Park)

1. (Commercial)

2. (Introducing Charlie Louvin)

3. You're My Wife, She's My Woman (Louvin)

4. (Introducing the Willis Brothers)

5. Truck Stop (Willis Brothers)

6. (Commercial)

7. (Introducing Stu Phillips)

8. There Must Be Another Way to Say Goodbye (?) (Phillips)

9. (Commercial/Talking/Introducing Billy Walker)

10. You Gave Me a Mountain (x) (Walker)