Tut Taylor Archive Reel #163 contains what appears to be several outtakes from 

Tut's 1971 Rounder Records LP "Friar Tut" with Norman Blake.  The tape is labeled "Ghost Picker", 

and this haunting, minor key instrumental appears in several run-throughs.   One other song, "Oasis", 

from "Friar Tut" is also found (of note, another version of "Oasis" appears on the "Steam Powered 

Aereo-Takes" outtakes from John Hartford's seminal LP, "Aereo-Plain").



--Mitchell Wittenberg



Tut Taylor Archive Reel #163

Labeled:  "Ghost Picker"

Tut Taylor with Norman Blake

"Friar Tut" Outtakes

Circa-1971



1. (Tuning)

2. Ghost Picker (1)

3. (Banter)

4. Ghost Picker (2)

5. (Engineer Talk)

6. Oasis



	The tape is a 7.5 inch per second stereo recording.  The 5" reel was baked at

145 degrees for 4.5 hours and 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 by David Avery with Nuendo using the 

following Waves Plugins: Q10, X-Hum, S1 Shuffler and L3.  The file was dithered

down to a 16 bit/44.1kHz wave file.