Tut Taylor Archive Reel #239

Tut on Dulcimer, Tut on Dobro & Plectrum Banjo, Jim Johnson (?)/Tut on Dulcimer Circa 1976

Unknown Location

1/2/1976



	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 by David Avery with Nuendo using the 

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

down to a 16 bit/44.1kHz wave file.



1. (Dulcimer Tuning/Noodling)...Instrumental (?) 

2. Autry's Peach Orchard (themes/noodling) 

3. Folk Songs Medley...

4. ...Folk Songs Medley

5. (Dobro Noodling)...Ghost Picker (themes)

6. Banjo Solo/Noodling (plectrum style)

7. Banjo Solo/Noodling (plectrum style)

8. Banjo Solo/Noodling (plectrum style)

9. Utah Carol (aborted) (1)

10. Utah Carol (aborted) (2)

11. Utah Carol (aborted) (3)

12. Utah Carol (4)

13. Hoecake, Hominy, & Sassafras Tea

14. Never No More Hard Time Blues

15. Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo

16. Western Tale (tune: The Girl I Left Behind Me)

17. (Dulcimer Noodling)

18. Autry's Peach Orchard...Instrumental (?)

19. Golden Slippers

20. (Dulcimer Noodling)

21. (Dulcimer Noodling)

22. Crawdad Song (?)

23. (Dulcimer Noodling)

24. My Country 'Tis of Thee

25. (Dulcimer Noodling)

26. (Dulcimer Noodling)

27. Mountains & Wood Smoke Still Remain (1)

28. Mountains & Wood Smoke Still Remain (2)



Notes:



Side A1: Tut Taylor (Dulcimer) 1-4

Side A2: Tut Taylor (Dobro/Banjo) 5-8

Side B: 9-28



Tut Taylor Archive Reel #239 Sides A1, A2, and B contain several different sets of 

recordings which were likely made in the mid-1970's, possibly in 1976.  Side A1 

features Tut noodling around on solo dulcimer.  Side A2 finds Tut playing some 

Dobro and plectrum banjo.  Side B begins with an unknown guitarist performing 

western songs.  While I can't be sure, this may be Jim Johnson (compare Side B, 

tracks 19-20 with Archive Cassette #113 where Johnson performs a number of takes 

of "Mountains and Wood Smoke...").  The second half of Side B features, for the 

most part, some additional solo dulcimer.



--Mitchell Wittenberg



The box is labeled Asheville 1966, F&S.  It is clearly neither.  Side A is Tut playing dobro,

mandolin and banjo.  Side B is an unknown guitar player in what appears to be a radio broadcast.