Tut Taylor Archive Reel #141A Jam at the Home of Rual Yarbrough Florence, AL March 1966 1. The Maiden's Prayer 2. Shenandoah Breakdown 3. (x) Wicked Path of Sin 4. It's a Lonesome Road 5. God Put a Rainbow in the Clouds 6. Making Plans 7. Instrumental (?) 8. Train 45 9. Dark Hollow 10. Brown County Breakdown (1) 11. Pickin' Flat 12. Brown County Breakdown (2) 13. Mocking Banjo 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 Waves Plugins. Sample Rate Conversion was performed using R8Brain. The file was dithered down to a 16 bit/44.1kHz wave file using Izotope Ozone 3. Tut Taylor Archive Reel #141A captures a March 1966 jam session at the home of banjo great Rual Yarbrough in Florence, AL. Rual is joined by Tut and his Dixie Gentlemen compatriots: Herschel Sizemore-mandolin, Jake Landers-guitar, Al Lester-fiddle, and in all likelihood, Jesse Handley-bass. --Mitchell Wittenberg