TUT TAYLOR
- Born in Possum Trot, Georgia. Lived in Milledgeville, Georgia. Moved to Nashville in 1970.
- Real name: Robert Arthur Taylor. He was nicknamed “Tut” by his parents when he was a child.
- He was a studio musician, sideman, graphic artist and luthier, an acoustic music icon around Nashville for more than four decades.
- He was best known as a Dobro™ player, and was often called the “flat-picking Dobro man” because he used a flat pick rather than finger picks on the instrument.
- 1962, recorded an album called “12 String Dobro” with Glen Campbell and the Folkswingers.
- 1963, appeared on the Kentucky Colonels “Appalachian Swing” album featuring Clarence White.
- 1964, released “Dobro County” album.
- After moving to Nashville in 1970, he co-founded GTR Guitars with George Gruhn and Randy Wood (which later became Gruhn Guitars). He also owned Grammar Guitars and co-founded Rich and Taylor Banjo company.
- He was also a sign painter and luthier. He did some custom work for Gibson in Nashville.
- 1971, appeared on John Hartford’s landmark “Aereoplane” album.
- 1972, released Friar Tut
album (recently reissued by Rounder Records).
- 1975, released Dobrolic Plectral Society album (Tacoma Records).
- 1995, won a Grammy award for his part on the Jerry Douglas album The Great Dobro Sessions
(Sugar Hill Records).
- 1998, released Flash Flood
album (Tutlee Records).
- 2007, released Shacktown Road
album with Norman and Nancy Blake (no label)
- 2010, Jerry Douglas released Southern Filibuster: a Tribute to Tut Taylor
(E1 Entertainment).
- 2015, died at the age of 91.