Tut Taylor, The Flatpickin' Dobro Man, died on Thursday morning April 9, 2015, at the Wilkes Regional Medical Center in North Carolina. He was 91 years old. The Dobro virtuoso was a US Army and Navy veteran. Robert Arthur Taylor, Sr. was
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Tut Taylor passes
The bluegrass and country music world has lost a true titan. Tut Taylor, known far and wide as the "flatpicking dobro man," has died. He was 91 years old. Family friends tell us that Tut was hospitalized last week, and the
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Pilot Of A Steam Powered Aereo-Plain
If you're a fan of the music of John Hartford - and I know there are a lot of you out there - you may want to have a look at Pilot Of A Steam Powered Aereo-Plain, a new book by
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Old Friends – Doc Watson Memorial and Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame
With my return to the Carrboro/Chapel Hill, NC area in April to join the staff of The ArtsCenter, life has been largely a reunion recently. Two recent trips to the mountains possibly turned out even more poignant for me in
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Jerry Douglas on Tut Taylor
We posted a few weeks back about the top-secret Tut Taylor tribute album released July 13 by E1 Music. Entitled Southern Filibuster: A Tribute To Tut Taylor, the record features 14 top reso guitarists, each contributing a new version of
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Southern Filibuster: A Tribute To Tut Taylor
A very special CD project is released today on the E1 Entertainment label (formerly Koch Records). The album, Southern Filibuster: A Tribute To Tut Taylor, is the brainchild of celebrated resonator guitarist Jerry Douglas, who produced and recorded this project as
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Tut Taylor piece at SSPS
Sarah Hagerman has a a great interview with Tut Taylor up on the Steam Powered Preservation Society web site. Entitled Snapshots, Tapes and Broken Strings, the article includes a career overview of the noted resonator guitarist who has performed and recorded
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Tut Taylor interview on WNCW this weekend
Legendary dobro flatpicker Tut Taylor will be Dennis Jones' guest on this week's edition of Goin' Across The Mountain on WNCW. The show airs at 1:00 p.m. (EST) on Saturday, November 25, and can be heard over the air in