Get Up in the Cool
Get Up in the Cool features conversations and musical collaborations with some of Old Time music's most prominent figures, including Ken Perlman, Adam Hurt, Spencer & Rains, and Jake Blount. Host Cameron DeWhitt balances an enthusiastic curiosity about the potential of traditional music with a deep respect for its roots. As the audience's surrogate, he asks insightful questions to Old Time's best and brightest while telling the broader story of the tradition's modern era.
Episodes
Episode 521: NoaBass (Old Time Bass)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is NoaBass, with special guest friends Collin Stackhouse and Kaden Hurst! We recorded this a few hours ago. Sorry this episode’s out late.
Tunes in this episode:
Red Prairie Dawn (Garry Harrison original) (0:46)
High Up on Tug (20:50)
The Red Brick House in Georgia Town (37:29)
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(episode 521 will be slightly delayed)
Episode 520: Hayden Stern (Classic Tunes for the Post-Yearning Era)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Hayden Stern! We recorded this at his home in Seattle back in May.
Tunes in this episode:
Farewell to Santa Ana (Hayden Stern original) (0:32)
Susie’s (Hayden Stern original) (12:29)
Pit Trap (Hayden Stern original) (29:24)
Pretty Little Dog (42:23)
Rhodendenron (Hayden Stern original)
Episode 519: Jordan Wankoff (Learning and Teaching Traditional Music and Writing Tipping Back the Corn)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. We’re back to our regularly scheduled programming. This week’s friend is Jordan Wankoff! We recorded this on Sunday at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago.
Tunes in this episode:
Marmaduke’s Hornpipe (0:47)
Cowhide Boots (10:22)
Grand Picnic (Joe Politte original) (22:01)
Walk Old Shoe Heel Come A
Episode 518: Get Up in the Cool 10th Anniversary Look Back (Part 4)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. Get Up in the Cool is 10 years old! We’re going to spend this month looking back in four parts.
Tunes in this episode:
Richmond Blues with Rachel Eddy
Cumberland Gap with Earl White
Wade Ward’s Peach Bottom Creek with Maggie Lind
Wind and Rain with Carolyn Kendrick
Won’t You Come and Sing with Me with Anna
Episode 517: Get Up in the Cool 10th Anniversary Look Back (Part 3)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. Get Up in the Cool is 10 years old! We’re going to spend this month looking back in four parts.
Tunes in this episode:
The Old Yellow Dog Come Trotting Through the Meetinghouse with Brooks Masten
Evening Prayer Blues with Mark Graham
George Hammons’ Tune with The Canotes
Grandma’s March with Sweet Milk and
Episode 516: Get Up in the Cool 10th Anniversary Look Back (Part 2) (FIXED AUDIO)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. Get Up in the Cool is 10 years old! We’re going to spend this month looking back in four parts.
Tunes in this episode:
La de Mariano Romero with Lone Piñon
Davey Davey with Nic Gareiss
See that Rainbow Shine with Sarah Kate Morgan
Whispering Forest with Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms(original song by Marij
Episode 515: Get Up in the Cool 10th Anniversary Look Back (Part 1)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. Get Up in the Cool is 10 years old! We’re going to spend this month looking back in four parts.
Tunes in this episode:
Sugar Hill with Spencer Family and Friends
Molly Ban + Sullivan’s Hollow with Jess McIntosh
Chigule with Peter Mawanga
Mississippi Sawyer with Paul Brown
Moccasin Shuffle / Saddle Old Pain
Request For Upcoming Call Up In The Cool 10 Year Anniversary Edition
Next week is the ten year anniversary of Get Up in the Cool! I'm going to do a call up in the cool episode, but I need your questions/favorite moments from the last 10 years/tune and song requests. You can email a voice memo or written submission to getupinthecool@gmail.com
I'll be working on this Monday and Tuesday, so try and have these in before the weekend is over if you're going to
Episode 514: Lizzie Cahalin and Perry Blosser (of The Ridge Ramblers)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Lizzie Cahalin and Perry Blosser! We recorded this a couple weeks ago at Redwing Roots Festival in Virginia.
Tunes in this episode:
Sam Hill (0:40)
Otis Burris’s Fortune (09:14)
Winderslide (Joe LeRose original melody, Lorie Lichtenwalner original lyrics) (30:16)
Peas in the Pot (56:
Episode 513: Justin Golden (Blues Guitar and Old Time Banjo)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Justin Golden! We recorded this last weekend in Richmond, VA.
Tunes in this episode:
My Creole Bell (0:40)
You Got To Walk that Lonesome Valley (12:53)
Bad Luck Blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson original) (22:42)
The Rain Done Fell on Me (29:53)
You Don’t Know My Mind (36:09)
BONUS TRACK: S
Episode 512: Sweeten the Third (Banjo and Flatfooting) (see show notes for supercut of dancing)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Afton Coombs, here to talk about our new band, Sweeten the Third! We recorded this earlier in the month at TransTrad in Olympia, WA.
Tunes in this episode:
Kilby Snow’s Troubles / Rain Water (Cameron DeWhitt original) (1:11)
Wind and Rain (25:39)
Greasy Coat / Tam Lin (40:01)
Wild Moun
Episode 511: Miriam Hacksaw (Malayali Tunes, Political Music, and Liberatory Spirituality)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Miriam Hacksaw! We recorded this last weekend at TransTrad in Olympia, WA.
Tunes in this episode:
Thunhayenikkeshuvaam (0:41)
Silent Bullet (Miriam Hacksaw original) (17:02)
Kuttanadan Punjayile (32:14)
Vandi Pukavandi (49:24)
Sally in the Garden (54:24)
BONUS TRACK: Waterbound (Dirk P
Episode 510: Tall Poppy String Band (Tunes You Can Jam from our Second Album)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are my friends in Tall Poppy String Band, Morgan Harris and George Jackson! Mostly Morgan, but George sent a couple fiddle recordings over. We recorded this on Monday at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Nine Eagle Feathers in a County Cork Park (Cameron DeWhitt original) (
Episode 509: Sasha Stolasz (Cool Fiddle Moms and Learning from YouTube)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Sasha Stolasz! We recorded this a couple weeks ago at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Duck River (0:58)
Pony Boy (Mark Simos original) (9:32)
Polska efter Lars August Bejtsson (23:51)
Wandering Boy (35:06)
Neck Belly (42:10)
BONUS TRACK: Road to Westfield
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Episode 508: Simon Chrisman (Hammered Dulcimer)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Simon Chrisman! We recorded this Sunday at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Last Chance (1:25)
Arkansas Traveler (15:55)
Wild Hog in the Woods (33:51)
Happy Hollow (1:00:05)
Three Forks of Cheat (1:07:47)
BONUS TRACK: Maloney Creek (David Keenan original)
Visit The Bee
Episode 507: Devon Léger (Music Journalism and Publicity for Traditional Music)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Devon Léger! We recorded this Friday afternoon at his home in Seattle.
Tunes in this episode:
Reel de la Bière Alpine (André à Toto original) (1:12)
Jig à Jos Léger (21:20)
Bake the Bread (49:28)
Charley Kahana’s Pigtown Fling (1:16:45)
Avant-deux fredonné (1:38:35)
BONUS TRACK: Valse
Episode 506: Isabelle Kirk (Women in Old Time)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Isabelle Kirk! We recorded this on Monday night at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Texas John (1:14)
Karen Collins’ Tune (13:03)
Sugar in my Coffee-O (25:18)
Cross Key (44:34)
The Snouts and Ears of America (1:18:21)
BONUS TRACK: Red Brick House in Georgia Town
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Episode 505: Probably Polly String Band (Folk Punk, Playing for Square Dances, How to Start an Old Time Scene)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Andy, Mieke, Avery, Becca, Daria, and Morgan of Probably Polly String Band! We recorded this a couple hours ago at my home in Portland, OR. Sorry this one’s out late folks.
Tunes in this episode:
Sal’s Got Mud Between Her Tunes (0:49)
Cumberland Gap (12:50)
Logan County Blues (27:19
Episode 504: Portland Pub Sing (Ana Tighe, Ian Clemons, Asrune Reed, Claire Williams, Jonathan Lay)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. Lots of friends this week; we’ve got Ana Tighe, Ian Clemons, Asrune Reed, Claire Williams, and Jonathan Lay of the Portland Pub Sing! We recorded this on Monday at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Noah’s Ark Shanty (0:34)
Garners Gay (10:40)
Old Fid (31:02)
The Florence Whale Song (49:16)(Cl
Episode 503: Sandol Astrausky (Fiddles Are Scary, Jeff Todd Titon, and Teaching Old Time Music)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Sandol Astrausky! We recorded this earlier this month at Jake Blount’s home in Providence, RI, and he’ll join us later in the interview.
Tunes in this episode:
Liberty Off the Corn Liquor Still (0:35)
Big Black Cat (19:21)
Frank Barbee’s Hornpipe (43:29)
Forked Deer (55:29)
California
Episode 502: Mareva Lindo and Jay Desrosiers (Old Time Music in Illinois)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Mareva Lindo and Jay Desrosiers! We recorded this on Saturday at Jake Blount’s home in Providence, RI.
Tunes in this episode:
Jump that Log (0:32)
Noah Beavers’ Cotton Eyed Joe (12:58)
Biford Tite’s Old Shawneetown (31:24)
Eleanor Gibson’s Molly Bond (53:25)
Jamie’s on the Stormy Se
Episode 501: Phoebe Sanders (Banjo, Limberjacks, and Jig Dolls)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Phoebe Sanders! We recorded this earlier this month at her home in La Mirada, CA.
Tunes in this episode:
Sugar Hill (0:49)
Hell Broke Loose in Georgia (12:41)
Cindy (21:32)
Going Across the Sea (27:02)
Lost Girl (32:54)
BONUS TRACK: Hangman’s Reel
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Episode 500: Frank Fairfield (The Theoretical, The Practical, and the Poetical)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Frank Fairfield! We recorded this earlier this month at Frank’s home in LA.
Tunes in this episode:
There’s a Brown Skin Girl Down the Road Somewhere (1:27)
Darlin’ Cory (12:08)
Cottonwood Reel (46:19)
Old Aunt Jenny with her Nightcap On (1:18:14)
Jack o’ Diamonds (1:30:06)
BONUS TRACK:
Episode 499: Kenny Feinstein (Punk to Old Time Pipeline)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Kenny Feinstein! We recorded this yesterday at their home in LA.
Tunes in this episode:
Give Me a Chaw Tobacco (0:35)
Jeff City (9:33)
The Girl Slipped Down (18:21)
Box the Fox (39:48)
Lost Indian (44:40)
BONUS TRACK: Hell and Scissors
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Episode 498: Tommy Schulz (Settings-Based Music and Shonen Irish Ballads)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Tommy Schulz! We recorded this on Monday at my home in Portland, Oregon.
Tunes in this episode:
Shove that Pig’s Foot a Little Further into the Fire (0:55)
Arthur McBride (27:37)
Coleman’s March (48:28)
The Clyde Water (1:03:42)
Isambard's Waltz (Bruce Molsky original) (1:24:39)
BONUS
Episode 497: Caleb & Reeb (Writing in Idiom and the Limits of Genre)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Caleb & Reeb! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, Oregon.
Tunes in this episode:
Gold in Your Pocket (Caleb Klauder original) (0:57)
He’s Gone (Caleb Klauder original) (18:52)
Trust in Your Luck (Reeb Willms original) (43:04)
Gathering Flowers (1:00:17)
Shame Sham
Episode 496: Evan Coombs (Green Day, Maritime Folk, and Hiking the AT)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Evan Coombs! We recorded this on Sunday at my home in Portland, Oregon.
Tunes in this episode:
Little Pine Siskin (John Reischman original) (1:22)
Rattletrap (22:06)
I Wash Myself with a Rag on a Stick (Kieran Towers & Charlotte Carrivick original) (45:16)
The Cuckoo (52:15)
The B
Episode 495: Sophie Enloe (Writing New Old Time Tunes)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Sophie Enloe! We recorded this yesterday at her home in Portland, Oregon.
Tunes in this episode:
Lizzie Flew the Coop (Sophie Enloe original) (0:37)
Sophie’s Cumberland Gap (Sophie Enloe original) (12:27)
Unnamed Tune #1 (Sophie Enloe original) (24:01)
Unnamed Tune #2 (Sophie Enloe ori
Episode 494: Sparrow Smith (Writing in the Old Time Idiom)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Sparrow Smith! We recorded this on Monday at my home in Portland, Oregon.
Tunes in this episode:
Katie Morey (0:46)
Jewel of the Blue Ridge (Sparrow Smith original) (10:32)
Undone in Sorrow (31:47)
Young Sally (Sparrow Smith original) (42:34)
Chips and Sauce (Ira Bernstein original) (
Episode 493: Call Up in the Cool No. 8
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are you, because this a Call Up in the Cool episode.
Tunes in this episode:
Goodbye Booze
Get Ready With Medo Halimy / Ya Tala'ayn El-Jabal (Cameron DeWhitt original / Palestinian folk song)
Curly Headed Woman
Old Chattanooga
If I Were a Bell (Lyrics by Vera Moller, melody by Creekbed C
Episode 492: Sue Truman (The Crankie Factory)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Sue Truman, with special guests Jerry Gallaher and WB Reid! We recorded this at Jinny Macrae’s home during the Portland Old Time Music Gathering.
Tunes in this episode:
Coondog
Tommy Jarrell’s Cumberland Gap
Black Jack Grove
Sue Truman’s Barn Quilt Trail Crankie
Coleman’s March
Come
Episode 491: Annie and Ellie Davis (ETSU, Learning from Source Recordings, and Old Time Ownership)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Annie and Ellie Davis! We recorded this on Saturday in my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Jimmie on the Railroad (from Fiddlin' John Carson) (0:32)
Doe River (Annie Davis original) (20:25)
With Kitty I’ll Go (from Jean Ritchie) (58:13)
Old Cumberland (Pat Conte original
Episode 490: Butterchurch (Smörkyrka)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Liam Barnes, Isabel Dammann, and Collin Stackhouse of Butterchurch, AKA Smörkyrka! We recorded this on Saturday in my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Slängpolska efter Juringius (0:42)
1814 (8:14)
Eklundapolska 1 (17:06)
Slängpolska från Barsebäck (32:41)
Vrigstad (39:4
Episode 489: Will McKay (Old Time Songs and How to Insert them into Jams)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Will McKay! We recorded this on Monday in my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
All the Good Times Are Past and Gone (0:36)
I Am a Pilgrim (12:13)
Booth (19:40)
Tear Down the Fences (Ola Belle Reed original) (28:28)
Silver Dagger (to the tune of Ola Belle Reed’s Undone in So
Episode 488: Eli Broxham (Music, Pleasure, the Body, and Labor)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Eli Broxham! We recorded this earlier in the month at his home in Nashville.
Tunes in this episode:
Fine Times at Our House (0:30)
Old Horse and Buggy (16:54)
Julianne Johnson (38:07)
Shove that Pig’s Foot a Little Further into the Fire (52:26)
Liza Jane (1:01:15)
BONUS TRACK: Susanna
Episode 487: The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project (Sharon Gilchrist, Rachel Baiman, and Ella Korth)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Sharon Gilchrist, Rachel Baiman, and Ella Korth, of The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project! We recorded this last week at Rachel’s home in Madison, TN.
Tunes in this episode (all John Hartford originals):
Takes Her Clothes Off (0:36)
Not Soft Enough (11:28)
Don’t Throw Her Down (21:39
Episode 486: Brittany Haas (Old Time Fiddle)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Brittany Haas! We recorded this last weekend at her home in Nashville.
Tunes in this episode:
Hawk is a Mule (Andrew Marlin original) (0:33)
Waynesboro (9:28)
Old Aunt Jenny with Her Nightcap On (24:56)
Polska efter Nylands Olle (36:30)
Half Past Four (41:10)
BONUS TRACK: Sugar in the
Episode 485: Get Up in the Yule (with Dear Crow)
Welcome to Get Up in the Yule: Holiday Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This year’s friends are Penka Jane Culevski and Brian Lindsay of Dear Crow! We recorded this the day after Thanksgiving in their home in Olympia, WA.
Tunes in this episode:
James Crase’s Christmas Time’s A Comin’ (0:50)
Gloucestershire Wassail (16:55)
Build Up the Bonfire (Zoe Mulford original) (30:28)
Chris
Episode 484: Joe Seamons (Songs of the Pacific Northwest)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Joe Seamons! We recorded this last weekend at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Cedar Mill Boys (lyrics from Hobe Kytr) (1:13)
Waterbound (extra lyrics from Joe Seamons) (14:34)
Give the Fiddler a Dram (extra lyrics from John Cunnick) (30:12)
Same Old Wind (John and Kim
Episode 483: River Scheuerell and Alex Sturbaum (Old Time with Irish Back-Up Guitar)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are River Scheuerell and Alex Sturbaum! We recorded this last week at Alex’s home in Olympia, WA.
Tunes in this episode:
Half Irish (1:03)
Rocking in the Weary Land (9:15)
Winderslide (20:14)
Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom (29:26)
Bob’s Farewell (37:47)
BONUS TRACK: Gunboat
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Episode 482: Darin Gentry (Learning from Dwight Diller)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Darin Gentry! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Half Past Four (0:54)
Greasy String (25:10)
Paddy on the Turnpike (44:00)
Dwight Diller’s Cumberland Gap (50:27)
Sally Ann (1:11:53)
BONUS TRACK: Yew Piney Mountain
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Episode 481: Lillian Sawyer (Agendaless Music)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Lillian Sawyer! We recorded this on Sunday at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Walk Along John to Kansas (0:40)
Johnny Court the Widow (20:52)
Speed the Plow (46:24)
Farewell Princeton (51:32)
Come On Old Paint, Let's Get On Up That Hill (Bach Bui original) (58:42)
BONU
Episode 480: Eros Faulk (Living in Portland and Playing Irish Tunes Without Sets)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Eros Faulk! We recorded this yesterday at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
The Fairy Reel (0:44)
Lucy Farr’s (13:58)
Pride of Roxbury (22:09)
Donal A' Phumpa (34:16)
Come West Along the Road (41:34)
BONUS TRACK: Timmy Clifford’s
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Episode 479: Golden Shoals (Live at Old Growth Old Time w/ Special Guest Host Doreen Ditties of Tradwife)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Amy Alvey and Mark Kilianski of Golden Shoals! They recorded this a few weeks ago in front of a live audience at Old Growth Old Time in Seattle. I say they and not we because this episode of Get Up in the Cool actually had a guest host, Doreen Ditties, of Tradwife Stringband.
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Episode 478: Devin Champlin (Georgia Tunes, Corny Rags, and Cowboy Fantasies)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Devin Champlin! We recorded this on Monday at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Rabbit Under a Collard Leaf (0:47)
Monroe Stomp (15:24)
Trail to Mexico (22:40)
Field of Clover (Devin Champlin original) (35:36)
None of Your Business (43:40)
BONUS TRACK: The Boll Weevil Dr
Episode 477: George Jackson (The Old Time 100 Vol. 2 and Making Art with Fiddle Tunes)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is George Jackson! We recorded this a couple weeks ago in Myrtle Beach.
Tunes in this episode:
Rye Straw (0:50)
Tilman Pyeatt’s Angeline the Baker (13:46)
Happy Hollow (19:30)
Beef Demon (George Jackson original) (31:54)
Shady Lane (48:02)
BONUS TRACK: Esker Hutchins’ Cumberland Gap
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Episode 476: Kelsey Sutton (Flatfooting and Ballad Singing)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Kelsey Sutton! We recorded this in September at the Queer and Trans Old Time Music Gathering.
Tunes in this episode:
Sail Away Ladies (0:55)
Henry King’s Reel (Trevor Stuart original) (13:43)
My Dearest Dear (29:44)
No Ash Will Burn (Walt Aldridge original) (44:30)
Winderslide (52:43)
Episode 475: Wila Frank (Old Time Music Grounding)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Wila Frank! We recorded this on Monday at her home in Nashville.
Tunes in this episode:
Hop High Ladies (1:01)
Glory in the Meetinghouse (10:03)
Taxidermy Man (Wila Frank original) (22:16)
Seneca Square Dance (34:48)
Lady Hamilton (43:31)
BONUS TRACK: I Ain’t Got Nobody
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Episode 474: Anna RG (Old Time Ballads, Community, and Disability in Traditional Music)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Anna RG! We recorded this on Monday over Discord, which we’ll get into more in the interview.
Tunes in this episode:
The Willow Tree (0:34)
Rock Andy (34:40)
Red Rocking Chair (57:46)
The Death of Harry Simms (Aunt Molly Jackson original) (1:24:49)
Won’t You Come and Sing for Me (Hazel
Episode 473: Greta Hazilla (Scottish and Irish Fiddle)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Greta Hazilla! We recorded this on Sunday at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
The Tattie Ball/Hull’s Reel (0:29)
Star of Munster/Siobhan O’Donnell’s/Boys of Malin (8:02)
Whiteface (Joe Thrift original) (20:36)
The Sailor's Wife/Julia Delaney's (25:29)
Lady Mary Ramsey S
Episode 472: Call Up in the Cool No. 7
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are you all, because it’s another Call Up in the Cool episode; figured we were due for one. These are always super fun, and it’s always a bit like pulling teeth to get people to send in questions and requests, so, here’s my ask: if you think of a question and a tune request while listening
Episode 471: Morgan Harris (Old Time Fiddle)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Morgan Harris! We recorded this on Monday at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Jon Bekoff’s Lone Prairie (1:11)
Hawk’s Got a Chicken (15:42)
Sal Will You Marry Me (35:12)
Darley Fulks’ Billy Lost in the Lowlands (48:27)
Cookhouse Joe (53:51)
BONUS TRACK: Speed the Plow
Episode 470: Joe Moore (Stringband Class with the Canotes and Learning Instruments on a Whim)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Joe Moore! We recorded this on Monday at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Nancy Dalton (1:56)
Hunting the Buffalo (17:28)
Cora Dye (33:45)
Rose in the Morning (55:42)
Ragged Coat (1:03:08)
BONUS TRACK: Charleston Gals
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Episode 469: Ben Nelson (Live at Earful of Fiddle, feat. Becky Hill)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Ben Nelson, with special guest Becky Hill! We recorded this back in June in front of a live audience of campers at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI.
Watch the videos of the dancing moments of this episode!
Tunes in this episode:
Camp Chase (0:43)
Natural Bridge Blues (15:49)
Sally Sif
Episode 468: Humbletown (Morgan Carnes, Dylan Lewis, and James Schrag)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are the members of Humbletown: Morgan Carnes, Dylan Lewis, and James Schrag! I recorded them yesterday at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Five Miles From Town (0:25)
Last Chance / Missouri River Weave (Morgan Carnes original) (9:57)
Little Pine Siskin (John Reischman ori
Episode 467: Emily Doebler (Earful of Fiddle, Arts Funding, and Floor Kicking)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Emily Doebler! I recorded her in June at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI.
Tunes in this episode:
Sandy River Belle (0:50)
Walter McNew’s Lost Girl (8:01)
Half Irish (29:42)
JP Fraley’s Dry and Dusty (44:45)
Jake Phelps’ Durang’s Hornpipe (49:39)
BONUS TRACK: Winderslide
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Episode 466: Evie Ladin (Music Is to Do)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Evie Ladin! I recorded her in June at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI.
Tunes in this episode:
Last of Kelsey (Clayton Schanilec original) (0:28)
Sidna Myers Forkey Deer/Forked Deer (25:42)
Mistreated Mama/Yew Piney Mountain (30:48)
Glory (Evie Ladin original)/Valley Forge (36:46)
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Episode 465: Gray Dawson (Teaching Traditional Music and Addressing Disability at Festivals and Camps)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Gray Dawson! I recorded them in June at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI.
Tunes in this episode:
The Crooked Stovepipe (0:51)
Little Burnt Potato (08:47)
Pays De Haut (23:25)
The Saint Lawrence Jig (42:23)
Sheenboro Hop (46:43)
BONUS TRACK: Spootiskerry
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Episode 464: Ruby John (Indigenous Identity and Fiddling)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Ruby John! I recorded her in June at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI.
Tunes in this episode:
Fox Family Reel (Andy de Jarlis original) (0:38)
Sourgrass and Granite (Brian Pickell original) (32:09)
The Green Eyed G**** (Budd Greenman original) (53:58)
Golden Ticket (Eric Merrill origina
Episode 463: Afton Coombs (Flatfooting)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Afton Coombs! I recorded them in June at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI.
Here's the link to the YouTube playlist of tunes from this episode!
Tunes in this episode:
Devil in the Strawstack (1:05)
John Lusk’s Apple Blossom (13:33)
The Blackest Crow (26:39)
Cookhouse Joe (39:37)
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Episode 462: Lazy Susan (Kelly Madewell and Iris Cooke)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Kelly Madewell and Iris Cooke, also known as Lazy Susan! I recorded them last week at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI.
Tunes in this episode:
Farewell Trion (0:34)
Cranberry Rock (10:24)
Five Miles from Town (27:46)
I’ve Endured (Ola Belle Reed original) (36:56)
Trouble in Mind (41:1
Episode 461: Richie & Rosie (Live from Inside the Baltimore Museum of Industry’s 1953 Packard Clipper)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Richie Stearns & Rosie Newton, also known as Richie & Rosie! I recorded them back in April at the Baltimore Old Time Music Festival.
Tunes in this episode:
Five Miles to Town (0:33)
Hang Me (6:35)
Glory in the Meetinghouse (18:08)
I Am With You Always (Richie & Rosie) (2
Episode 460: Bruce Ling (Sharing Music and Energy feat. Austin Benzing)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Bruce Ling, with special guest guitarist Austin Benzing! I recorded them in May at the Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend in Remus, Michigan.
Tunes in this episode:
Fiddle’s Waltz (Bruce Ling original) (0:35)
Crawdad Shuffle (Bruce Ling original) (18:10)
High River Blues (Bruce Ling o
Episode 459: Ben Traverse (Folk Songs, Lomax, and Music from Michigan)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Ben Traverse! I recorded them in May at the Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend in Remus, Michigan.
Tunes in this episode:
Raging Canal (Sent My Brown Jug Downtown) (0:50)
Lost on the Lady Elgin (10:08)
Who Feeds Us Beans (23:43)
Beaver Dam Road (40:55)
Shenandoah (47:09)
BONUS TRACK:
Episode 458: Micah Ling (Dressing Tradition)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Micah Ling! We recorded this at her home in Lansing, MI, then we ran out of time, and we finished at Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend.
Songs and tunes in this episode:
Le Valse de la Rebec (Bruce Ling original) (1:05)
Are You Tired of Me, My Darling (19:19)
Maggie Meade (46:43)
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Episode 457: Gray Buchanan (Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend and Original Tunes from Friends)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Gray Buchanan! We recorded this on Sunday at the Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend in Remus, Michigan. Thanks again for bringing Tall Poppy String Band out, Wheatland!
Tunes in this episode:
Oysters in the Half Shell (1:09) (Claire Silbernagel original)
Winter Break (8:56) (Isaac McC
Episode 456: Joseph Decosimo (Shiny New Tunes and Human Limits)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Joseph Decosimo! We recorded this about a month ago at Sonya Badigian’s place in Durham, NC. Thanks again for hosting us, Sonya!
Tunes in this episode:
Blackberry Blossoms (0:41)
Betty Baker (14:48)
Two O’Clock (50:50)
Flowery Girls (1:13:46)
Puncheon Camps (1:16:20)
BONUS TRACK: Peas
Episode 455: SunFish Duo (Sarah Ells Fish and Dan Fish)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Sarah Ells Fish and Dan Fish, also known as Sunfish Duo! We recorded this a couple weeks ago at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
The Cuckoo (0:48)
Going to the West (10:25)
Aragon Mill (29:50)
Midnight on the Stormy Deep (45:46)
Winding Stream (1:01:20)
BONUS TRACK: Th
Episode 454: Kristina R. Gaddy (Early Black American Fiddle and Banjo Music)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Kristina R. Gaddy! We recorded this at Brad Kolodner’s place in Baltimore.
Tunes in this episode:
Pompey Ran Away (0:45)
Throw the Banjo Out of Tune (12:15)
Congo Prince Jig (36:39)
Congo (55:55)
Poor Rosy (1:07:45)
BONUS TRACK: That’s My Rabbit My Dog Caught It
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Episode 453: Brian Dolphin (Writing Original Tunes)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Brian Dolphin! We recorded this recently in Baltimore.
Tunes in this episode:
Ducks on the Pond (0:40)
Old Ford (Brian Dolphin original) (12:28)
Squirrel in the Fig Tree (Brian Dolphin original) (28:12)
Robin in the Field (Brian Dolphin original) (42:22)
Daylight Savings (Brian Dolphi
Episode 452: Shanice Richards (Jamaican Church, The Little Mercies, and Old Time with Somethin’ Sassy)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Shanice Richards! We recorded this on Monday in Baltimore.
Tunes in this episode:
The Girl I Left Behind (0:59)
New Jordan (7:12)
Jenny on the Railroad (30:26)
Three Forks of Cheat (46:05)
Jubilee (56:09)
Bonus Track: Snake’s Wild Tune
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Episode 451: Morgan Harris (April Duo Bill Tour with Cameron DeWhitt)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Morgan Harris! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Little Rose (0:40)
Waverly (15:44)
Done Gone (25:11)
Puncheon Camps (34:14)
Clyde Davenport’s Lost Girl (41:45)
Bonus Track: Hell and Scissors
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Episode 450: Creekbed Carter Hogan (Labor Songs)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Creekbed Carter Hogan! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
If I Were a Bell (lyrics by Vera Moller, melody by Creekbed Carter Hogan) (0:51)
Union Maid (10:51)
Where the Fraser River Flows (22:12)
If I Was (Creekbed Carter Hogan original) (40:0
Episode 449: Joy Adams and Hazel Royer (The Low End of Big Richard)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Joy Adams and Hazel Royer of Big Richard! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Been All Around this World (0:57)
In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain (14:56)
Elk River Blues (26:37)
Oh My Little Darling (please write in if you know the true title
Episode 448: Eva Leach (Musician Identity Outside of Performance)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Eva Leach! We recorded this at the Oly Old Time Festival in Olympia, WA.
Tunes in this episode:
Clyde Davenport’s Sally Johnson (0:42)
Western Union (12:02)
Belle of Lexington (24:04)
Won’t You Come and Sing for Me (Hazel Dickens original) (31:33)
Burt Anderson’s Tune (36:30)
Bonus T
Episode 447: Ellie Hakanson (Proto-Feminist Bluegrass Songs, John Hartford, and Hazel Dickens)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Ellie Hakanson! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Not Soft Enough (John Hartford original) (0:47)
Scraps from Your Table (Hazel Dickens original) (20:42)
Say Darling Say (30:22)
I Love You Honey (Patsy Cline) (49:16)
January Waltz (Betse Ell
Episode 446: Carolyn Kendrick (Tradition, Reactionary Politics, and the Satanic Panic)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Carolyn Kendrick! We recorded this on Sunday at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Happy Hollow (1:09)
Wind and Rain (19:12)
Are You Washed (42:38)
A Perfect World (Carolyn Kendrick music, David Keig words) (1:00:40)
Leela (1:09:50)
Bonus Track: Lost Girl
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Episode 445: Kat Wallace (Old Time Fiddling and Writing Songs)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Kat Wallace! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Who Shot the Rooster (0:30)
Ways of the World (10:48)
Time to Time (Kat Wallace original) (24:36)
West Virginia Mining Disaster (37:45)
Five Miles to Town (44:08)
Bonus Track: Ducks on the Millp
Episode 444: Natterjack (Contra Dance Music and Compulsory Non-Binary Identity)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are the members of Natterjack, Ezra Jane Landsman, Hayden Stern, and Alex Sturbaum! We recorded this earlier in the month in Seattle.
Tunes in this episode:
Hollow Poplar (0:40)
Emancipation (10:05)
Björntösen (26:51)
Flying Home (41:19)
Lost Girl (52:30)
Bonus Track: Cumberland Gap
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