Friar Tut is an album by Americana

Americana (music)

Americana is an amalgam of roots musics formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the American musical ethos; specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and other external influential styles...

 and Bluegrass

Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...

 dobro

Dobro

Dobro is a registered trademark, now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar.The name has a long and involved history, interwoven with that of the resonator guitar...

 player Tut Taylor

Tut Taylor

Tut Taylor is 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 LPs; he recorded his debut...

, released in 1972. Taylor is joined by Norman Blake

Norman Blake (American musician)

Norman Blake is an instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter. In a career spanning more than 50 years Blake has played in a number of folk and Country groups...

, Sam Bush

Sam Bush

Sam Bush is an American bluegrass mandolin player considered an originator of the Newgrass style.- History :...

 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.

1. "Sweet Picking Time in Toomsboro, Ga" – 1:53
2. "Ghost Picker" – 2:27
3. "Acoustic Toothpick" – 2:01
4. "Linda" – 2:42
5. "Midnight at Beanblossom" – 3:21
6. "Daisy Dean" (Traditional) – 2:50
7. "Sugar in the Gourd" – 1:25
8. "F-5 Waltz" – 2:16
9. "Arlo Buck" – 2:16
10. "Stevens Steel" – 3:17
11. "Picking on Josh" – 1:16
12. "Oasis" – 3:43
13. "This Ain't Grass" – 1:36
14. "The Old Shoemaker" (Norman Blake) – 2:26
15. "Me and My Dobro" – 2:44
16. "Southern Filibuster" – 2:37
17. "Friar Tut" – 2:00

Personnel

• Tut Taylor – dobro
  Dobro
  Dobro is a registered trademark, now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar.The name has a long and involved history, interwoven with that of the resonator guitar...
  
  , guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Norman Blake
  Norman Blake
  Norman Blake may refer to:*Norman Blake , American folk & bluegrass instrumentalist and vocalist*Norman Blake , Scottish rock musician who is a member of Teenage Fanclub...
  
   – guitar, mandolin
  Mandolin
  A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
  
  , vocals on "Daisy Dean"
• Sam Bush
  Sam Bush
  Sam Bush is an American bluegrass mandolin player considered an originator of the Newgrass style.- History :...
  
  – mandolin
• David Taylor – guitar on "Me and My Dobro" and "Southern Filibuster"

Production notes

• Tut Taylor – producer
• Michael Melford – executive producer
• Claude J. Hill – engineer
• Dr. Toby Mountain – mastering
• Slick Lawson – photography
• Bobby Wolfe – liner notes