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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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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 Carter Hogan)
BONUS TRACK: Golden Chain Tree
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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 On Girls We’re Going to Boston
Red Steer
Sue Truman’s Tunes and Quilts of the Oregon Trail Crankie
Sourwood Mountain
Detroit Schottische
O Susanna
Buffalo Gals
BONUS TRACK: Half Past Four
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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) (1:04:30)
Young Maiden (Ellie Davis original) (1:12:04)
BONUS TRACK: The Cuckoo (from The Coon Creek Girls)
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See Tradwife in Vancouver
and at the Bellingham Folk Festival
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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 (39:48)
BONUS TRACK: Nail that Catfish to a Tree
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See Tradwife in Vancouver
and at the Bellingham Folk Festival
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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 Sorrow) (41:51)
BONUS TRACK: Rain and Snow
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See Tradwife in Vancouver
and at the Bellingham Folk Festival
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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 Gal
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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)
Living Upstairs (38:55)
Long White Road (47:12)
BONUS TRACK: Madison
Visit John Hartford’s website to buy his fiddle tune albums
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Take Sharon Gilchrist’s Peghead Nation bluegrass mandolin course
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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 Coffee
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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)
Christmas Eve (44:42)
Taylor Kimble’s Breaking Up Christmas (49:27)
BONUS TRACK: Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake
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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 Cunnick original) (39:21)
Memphis Blues (W.C. Handy original) (55:35)
BONUS TRACK: Love, Love Alone (John Hardy original)
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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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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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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)
BONUS TRACK: Five Miles from Town
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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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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.
Tunes in this episode:
Milwaukee Blues (1:20)
Easy Money (Golden Shoals original) (7:58)
Settle Down (16:44)
Turn the Radio On (Golden Shoals original) (28:54)
The New White House Blues (Golden Shoals original + tradition) (33:34)
Blue Railroad Train (Delmore Brothers original) (42:56)
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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 Drag
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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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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)
BONUS TRACK: Western Country
Junior Appalachian Musicians
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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
Visit Paper Wings’ website
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Come see Tall Poppy String Band in Myrtle Beach
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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 Dickens original) (1:59:48)
BONUS TRACK: Lungwort (Anna RG original)
Sick center website
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Email Anna RG if you’re an old time musician with long covid: sickcenters@gmail.com
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