Tut Taylor
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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.[1]
In a March, 1992 interview, Neil Young reported having bought Hank Williams' Martin D-28 Guitar from Tut Taylor.[2]
At the Grammy Awards of 1995, he was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album for his work on The Great Dobro Sessions with Jerry Douglas.[3]
Taylor recorded hundreds of reels of tape documenting and preserving bluegrass music, from "kitchen recordings" to live concerts, as well as serving as a recording engineer for studio albums. He donated about 500 reels to the Steam Powered Preservation Society, which has digitized many of them and made them available for streaming or downloading.[4]
Taylor died on April 9, 2015.[5]
Discography
- 12-String Dobro World Pacific 1816, 1963
- Dobro Country (with Clarence & Roland White), World Pacific, 1964
- Blues & Bluegrass With Dixie Gentlemen, Tune 1001, 1966
- Aereo-Plain, Warner Bros, 1971, Reissued by Rounder, 1997
- Friar Tut, Rounder 0011, 1972
- No Name Album, Flying Fish HDS704, 1974
- The HDS Sessions, HDS 701, 1975
- The Old Post Office, Flying Fish 008, 1975
- Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns (1976)
- Dobrolic Plectral Society, Takoma C1050, 1976
- The Great Dobro Sessions, Sugar Hill, 1994
- Flat Pickin' The Kitchen, Tutlee TL1001, 1997
- Flash Flood, Tutlee TL1002, 1998
- Steam Powered Aereo-Takes, Rounder, ROUN0480, 2002
- Tut and Clarence Flatpicking, Tutlee TL1003, 2003
- Shacktown Road (2007) (with Norman Blake and Nancy Blake)
- Oozing the Blues - Barker and Taylor, 2008 (with Steve Barker and Lorrie Barker)
References
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External links
- Tut Taylor official web site. Accessed February 2009.
- Tut Taylor Interview NAMM Oral History Library (2013)
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- 1923 births
- 2015 deaths
- People from Milledgeville, Georgia
- Musicians from Nashville, Tennessee
- Guitarists from Georgia (U.S. state)
- American bluegrass musicians
- Resonator guitarists
- American bluegrass mandolinists
- Guitarists from Tennessee
- 20th-century American guitarists
- Country musicians from Tennessee
- Country musicians from Georgia (U.S. state)