Tut Taylor, Walter Butler, and unknown others - Circa 1965 or 1966 - Walter Butler's Home in Pine Lake, Georgia

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Tut Taylor, Walter Butler, and unknown others - Circa 1965 or 1966 - Walter Butler's Home in Pine Lake, Georgia

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Tut Taylor Archive Reel #73 Bluegrass Jam at the Home of Walter Butler (with Tut Taylor and Unknown Others) Pine Lake, Georgia Circa 1965-66 (Possibly March 4, 1965 or March 1966) Side A: 1. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms 2. Little Cabin Home on the Hill (1) 3. Little Cabin Home on the Hill (2) 4. Springtime in Heaven 5. Turnaround (Tut Taylor on Dobro) 6. Instrumental (?) (Tut Taylor on Dobro) 7. Have You Lost All the Love? 8. Cotton-Eyed Joe 9. Seven Years Blues 10. "Cumberland Creek" (Stoney Creek) 11. ... Me and My Old Banjo (false start) 12. Me and My Old Banjo Side B: 1. ... (Talking/Tuning) 2. "Bluegrass, Part 6" (nice twin dobros: Tut Taylor and Curtis Burch?) 3. Old Country Church 4. Fire on the Mountain ... (Talking) 5. Wicked Path of Sin 6. ... Springtime in Heaven (false start) 7. Springtime in Heaven 8. Bile 'Em Cabbage Down 9. Come All Ye Fair & Tender Ladies 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, 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 the following Waves Plugins: X-Hum, Q10, LinEQ Lowband, C1 comp-gate, C1 comp-sc, Mixer Delay and L3.The file was dithered down to a 16-bit/44.1kHz WAV file. The box is labeled "Walter's 3/66." The reel is labeled "Walter March 4, 65." This is a jam session at Walter Butler's house.  Date uncertain. Tut Taylor Archive Reel #73 features a jam session at the Pine Lake, Georgia home of Walter Butler, North Georgia bluegrass pioneer (while the reel is labeled as "Walter March 4, 65'," the box is labeled "Walter's 3/66." ... (call it "Circa 1965-66"). It is difficult to ascertain who is performing, although Tut Taylor's Dobro is heard to good effect on a number of tunes, and a fine second Dobro player (Curtis Burch?) is found on Side B of the tape. Highlight tracks include Side A: tracks 4, 5, and 10, and Side B: tracks 2 and 4. --Mitchell Wittenberg In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Walter Butler was a guitar player who was part of the Sun Valley Boys, a bluegrass band which included Leonard Pickins on fiddle, Ron Norman on guitar, Nippy Green on bass, and Don Norman on banjo. "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."