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Get Up in the Cool

Cameron DeWhitt

Get Up in the Cool features conversations and musical collaborations with some of Old Time music"s heaviest hitters, like Ken Perlman, Adam Hurt, Spencer & Rains, and Jake Blount. As an interviewer, Cameron balances an effusive curiosity for the potential of traditional music with a dogged respect for its origins. Serving as audience surrogate, Cameron asks illuminating questions to Old Time"s best and brightest while telling the larger story of the tradition"s modern era.

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Episode 75: Jess McIntosh (Suzuki/Crooked Tunes/The...

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2018/01/31

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jess McInstosh; we recorded this over Thanksgiving weekend in Chicago, the day after I recorded Charlie Walden. We played some of my very favorite tunes and Jess sang the best lyrics to cider I’ve ever heard, and she introduced me to Molly Ban, which is my new favorite trad song. Good music happened, is what I’m trying to say. Tunes we’ll play: Cherry River Rag Sweet Nell Jeff Sturgeon/Chinquapin

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Episode 74: Ken Perlman (Melodic Clawhammer Banjo)

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2018/01/24

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Ken Perlman. The Ken Perlman! Tunes we’ll play: Billy in the Lowlands Folding Down the Sheets Squirrel Hunters Grover Jones Waltz Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase Bonus Track: Jerusalem Ridge Frails and Frolics: http://kenperlman.com/frails-frolics/ or CD Baby: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/kenperlman2 Ken’s Website: http://kenperlman.com/ Ken’s work on the music of Prince Edward Island:

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Episode 73: Charlie Walden (Midwest Fiddling, Old...

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2018/01/17

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Charlie Walden. We recorded this at Rupert and Karen’s house in Chicago, so... thanks, new Chicago buddies! Tunes we’ll play: Arkansas Traveler Liberty Danced All Night With A Bottle In My Hand Leather Britches The Girl I Left Behind Me Wagoner New Boston Hornpipe Constitution Hornpipe Bonus Track: Happy Jack Stuff to plug: Charlie’s Website: http://charliewalden.com/ And Facebook page:

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Episode 72: Scott Mathis and Linda Askew (Music from...

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2017/12/20

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Scott Mathis and Linda Askew, and they brought with them GuAchi music from the Tohono O’odham nation! We recorded this in the middle of Clifftop week at Keith McManus’ tent down in the swamp. Tunes we’ll play: Pinto Beans Ali Oidak Polka Valse de los Panos Mi Suegra Apreta Mis Botas Polka De Rafa Deschutes Or Lose It Bonus Track: Wish I Had My Time Again Buy Gu-Achi Fiddlers - Old Time O'odham

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Episode 71: Joel Brown (Folk Punk, Crooked Tunes, and...

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2017/12/13

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Joel Brown! This interview was recorded in August at Joel’s house in Portland, OR, when I was in town to see my family. We talked about how OT is the most punk-rock genre and our mutual love for crooked tunes. But mostly we connected about the unrivaled sense of community in OT music, a topic I’ve yet to get tired of. Oh, and we play some great, notey tunes. Tunes we’ll play: Johnny Come Along Rats

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Episode 70: Chris Dalnodar & Andy McLeod (Live at the...

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2017/12/06

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Chris Dalnodar and Andy McLeod, and we recorded this interview and jam in front of a live, modestly-sized audience at the Philadelphia Podcast Festival. Tunes we’ll play: Billy in the Lowland Take Those Lips Away Peep O’ Day Brenda’s Blues Beaumont Rag The Ozark Waltz Bonus Track: Cabo Verdranos Peca Nove Buy Dalnodar & McLeod: https://dalnodarmcleod.bandcamp.com/ Buy Andy's

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Episode 69: Jake Blount and Cameron DeWhitt (Live at...

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2017/11/29

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s episode is part II of my show with Jake Blount at John Salmon’s house. Once again, this is a bit of a departure from the normal format of the show, in that there’s no interview, just tunes and tune introductions. But, also once again, I promise the music is excellent. And we’ll be back to our regular programming next week. Tunes we’ll play: Chilly Winds We’re Gonna Hunt the Buffalo Hunting the

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Episode 68: Jake Blount and Cameron DeWhitt (Live at...

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2017/11/22

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jake Blount, and today’s episode is a show that we played as a duo in Philly at John Salmon’s house. Tunes we’ll play: Rolling River Tie Your Dog Sally Gal Georgia Belles 44 Gun Over the Flatlands Dull Chisel Block Captain Bonus Track: Last of My Kind Jake’s website: http://jakeblount.com/ Buy Jake’s EP with Tatiana Hargreaves, Reparations: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/jakeblount Like and follow

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Episode 67: Candace Showalter (Rockbridge 2017)

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2017/11/15

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Candace Showalter! If you want to hear us play Three Forks of the Cheat, this week’s bonus track, go to camerondewhitt.com and click the patreon button. Once you’re there, you can sign up to regularly support the show, and one of the rewards you can sign up to receive is access to the secret, weekly bonus track blog! And once you’ve listened to this week’s bonus track, you can listen to all the

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Episode 66: Sasha Hsuczyk and Lyle Werner (Marcus...

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2017/11/08

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! These week’s friends are Sasha Hsuczyk and Lyle Werner from The Leveetoppers! When I asked what tunes they wanted to play, they said Marcus Martin tunes! It’s been awhile since we had a good old fashioned fiddler study on Get Up in the Cool, so I’m proud to bring back the edutainment. Tunes we’ll play: Happy Hollow Sandy River Jenny Ran Away in the Mud in the Night Walking the Water Polly Put the Kettle On Bonus Track:

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Episode 65: William Seeders Mosheim (Maker of Banjos...

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2017/11/01

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is William Seeders Mosheim, of Seeders Instruments and Carling and Will! We recorded this in front of a live audience at Black Creek Fiddlers’ Reunion, and I’ve been eager to share it with everyone who couldn’t make it in person! Big thanks again to Teri and the gang for hosting us! Tunes we’ll play: Fort Smith Breakdown Red Prairie Dawn Cherokee Shuffle Spotted Sandpiper Black Creek Bonus Track:

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Episode 64: Hen's Teeth (Jane Rothfield and Nathan...

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2017/10/25

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Jane Rothfield and Nathan Bontrager, AKA Hen’s Teeth! We played some old time music that I’m excited for you to hear. We recorded this interview a few months ago at Clifftop, and I’ve been saving it for a special occasion, which this certainly is, because it’s the last week of Get Up in the Cool month! Tunes we’ll play: Coondog Day Four Jig/Day Four Reel Chilly Winds Sports Are Sports Sullivan’s

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Episode 63: Hunter Walker (Dulcimer Ambassador)

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2017/10/18

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Hunter Walker from Long Point String Band, with special guest guitarist and also friend Brian Bell! Hunter plays the mountain dulcimer, an instrument I haven’t had much exposure to, so… I’m probably not qualified to say this, but I think he’s probably the best. I heard him play for the first time the night before we recorded this and I had an immediate, physically emotional reaction. The man’s music

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Episode 62: Agnes Brogeby, Erling Bronsberg, Kristian...

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2017/10/11

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! I have a lot of friends this week! Agnes Brogeby, Erling Bronsberg, Lydia Malmqvist, and Kristian Herner, from the bands The Rockridge Brothers, Six String Yada, and Friendly Neighborhood Stringband. And they’re all from Sweden! This session was thrown together pretty last minute, late in the week during Clifftop, but it was exactly what I needed after a week of pretty cerebral interviews and tunes. We basically played a

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Episode 61: Chirps Smith (Midwestern Fiddler)

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2017/10/04

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Chirps Smith! And I’m really excited to be able to say that. We recorded this over Labor Day weekend in Chicago at the Midwest Sing and Stomp; so special thanks again to Dan McDonald, AKA Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Old Lazarus’ Harp folk collective for hiring and hosting us! Tunes we’ll play: Turkey in the Straw Stump-Tailed Dog Hooker’s Hornpipe The Old Red Barn Cora Dye Hobb Dye John

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Episode 60: John Lane (Missouri Fiddle Tunes)

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2017/09/27

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s guest is John Lane, and we’re going to play some Missouri tunes for you, and tell you which tunes you know and love have been Missouri tunes all along. You may be surprised! Some of you definitely won’t be, because you’re Old Time super nerds, and I love that about you. Never change. Anyway, this episode is very good. We recorded it in Spitzer Space Telescope’s apartment in Chicago while I was in town for

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Episode 59: Lucas Pasley (First Hand Tunes)

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2017/09/20

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! I’m really excited for you to hear my interview with this week’s friend, Lucas Pasley, because Lucas has a real, personal connection to this music, and it’s rare to interview someone who studied so close to the source. Also joining us is Kilby Spencer on guitar, who’s been on the show a few times before; he’s the one who set me up with a whole bunch of interviews, including this one, and hosted me when I came down to

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Episode 58: Sonya Badigian (Four Syllables–Hard G)

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2017/09/13

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Sonya Badigian. I’m not sure exactly when I met Sonya; probably at Clifftop a few years ago, but I really got to know her when she invited me to her birthday party last fall back when she lived in Charlottesville, and I decided to go, on a whim, even though I barely knew her. Old Time music is cool like that. Tunes we’ll play: Blackfoot John Cole Judge Parker, Take These Shackles Off of Me Sally

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Episode 57: Craig Edwards (Feed Your Loa)

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2017/09/06

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Craig Edwards! We recorded this interview at the Harry Smith Frolic at the tail end of a thunderstorm, which I maintain is one of my favorite settings for recording this show. Craig is a musician who thinks about this music as much as he plays it, which, if this isn’t your first Get Up in the Cool episode, you know I really appreciate. He tells some great stories about hanging out with Ernie

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Episode 56: Libby Weitnauer (Live at Black Creek...

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2017/08/30

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Libby Weitnauer! We recorded this interview in front of a live audience at Black Creek Fiddlers’ Reunion, and I’ve been really excited to share it, because Libby is a wonderful fiddler and she’s lovely to talk to. One of my favorite things is listening to classically trained violinists who fall in love with Old Time, because they take the same dedication and discipline necessary to play classical

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