Question: What was the region that the music that Tut Taylor played was influenced by?

Context articles: Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns
Friar Tut
Tut Taylor
The Great Dobro Sessions
Shacktown Road
Steam Powered Aereo-Takes
Bluegrass music
Gruhn Guitars
Maurice Taylor
Roland Taylor

Norman Blake/Tut Taylor/Sam Bush/Butch Robins/Vassar Clements/David Holland/Jethro Burns
Friar Tut is an album by Americana and Bluegrass dobro player Tut Taylor, released in 1972.
 Taylor is joined by Norman Blake, Sam Bush and David Taylor.
 Taylor's son David was 16 years old at the time of this recording.
Robert Arthur "Tut" Taylor, Sr. (November 20, 1923 – April 9, 2015) was an American bluegrass musician.
The Great Dobro Sessions is a 1994 country music and bluegrass album featuring an all-star line-up of 10 American resonator guitar players, produced by dobro players Jerry Douglas and Tut Taylor.
Shacktown Road is an album by Americana and folk musicians Norman Blake, Nancy Blake and Tut Taylor, released in 2007.
 It was the first time Blake and Taylor recorded together since they were members of John Hartford's Aero-Plain band in the 1970s.
Steam Powered Aereo-Takes is a collection of outtakes, demos and jam-sessions from John Hartford's groundbreaking 1971 album "Aereo-Plain", released in 2002.
 The music is a blend of traditional bluegrass musicianship, and the hippie spirit of the '70s.
 The other members of the Aereo-Plain Band were Norman Blake, Vassar Clements, Tut Taylor, and Randy Scruggs.
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a related genre of country music.
 Influenced by the music of Appalachia, bluegrass has mixed roots in Irish, Scottish and English traditional music, and was also later influenced by the music of African-Americans through incorporation of jazz elements.
Gruhn Guitars is a musical instrument shop and place of interest located in Nashville, Tennessee.
 Vintage instruments comprise a large portion of its inventory, but it also features new instruments from factories and independent luthiers.
 It is a mecca for rock stars and well-heeled collectors.
 The business opened on January 2, 1970.
 It won a lot of new business and national attention after Visa featured it in 1992 in a TV commercial.
 George Gruhn is the world’s leading expert on vintage American guitars and related instruments, according to Walter Carter, historian and archivist for the Gibson Guitar Company.
 The shop was originally called GTR, which stood for George Gruhn, Tut Taylor and Randy Wood; a story has circulated that country music star Hank Williams, Jr. encouraged Gruhn to go into business.
 The store is located right by the stage door of the Ryman Auditorium, the home of the Grand Ole Opry.
 On December 31, 2006, Garrison Keillor, for his New Year's Show at Ryman Auditorium for PBS' "Great Performances" visited Gruhn Guitars with Vince Gill before the start of the show.
 Garrison Keiller's New Year's Eve Special Gill told a story about buying some of his guitars at Gruhn's.
 "Gruhn's customer's have included the likes of Duane Allman, Mark Knopfler, Conan O'Brien, Robert Plant and Eric Clapton.
Maurice De Shawn Taylor (born October 30, 1976) is an American former professional basketball player who played the power forward and center positions.
 Originally from Detroit, Taylor played college basketball at Michigan and was selected by the Los Angeles Clippers as the 14th overall pick in the 1997 NBA draft.
 Taylor played from 1997 to 2007 in the NBA for the Clippers, Houston Rockets, New York Knicks, and Sacramento Kings.
 From 2009 to 2011, Taylor played internationally in Italy and China.
Roland Morris "Fatty" Taylor (born March 13, 1946) is an American former professional basketball player.
 A 6’0" guard born in Washington, D.C. and an alum of La Salle University, Taylor joined the American Basketball Association in 1969.
 After one year playing for the Washington Capitals, he moved on to the Virginia Squires, with whom he spent the prime of his career, tallying 3,495 points, 1,737 assists, and 1,715 rebounds in five seasons.
 Taylor became known as one of the few outstanding defensive players in a league known primarily for a "run-and-gun" style.
 On the Squires Taylor played with former or later NBA stars including Adrian Smith, "Jumbo" Jim Eakins and Julius "Doctor J" Erving.
 For one-and-a-half seasons Taylor was a teammate of George Gervin, and Taylor has been credited with coining Gervin's nickname "The Iceman" (he first called Gervin "Iceberg Slim", which gradually developed into the more familiar nickname).
 Taylor spent one season in the NBA (1976–77) as a member of the Denver Nuggets, and he retired in 1977 with combined ABA/NBA totals of 5,098 points, 2,563 assists, and 2,524 rebounds.