Tut Taylor Archive Reel #062 'A. J. Jackson Show' Radio Broadcasts
Smyrna/Douglasville Area of Georgia Circa Mid-1960's
1/2/1965

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, 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 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.

1. Shuckin' the Corn
2. Maple Sugar
3. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
4. I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home
5. Mocking Banjo
6. Are You Missing Me
7. Bill Cheatum
8. Chain Gang
9. Shenandoah Breakdown
10. Swing Low Sweet Chariot
11. Lady of Spain
12. Shuckin' the Corn

13. Shuckin' the Corn
14. Black Ridge Ramble (Curtis Burch)
15. Instrumental (?) (Curtis Burch)
16. Cash on the Barrelhead (Robert Bruce)
17. We're Not Kids Any More (J. W. Dechereux & Daughter ?)
18. Roanoke (Dennis Burrell?)
19. Mocking Banjo (Ron Norman & Hughie Wylie)
20. Who Will Sing For Me (The Bluegrass Five)
21. The World is Waiting for the Sunrise (Ron Norman & Hughie Wylie)
22. Shuckin' the Corn

Show #1: Ron Norman, Hughie Wylie, Gene Jackson, & Kenneth Hood
Show #2: Curtis Burch, Ron Norman, Hughie Wylie, Walter Butler, & Others 

The box is labeled '1968 D.J. Ron Norman, Larry McNeely & Charlie Collins'.
The reel is labeled '1968 D.J., Ron N.'

Tut Taylor Archive Reel #062 Side B is purported, based on its labeling, to have been recorded at a 1968 DJ Convention in 
Nashville, TN.  However, the tape actually contains two 'A.J. Jackson Show' radio broadcasts recorded in the 
Smyrna/Douglasville area of Georgia circa mid-1960's.  The first show recorded features Tut's friends from the Bluegrass 
Five, Ron Norman (banjo) and Hughie Wylie (mandolin) along with Gene Jackson (guitar) and Kenneth Hood (bass).  Norman is 
clearly the star of the show with his hot banjo picking that finds a nice balance between Earl Scrugg's traditional approach 
and the jazzier style of Don Reno.  The second broadcast also features Norman and Wylie, along with future New Grass 
Revivalist-to-be, Curtis Burch, on Dobro, and famed Georgia bandleader and guitarist, Walter Butler.  Whereas the first 
show was completely recorded in the radio studio, a number of the tunes played during the second show were recorded 
elsewhere.  I had a hard time catching the names of some of the local artists featured.

--Mitchell Wittenberg