Ron Norman, Hughie Wylie, Curtis Burch, Walter Butler, Gene Jackson, Kenneth Hood, and others - Circa Mid-1960s - "A. J. Jackson Show" Radio Broadcasts, Smyrna/Douglasville Area of Georgia

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Ron Norman, Hughie Wylie, Curtis Burch, Walter Butler, Gene Jackson, Kenneth Hood, and others - Circa Mid-1960s - "A. J. Jackson Show" Radio Broadcasts, Smyrna/Douglasville Area of Georgia

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Tut Taylor Archive Reel #062 North Georgia Bluegrass Musicians (Ron Norman, Hughie Wylie, Curtis Burch, Walter Butler, Gene Jackson, Kenneth Hood, and others) "A. J. Jackson Show" Radio Broadcasts Smyrna/Douglasville Area of Georgia Circa Mid-1960s (1/2/1965) 1. Shuckin' the Corn 2. Maple Sugar 3. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms 4. I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home 5. Mocking Banjo 6. Are You Missing Me 7. Bill Cheatham 8. Chain Gang 9. Shenandoah Breakdown 10. Swing Low Sweet Chariot 11. Lady of Spain 12. Shuckin' the Corn 13. \Shuckin' the Corn 14. Black Ridge Ramble (Curtis Burch) 15. (Unnamed Instrumental) (Curtis Burch) 16. Cash on the Barrelhead (Robert Bruce) 17. We're Not Kids Any More (J. W. Dechereux & Daughter ?) 18. Roanoke (Dennis Burrell ?) 19. Mocking Banjo (Ron Norman & Hughie Wylie) 20. Who Will Sing For Me (The Bluegrass Five) 21. The World is Waiting for the Sunrise (Ron Norman & Hughie Wylie) 22. Shuckin' the Corn Source:  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: Q10, X-Hum, S1 Shuffler and L3. The file was dithered down to a 16-bit/44.1kHz WAV file. Show #1: Ron Norman, Hughie Wylie, Gene Jackson, and Kenneth Hood Show #2: Curtis Burch, Ron Norman, Hughie Wylie, Walter Butler, and others  The box is labeled "1968 D.J. Ron Norman, Larry McNeely & Charlie Collins." The reel is labeled "1968 D.J., Ron N." Tut Taylor Archive Reel #062 Side B is purported, based on its labeling, to have been recorded at a 1968 DJ Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. However, the tape actually contains two "A.J. Jackson Show" radio broadcasts recorded in the Smyrna/Douglasville area of Georgia circa mid-1960s. The first show recorded features Tut Taylor's friends from the Bluegrass Five, Ron Norman (banjo) and Hughie Wylie (mandolin) along with Gene Jackson (guitar) and Kenneth Hood (bass). Ron Norman is clearly the star of the show with his hot banjo picking that finds a nice balance between Earl Scrugg's traditional approach and the jazzier style of Don Reno. The second broadcast also features Ron Norman and Hughie Wylie, along with future New Grass Revivalist-to-be, Curtis Burch, on Dobro, and famed Georgia bandleader and guitarist, Walter Butler. Whereas the first show was completely recorded in the radio studio, a number of the tunes played during the second show were recorded elsewhere. I had a hard time catching the names of some of the local artists featured. --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."