The tape is a 3.75 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 and L3.  The file was dithered down to a 16 bit/44.1kHz wave file.



The box is labeled 'Norman & Bill, OTPP, Country Gentlemen w/Mike Auld., Norman Blake & Bill Monroe, Old Time Picking Parlor, 70?'.

The reel is labeled 'Norman & Bill M. P.P.' and 'Country Gents P.P.'





Track 7 Side A2 is Bill Monroe, Doyle Lawson and Charlie Waller!!

tape 2 last track 16 is horrible, the rest is fantastic!!



SideA1 

Country Gentlemen

1. Fox on the Run

2. Make me up a Pallet on your floor

3. Dark as a Dungeon

4. Yesterday (instrumental)

5. Aunt Dinah's quilting party

6. Rebel Soldier

7. ?

8. Don Quixote

9. ?

10. I'll Break Out tonight

11. ?

12. Train 45

13. ?

intermission

14. Indian Creek - Norman Blake

15. ? Tut and Norman ?



SideA2



SideB1

Country Gentlemen

1. Of the Waterfall

2. Breaking it down

3. Little Joe

4. Hickory Hollow's Tramp

5. Pretty Polly

6. Little Bessie

7. House of the Rising Sun

8. Redwood Hill

9. These men of G-D

10. Black Mountain Rag ?



Bill Monroe

11. talking

12. ?

13. ?

14. ?

15. ?

16. ?

17. ?

18. ?



tapes starts to slow down on T18