Tut Taylor Archive Reel #67 is labeled "John Hartford & Friends", and features the Aereo-Plain Band circa 

1971-72: John Hartford, Norman Blake, Vassar Clements, and Tut Taylor.  The first portion of the tape captures 

a discussion about Vassar's fiddle, while the last three tracks find the band performing Tut's "Pickin' Flat" 

and Bill Monroe's "Can't You Hear Me Calling".



--Mitchell Wittenberg





Tut Taylor Archive Reel #67



"John Hartford & Friends" (Aereo-Plain Band):

John Hartford, Norman Blake, 

Vassar Clements, & Tut Taylor

Unknown Location

Circa 1971-72



1. (Talking)...

2. ...(Fiddle Noodling)...

3. ...(Fiddle Noodling/Talking)...

4. (Fiddle Noodling/Talking)

5. (Tuning)...

6. Pickin' Flat (1)

7. Pickin' Flat (2)

8. Can't You Hear Me Calling





	The tape is a 7.5 inch per second stereo 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, LinEQ Lowband and L3.  The file was dithered down to a 

16 bit/44.1kHz wave file.



The box is labeled:



John Hartford & Friends



1. Up On The Hill

2. Steamboat Whistle Blues

3. Symphony Hall Rag

4. Blowing It On Down

5. Tear Down The Opry

6. Leather Britches

7. Holdin

8. Boogie

9. The Strange Old Man

10. Because Of You