Tut Taylor Archive Reel #038
Side A: Bill Monroe & Tut Taylor Picking Session DJ Convention (?) Nashville, TN Circa 1965-1966
Side B: Dixie Gentlemen with Tut Taylor Rehearsal, Unknown Location Circa 1965-1966

Side A:  Bill Monroe & Tut Taylor

1. Evening Prayer Blues
2. Arkansas Traveler
3. Ghost Picker
4. Little Green Pill
5. You'll Find Her Name Written There
6. Stony Point (1)
7. Stony Point (2)
8. The Dusty Miller
9. Monroe's Hornpipe
10. Pike County Breakdown

Side B:  Dixie Gentlemen & Tut Taylor

1. (x) Making Plans>(Talking)
2. Little Green Pill
3. Shuckin' the Corn
4. Pine Lake Picking (1)
5. Pine Lake Picking (2)
6. Black Ridge Ramble
7. Cripple Creek>(Talking)
8. (Mandolin Noodling)>Instrumental (?)>Farewell Blues

Notes
The tape is a 7.5 inch per second mono recording.  The mylar 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.

Historical Commentary:

Attention mandolin fans!!!  Tut Taylor Archive Reel #038 Side A is a wonderful recording featuring the Father of Bluegrass, 
Bill Monroe, picking instrumentals one very early morning circa 1965-1966 with Tut and several unknown others.  I suspect 
that this was recorded in a hotel room by Tut during a DJ Convention in Nashville, TN.  Monroe never does get the hang of 
Tut's mysterious piece, 'Ghost Picker'!  Side B of the reel is a Dixie Gentlemen (Herschel Sizemore-mandolin, Rual 
Yarbrough-banjo, & Jake Landers-guitar) with Tut (Dobro) rehearsal recorded circa 1965-1965, prior to recording their 'Blues 
and Bluegrass' LP in 1966; they run through several tunes found on this release.   

--Mitchell Wittenberg