Tut Taylor Archive Reel #128
The Dixie Gentlemen
Florence, Alabama (?)
September 5, 1966

Tracklist

1. Paddy on the Turnpike
2. San Antonio Rose
3. Border Ride
4. Bill Cheatham
5. Orange Blossom Special
6. Come All Ye Fair & Tender Ladies (x)
7. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (x)
8. The World is Waiting For the Sunrise
9. Stormy Horizons
10. Dixie Ride
11. Herschel's Tune
12. The Story of My Life (X)

1. Almost Persuaded
2. Worried Man Blues
3. Brown County Breakdown
4. Me & My Fiddle
5. Bud's Bounce
6. Shenandoah Breakdown
7. Charmaine (1)
8. Charmaine (2)
9. Panhandle Country
10. I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling
11. How I Love the Blessed Lord ['Gospel Song (Jake's)']
12. It's a Lonesome Road
13. Cheyenne
14. Smith's Rag

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, polypropylene 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 48kHz WAV file. Post processing was done with Nuendo using Waves Plugins. Sample Rate Conversion was performed using R8Brain. The file was dithered down to a 16-bit/44.1kHz WAV file using Izotope Ozone 3.

Tut Taylor Archive Reel #128 contains some fine recordings featuring Tut Taylor's friends, the Alabama-based Dixie Gentlemen, recorded on September 5, 1966, in all likelihood in Florence, Alabama. They cover some wonderful instrumentals and bluegrass classics. The band at this time included Jake Landers on guitar, Rual Yarbrough on banjo, Herschel Sizemore on mandolin, Al Lester on fiddle, and Jesse Handley on bass. Unfortunately, Side A suffers from a number of cuts and drop-outs.

--Mitchell Wittenberg

"This recording was originally made available by The Steam Powered Preservation Society, 501(c)(3), at www.thespps.org.

It is intended for personal and educational use only. All rights remain reserved by the artists."