Walter Butler & the Sun Valley Boys - Circa Mid-1960s - (A) Unknown Location (B) "Dixie Jubilee" Radio Program, Hapeville, Georgia

archive_item

Walter Butler & the Sun Valley Boys - Circa Mid-1960s - (A) Unknown Location (B) "Dixie Jubilee" Radio Program, Hapeville, Georgia

info@thespps.org

Tut Taylor Archive Reel #50 Walter Butler & the Sun Valley Boys Circa Mid-1960s Side A: 1. Crying My Heart Out Over You 2. Blue Ridge Mountain Blues 3. Cumberland Gap  4. I Know You're Married (But I Love You Still) 5. Roanoke 6. Green Mountain Hop 7. (Unidentified Instrumental) 8. There Stands a Glass 9. Little Cabin Home on the Hill 10. Black Mountain Rag 11. (Unidentified Banjo Breakdown Instrumental) 12. Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane 13. (Unidentified Banjo Breakdown Instrumental) Side B: "Dixie Jubilee" Radio Program, Hapeville, Georgia: 1. (Introduction) 2. (Unidentified Instrumental) 3. A Memory of You 4. (Introduction) 5. Cumberland Gap 6. Some Old Day 7. Dixie Breakdown 8. (Introduction) 9. (Unidentified Fiddle Tune) 10. Maple on the Hill 11. Sunny Mountain Chimes 12. The Old Fashioned Preacher 13. I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow (x) (Flatt & Scruggs) 14. (x) Crying My Heart Out Over You (Walter Butler?) 15. Where Will I Shelter My Sheep (Flatt & Scruggs) 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, 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 and L3. The file was dithered down to a 16-bit/44.1kHz WAV file. The box is labeled "Walter Butler/Don Norman, Dixie Jubilee" and "F&S." The reel is labeled "Don." Tut Tayor Archive Reel #50 features a variety of circa mid-1960s recordings of north Georgia bluegrass legends Walter Butler & the Sun Valley Boys--Butler on guitar and vocals, Leonard Pickens on fiddle, Don Norman on banjo, Ron Norman on guitar, and Nippy Green on bass.  Side A of this reel features some polished recordings of the band with particular emphasis on Don Norman's fine banjo picking. Side B contains recordings from the "Dixie Jubilee" radio program out of Hapeville, Georgia, where Butler and the Sun Valley Boys were regulars.   The announcer is clearly a Sun Valley Boys fan. See the following website for more detailed information about Walter Butler and his north Georgia bluegrass friends: http://www.bcbrown.net/bluegrass/chronicles/pioneers/wbutler/sunvalleyboys/sunvalleyboys.html -- Mitchell Wittenberg "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."