Tut Taylor Archive Reel #142 Jam at the Home of Rual Yarbrough Florence, AL Circa March-1966 Side A: 1. Cheyenne 2. Done Gone 3. Brown County Breakdown 4. Orange Blossom Special 5. Stoney Creek 6. Panhandle Country 7. Instrumental (?) 8. Cold Wind Blowing 9. Pine Lake Picking Side B: 1. Little Green Pill 2. Little Maggie 3. Train 45 4. Dobro Twist 5. Salt Creek 6. Faded Love 7. It's a Little More Like Heaven 8. Sugarfoot Rag 9. Come All Ye Fair & Tender Ladies (x) 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 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 #142 features what is probably a March 1966 jam at the Florence, AL home of Rual Yarbrough, banjo player for The Dixie Gentlemen (and later for Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys). Participants include Yarbrough and bandmates Herschel Sizemore-mandolin, Jake Landers-guitar, Al Lester-fiddle, and Jesse Handley-bass, along with Tut on Dobro and Tom McKinney on banjo. --Mitchell Wittenberg