Tut Taylor Archive Reel #34

Side A1 Tut Taylor with Ron Norman Circa 1967:
1. ...Bill Cheatum
2. Black Ridge Ramble
3. Nine Pound Hammer
4. Turnaround
5. Linda
6. Instrumental (?)
7. Ruff & Ready...Bugle Call Rag
8. Instrumental (?)
Live "Jamboree", Santa Monica, CA?-Unknown Band:
9. You Better Move On
10. All The Love We Shared Today
11. Miller's Cave
12. This Old House/When the Saint's Go Marching In
Live "Jamboree", Santa Monica, CA?- Bluegrass Five:
13. We Are The Bluegrass Five (Theme Song)
Different Session (Bluegrass Five?):
14. Bill Cheatum 
15. (Noodling)
16. (Banjo Picking/Noodling)
17. Cumberland Gap
18. Instrumental (?)
19. Get Up John (x)

Side A2:
1. (Comedy Sketch) (from "Jamboree") Ron Norman w/ Hughie Wylie (or Tut)?:
2. Reuben's Train
3. Cripple Creek
4. Lady of Spain
5. She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain (?)
6. Banjo Instrumental (?)
7. Banjo Instrumental (?) (1)
8. Banjo Instrumental (?) (2)
9. Dear Old Dixie
10. (Noodling)
11. Bill Cheatum
12. (Noodling)
13. (Noodling/Talking)
14. Cumberland Gap
15. Love and Wealth

Side B1 Bluegrass Five, Santa Monica, CA, 1967/68:
1. John Hardy
2. Heaven Light is Shining on Me
3. Monroe's Hornpipe
4. Used to Be
5. Lonesome Road Blues
6. Don't This Road Look Rough & Rocky...Watermelon Smiling on the Vine
7. It's Mighty Dark to Travel
8. Mathew:24
9. Rocky Top (intermission)
10. Amen (different group)
11. Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow
12. Foggy Mountain Breakdown
13. The Old Cane Press 
14. Bury Me Beneath the Willow

Side B2 Bluegrass Five, & Ron Norman on Banjo:
1. (x) Get Up John 
2. Pike County Breakdown
3. Foggy Mountain Special
4. Instrumental (?)
5. I'll Still Write Your Name in the Sand...Instrumental (?)
6. Old Joe Clark (?)
7. Sailor's Hornpipe
8. Lady of Spain
9. Instrumental (?)...Instrumental (?)
10. Buffalo Gals
11. Reuben's Train (1)
12. Reuben's Train (2)
13. Instrumental (?)
14. Instrumental (?)
15. (Tuning)
16. (Tuning/Noodling)
17. Bill Cheatum
18. Nola...
19. ...
20. ...Nola
21. Instrumental (?)
22. Instrumental (?)
23. (Noodling)
24. (Noodling)
25. Buffalo Gals
26. Bill Cheatum
27. Instrumental (?)
28. Salt Creek (1)
29. Salt Creek (2)
30. Bill Cheatum

Tut Taylor Archive Reel #34 features several different recordings that 
heavily feature the Bluegrass Five, a fine bluegrass band from north Georgia who
were some of Tut's close pickin' partners.  These recordings were made
circa-1967/1968; the Bluegrass Five at that time included J.N. & Onie Baxter
(guitars/vocals), Hughie Wylie (mandolin), Ron Norman (banjo), and Howard McGuire (bass).  
Side A of this tape is labeled "Tut with Ron", and features some great banjo 
from Ron Norman.  Side B is said to be recordings of the Bluegrass Five in
Santa Monica, CA in 1967/1968; while there is some live Bluegrass Five to be
found, side B also contains some hot solo banjo pickin', likely by Ron Norman.

--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 Stereoimager and L2.  The file was dithered
down to a 16 bit/44.1kHz wave file.