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Tut Taylor
Robert Arthur "Tut" Taylor Sr. (November 20, 1923 – April 9, 2015) was an American bluegrass musician. Taylor played banjo and mandolin as a child, and began playing dobro at age 14, learning to use the instrument with a distinctive flat-picking style. Taylor was a member of The Folkswingers in the 1960s, who released three albums; he recorded his debut solo effort in 1964. Later in the 1960s, he played with the Dixie Gentlemen and in John Hartford's Aereo-Plain band. Taylor became a local Nashville, Tennessee fixture. In 1970, he co-founded the instrument shop GTR there, soon after releasing another solo album. He also co-founded the Old Time Pickin' Parlor, a Nashville venue noted for performances of old-time music, as well as Tut Taylor's General Store. In a March, 1992 interview, Neil Young reported having bought Hank Williams' Martin D-28 Guitar from Tut Taylor. At the Grammy Awards of 1995, he was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album for his work on ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
North Wilkesboro is a town in Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States, approximately 80 miles north of Charlotte. The population was 4,131 at the 2020 US Census. North Wilkesboro is the birthplace and original home of Lowe's Home Improvement, which continues to have a major presence in the community. The town is also known as one of the birthplaces of the sport of stock-car racing, and the North Wilkesboro Speedway was the first NASCAR-sanctioned track. Due to the town's proximity to the nearby Blue Ridge Mountains and the numerous tourist venues there (Like Wilkes Playmakers and the AppleFest held annually), North Wilkesboro has been nicknamed the "Key to the Blue Ridge". History North Wilkesboro was founded in 1891 when the Norfolk and Southern Railroad built a railroad line into Wilkes County. The line ended on the northern bank of the Yadkin River opposite Wilkesboro, the county seat. The town of North Wilkesboro quickly developed around the railroad tracks. North Wilk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old-time Music
Old-time music is a genre of North American folk music. It developed along with various North American folk dances, such as square dancing, clogging, and buck dancing. It is played on acoustic instruments, generally centering on a combination of fiddle and plucked string instruments, most often the banjo, guitar, and mandolin. The genre is considered a precursor to modern country music. History Reflecting the cultures that settled North America, the roots of old-time music are in the traditional musics of the British Isles and Europe. African influences are notably found in instruments such as the banjo. In some regions French and German sources are also prominent. While many dance tunes and ballads can be traced to European sources, many others are of North American origin. The term "old-time" Old-time music represents perhaps the oldest form of North American traditional music other than Native American music, and thus the term "old-time" is an appropriate one. Fiddlin' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 Births
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album '' Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by Slipk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shacktown Road
''Shacktown Road'' is an album by Americana and folk musicians Norman Blake, Nancy Blake and Tut Taylor, released in 2007. It was the first time Blake and Taylor recorded together since they were members of John Hartford's Aero-Plain band in the 1970s. Track listing #"Shacktown Road" (Tut Taylor) – 4:34 #"Kindred Spirit" (Taylor) – 2:34 #"Guitar Rag" (Traditional) – 3:21 #"Not a Word from Home" ( Roy Acuff) – 2:58 #"The Old Dobro Man" (Taylor) – 3:59 #"Worried Blues" (Traditional) – 4:21 #"Tom Scala's Waltz" (Norman Blake) – 3:02 #"Lizzie Hubbard Blues" (Taylor) – 6:31 #"Going to Georgia" (Traditional) – 2:44 #"Ode to Bascom" (Taylor) – 2:30 #"On the Banks of Lake Pontchatrain" (Bryan) – 2:55 #"It Must Be Jelly" (Taylor) – 2:13 #"The Tag Railroad Rag" (Blake) – 3:33 #"Running Wild" (Taylor) – 1:37 #"Times Ain't Like They Used to Be" (Traditional) – 3:44 #"End of the World" ( Fred Rose) – 3:10 #"Steel Guitar Blues" (Traditional) – 1:46 #"The Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steam Powered Aereo-Takes
''Steam Powered Aereo-Takes'' is a collection of outtakes, demos and jam-sessions from John Hartford's groundbreaking 1971 album ''Aereo-Plain'', released in 2002. The music is a blend of traditional bluegrass musicianship, and the hippie spirit of the '70s. The other members of the Aereo-Plain Band were Norman Blake, Vassar Clements, Tut Taylor, and Randy Scruggs. History Hartford and the members of the Aereo-Plain Band recorded ''Aereo-Plain'', a blend of traditional bluegrass musicianship, and the hippie spirit of the '70s. The album has been called the forerunner of the genre now known as "Newgrass". The recording was done in informal jam sessions that created some 80-plus reels of tape. The tracks featured here are song sketches, outtakes, demos, impromptu jams, and goofing-off. Music critic Zac Johnson wrote that "If the sessions that were used on Aereo-Plain became the ''Revolver'' of the progressive bluegrass movement, this disc is more like the ''White Album'' or maybe '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns
''Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns'' is a studio album recorded by American musicians Norman Blake, Tut Taylor, Sam Bush, Butch Robins, Vassar Clements, and Jethro Burns and British bassist Dave Holland. It was released in 1975. From Hank Deane's original liner notes: "Hey, let's do a record in Nashville with everybody. "And Jethro Burns", says Sam. OK, all right, let's do it. I fly to Nashville to see Claude Hill and we do it." Reception Ken Dryden, in his Allmusic review states the album "...blur the imaginary lines between jazz and bluegrass even further; after all, a good musician in either field should be a great improviser." Track listing #"Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard) – 2:53 #"Sauerkraut 'N Solar Energy" (Jethro Burns, Vassar Clements, David Holland) – 7:33 #"The Old Brown Case" (Norman Blake) – 3:58 #"Take the "A" Train" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) – 3:36 #"Going Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friar Tut
''Friar Tut'' is an album by Americana (music), Americana and Bluegrass music, Bluegrass dobro player Tut Taylor, released in 1972. Taylor is joined by Norman Blake (American musician), Norman Blake, Sam Bush and David Taylor. Taylor's son David was 16 years old at the time of this recording. ''Friar Tut'' was reissued on CD in 1998. Reception In his Allmusic review, music critic Tim Sheridan wrote the album "The steel strings sing on this disc of original songs from the dobro guitar master." Track listing All songs by Tut Taylor unless otherwise noted. #"Sweet Picking Time in Toomsboro, Ga" – 1:53 #"Ghost Picker" – 2:27 #"Acoustic Toothpick" – 2:01 #"Linda" – 2:42 #"Midnight at Beanblossom" – 3:21 #"Daisy Dean" (Traditional) – 2:50 #"Sugar in the Gourd" – 1:25 #"F-5 Waltz" – 2:16 #"Arlo Buck" – 2:16 #"Stevens Steel" – 3:17 #"Picking on Josh" – 1:16 #"Oasis" – 3:43 #"This Ain't Grass" – 1:36 #"The Old Shoemaker" (Norman Blake) – 2:26 #"Me and My Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aereo-Plain
''Aereo-Plain'' is a 1971 studio album by American bluegrass singer-songwriter and instrumentalist John Hartford. It reached number 193 on The Billboard 200 chart. Background The music on ''Aereo-Plain'' is a blend of traditional bluegrass musicianship, and the hippie spirit of the '70s. The album sold so poorly that Warner Bros. decided to devote no promotion at all to Hartford's next release ''Morning Bugle''. Nevertheless, ''Aereo-Plain'' has been called the forerunner of the genre now known as " Newgrass". Hartford subsequently asked to be released from his contract and later signed with Flying Fish Records. The other members of the Aereo-Plain Band were bluegrass veterans Norman Blake, Vassar Clements, Tut Taylor, and Randy Scruggs. The sessions were controlled but relaxed, as Taylor commented, "John let us play what we wanted to play. 'Cause that's one of the beautiful parts about it—he just let us get in there and pick." Producer David Bromberg recounted, "We'd sit aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarence White
Clarence White (born Clarence Joseph LeBlanc; June 7, 1944 – July 15, 1973) was an American bluegrass and country guitarist and singer. He is best known as a member of the bluegrass ensemble the Kentucky Colonels and the rock band the Byrds, as well as for being a pioneer of the musical genre of country rock during the late 1960s. White also worked extensively as a session musician, appearing on recordings by the Everly Brothers, Joe Cocker, Ricky Nelson, Pat Boone, the Monkees, Randy Newman, Gene Clark, Linda Ronstadt, Arlo Guthrie, and Jackson Browne among others. Together with frequent collaborator Gene Parsons, he invented the B-Bender, a guitar accessory that enables a player to mechanically bend the B-string up a whole tone and emulate the sound of a pedal steel guitar. White was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Association Hall of Fame in 2016. Early years Clarence Joseph LeBlanc was born on June 7, 1944 in Lewiston, Maine. The LeBlanc family, who late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Douglas
Gerald Calvin "Jerry" Douglas (born May 28, 1956) is an American Dobro and lap steel guitar player and record producer. Career In addition to his fourteen solo recordings, Douglas has played on more than 1,600 albums. As a sideman, he has recorded with artists as diverse as Garth Brooks, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Phish, Dolly Parton, Susan Ashton, Paul Simon, Mumford & Sons, Keb' Mo', Ricky Skaggs, Elvis Costello, Tommy Emmanuel, James Taylor and Johnny Mathis, as well as performing on the ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' soundtrack and the follow up "Down From the Mountain" tour with Alison Krauss and Union Station. He has collaborated with various groups including The Whites, New South (band), The Country Gentlemen, Strength in Numbers, and Elvis Costello's "Sugar Canes". From 1996 to 1998, Douglas was a member of The GrooveGrass Boyz. Douglas produced a number of records, including some at Sugar Hill Records. He oversaw albums by Alison Krauss, the Del McCoury Band, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Dobro Sessions
''The Great Dobro Sessions'' is a 1994 country music and bluegrass album featuring an all-star line-up of 10 American resonator guitar players, produced by dobro players Jerry Douglas and Tut Taylor. The album won that year's Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. Featured artists *Mike Auldridge: Resonator and steel guitar player, former member of bluegrass group The Seldom Scene, he is known for his swing style playing on eight-string resonator guitars. Auldridge is considered to have pioneered the development of the instrument in genres outside country and bluegrass. His emphasis on tone and clean playing have led to emulation the Auldridge tone being considered desirable among many contemporary resophonic guitarists. Auldridge died in 2012 following a near decade-long struggle with cancer. *Curtis Burch: A member of the original New Grass Revival in the 1970s, and a guitarist as well as dobro player. *Jerry Douglas: A leading contemporary dobro player and 13 time Grammy Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grammy Award For Best Bluegrass Album
The Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works (songs or albums) in the bluegrass music genre. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position". Originally called the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Recording (Vocal or Instrumental), the award was first presented to Bill Monroe in 1989. In 1990 and 1991, the category was renamed Best Bluegrass Recording, and in 1990, the award was reserved for singles rather than albums. Since 1992, the award has been presented under the category Best Bluegrass Album. Beginning in 1993, award recipients often included the producers, engineers, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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