Steam Powered Preservation Society AKA The SPPS

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The Steam Powered Preservation Society

Also known as The SPPS, and sometimes referred to as the Steampowered Preservation Society, is a 501c3 non-profit organization. The SPPS an educational / archival group that collects and restores old recordings of primarily Americana string band music in the bluegrass, old-time, and country music genres, and distributes material for educational and archival purposes.

There are plans to expand the project to include blues and jazz when collections of historical significance are donated.

The SPPS began with The Tut Tapes. Tut Taylor, also known as "Tutbro" has been recording Americana string bands since the 1950s. His endeavor started as a way to learn the music but it became much more. Over the years, he used many tape recorders, but his collection of tapes became a path through history. Taylor's massive collection of over 500 tape recordings needed to be saved, as it represented a half a century of acoustic music. This collection consists of over 500 reel to reel and cassette tapes of Tut Taylor and various legendary figures in the American music scene. Your donations go 100% to taking this project to the next level, not to mention keeping the server alive! Once the music is extracted and archived, the tapes will be donated to the International Bluegrass Music Museum (IBMM). This task will be a lengthy one due to the age of some of the tapes, and the time required to perform the digitizing. Also, this is an expensive endeavor...

The SPPS is also the official repository for recorded, live, non-commercial recordings of John Hartford

External Links:
www.thespps.org