Get Up in the Cool
422 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 196 ratingsGet 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 72: Scott Mathis and Linda Askew (Music from the Tohono O'odham Nation)
December 20, 2017 08:00 - 46 minutes - 66.1 MBWelcome 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'od...
Episode 71: Joel Brown (Folk Punk, Crooked Tunes, and Community)
December 13, 2017 08:00 - 55 minutes - 78 MBWelcome 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 Alo...
Episode 70: Chris Dalnodar & Andy McLeod (Live at the Philadelphia Podcast Festival)
December 06, 2017 08:00 - 43 minutes - 61.4 MBWelcome 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 music: https://...
Episode 69: Jake Blount and Cameron DeWhitt (Live at John Salmon's House PART II)
November 29, 2017 08:00 - 47 minutes - 67.2 MBWelcome 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 Buffalo...
Episode 68: Jake Blount and Cameron DeWhitt (Live at John Salmon's House)
November 22, 2017 08:00 - 51 minutes - 73.2 MBWelcome 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 fol...
Episode 67: Candace Showalter (Rockbridge 2017)
November 15, 2017 08:00 - 48 minutes - 68.4 MBWelcome 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 t...
Episode 66: Sasha Hsuczyk and Lyle Werner (Marcus Martin Tunes)
November 08, 2017 08:00 - 54 minutes - 77.4 MBWelcome 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 T...
Episode 65: William Seeders Mosheim (Maker of Banjos and Tunes)
November 01, 2017 07:00 - 57 minutes - 81.3 MBWelcome 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 Trac...
Episode 64: Hen's Teeth (Jane Rothfield and Nathan Bontrager)
October 25, 2017 07:00 - 58 minutes - 82.6 MBWelcome 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 Sull...
Episode 63: Hunter Walker (Dulcimer Ambassador)
October 18, 2017 07:00 - 44 minutes - 64.1 MBWelcome 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’...
Episode 62: Agnes Brogeby, Erling Bronsberg, Kristian Herner, Lydia Malmqvist (My New Swedish Pals)
October 11, 2017 07:00 - 57 minutes - 81.7 MBWelcome 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 p...
Episode 61: Chirps Smith (Midwestern Fiddler)
October 04, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 93.6 MBWelcome 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 ...
Episode 60: John Lane (Missouri Fiddle Tunes)
September 27, 2017 07:00 - 56 minutes - 79.4 MBWelcome 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...
Episode 59: Lucas Pasley (First Hand Tunes)
September 20, 2017 07:00 - 58 minutes - 82.1 MBWelcome 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...
Episode 58: Sonya Badigian (Four Syllables–Hard G)
September 13, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 98.1 MBWelcome 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 S...
Episode 57: Craig Edwards (Feed Your Loa)
September 06, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 85 MBWelcome 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 ...
Episode 56: Libby Weitnauer (Live at Black Creek Fiddlers' Reunion)
August 30, 2017 07:00 - 44 minutes - 62.9 MBWelcome 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 class...
Episode 55: Hilarie Burhans (Queen of Burhania)
August 23, 2017 07:00 - 58 minutes - 83.2 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is clawhammer banjoist, restaurateur, and queen of Burhania, Hilarie Burhans. We recorded this episode at the Brandywine Revival Festival, and I’m really excited for you to hear it! Hilarie is one of my very favorite humans; she’s charming and generous and hilarious, and I think she’s responsible in no small part for the quality of the culture of Old Time Music, which is mostly why I play, so I ...
Episode 54: Rusty and Nancy Neithammer (Twin Fiddling/Hanging Out with Tommy)
August 16, 2017 07:00 - 41 minutes - 59.9 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Rusty and Nancy Neithammer! I’ve been trying to get them on the show for quite a while, because they’re the best. And they have awesome stories about hanging out with Tommy Jarrell and Bruce Greene! Tunes we’ll play: Cindy Moonlight Give the Fiddler a Dram Neithammer Honeymoon Polly’s Mountain Kettle Bonus Track: Aldeline Waltz Buy Cliffhangers' CD's: http://www.5-string.com/ Buy tickets to...
Episode 53: Seth Swingle (Old Banjo Tunes in Rare Tunings)
August 09, 2017 07:00 - 53 minutes - 75.2 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This is a very special episode of Get Up in the Cool, because my guest is Seth Swingle. We recorded this interview at Clifftop last year, very late in the festival. Seth was actually my eighth recording that week, so when he said he wanted to showcase solo banjo music in weird tunings, I said, so you mean I don’t have to learn any tunes? I can just sit and listen to you??? I was very excited. Tunes we’ll play Shor...
Episode 52: Joe Showalter (Tunes from Two Gun Terry)
July 26, 2017 07:00 - 52 minutes - 74.1 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Joe Showalter. I stopped by his house a couple months ago at the end of my first Get Up in the Cool tour, and it was really nice to get to know him a little better and play one on one. We talked about religion and music, and the tension that exists there sometimes. Specifically, the line between worship and performance, which, incidentally, I think, is a false dichotomy that is also present i...
Episode 51: Jake Blount (Reparations)
July 19, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 93.9 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s guest is one of my dearest friends in the Old Time community, Jake Blount, and this is his second appearance on Get Up in the Cool. I love having Jake on the show, because he’s an incredible musician, and he’s uniquely insightful and sometimes incisive about the roots of this music and the way people perceive it and the discrepancies between the two. Jake actually throws a lot of shade in this intervie...
Episode 50: Spencer & Rains (Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas Fiddle Tunes)
July 12, 2017 07:00 - 57 minutes - 82 MBWelcome to episode 50 of Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. That’s right! 50 episodes! Technically 53, but 3 of those are rebroadcasts or best of episodes, so they don’t count. And who better to feature on Get Up in the Cool’s 50th episode than Tricia Spencer and Howard Rains, experts in the field of traditional Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas fiddle tunes, fantastic visual artists, and, perhaps, Old Time’s cutest couple. Tunes we’ll play: Judge Parker Take These ...
Episode 49: Palmer and Greg Loux (Old Time Power Couple/Run of the Mill String Band)
July 05, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 82.7 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Palmer and Greg Loux from Run of the Mill String Band! I got to know them at my first clifftop back in 2014, when I gave their son’s friend a ride and ended up camping with them. I remember sitting in on a jam with them and not being able to keep up. Palmer has a taste for notey melodies with less internal repetition than your typical old time tune. Basically kryptonite for a banjo player l...
Episode 48: Scotty Leach (Keeps Coming Back to Old Time)
June 28, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 87.3 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Scotty Leach! Scotty was one of the first names on my list when I started asking people to be on my show, because he was basically the first friend I made at my first Clifftop. That was almost 4 years ago, and I think playing with Scotty that week was yet another point of no return for me and my relationship with Old Time music. Scotty’s fiddling… the best way I can think to describe it is “f...
Episode 47: Patrick Heavner (Pisgah Banjo Co.)
June 21, 2017 07:00 - 56 minutes - 80.3 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Patrick Heavner, the CEO and founder of Pisgah Banjo Company. If you’re a banjo nerd, this episode’s for you: we talk a lot of shop. I’m actually pretty ignorant when it comes to how banjos are made, so it was really cool to talk to someone who’s passionate about this whole other aspect of Old Time music. I sometimes forget that someone made my instrument, and they’re actually very responsibl...
Episode 46: Ethan Hawkins (If You're Not Having Fun, You're Not Doing it Right)
June 14, 2017 07:00 - 50 minutes - 71.3 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool, Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is one of my favorite flat-pickers, songwriters, and old time musicians, Ethan Hawkins. I met him at Mt. Airy a couple years ago, and immediately got a big ol’ crush on him. He’s a very good guitarist, with a dreamy voice, and he’s a very animated performer, so I’m really glad I got him on video. Oh, did I not mention that? Check out Get Up in the Cool's Facebook page and you'll find some videos...
Episode 45: Kilby Spencer (Old Time Hand-Me-Downs)
June 07, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 87.3 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Kilby Spencer, and he’s kind of my new favorite fiddler. I wasn’t able to fully enjoy his fiddling while playing with him, because I was really concentrated on trying keep up, and not make a fool out of myself. But I just finished editing our interview and jam, and my jaw was on the floor the whole time. Kilby’s awesome. And, the best part is, I didn’t even get a chance to be intimidated, bec...
Episode 44: Mark Simos (The Other Side of Complexity)
May 31, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 94.8 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Mark Simos, fiddler and professor at Berklee College of Music. I visited him in his home back in February when I took my Boston trip. I didn’t know Mark at all prior to our session, but both Mark Kilianski and Adam Hurt recommended him, so my expectations were high. And I wasn’t disappointed! Mark’s a fantastic fiddler and he has a lot of ideas about what music is and why it’s important; trad...
Episode 43: Spencer Family and Friends (Living Links to the Source)
May 24, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 89.9 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This episode features a lot of my new friends! Thornton, Emily and Kilby Spencer, Kelly Brieding and Debbie Bramer. Kilby Spencer reached out to me a while back with some recommendations for guests, so I crashed at his and Kelly’s place in Crumpler, North Carolina, and he lined up some amazing guests for me, including Shohei Tsutsumi, whose episode aired last week. Before my trip, I hadn’t heard a lot of this s...
Episode 42: Shohei Tsutsumi (Old Time in Japan/Appalachian Studies)
May 17, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 93.4 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Shohei Tsutsumi. He recently moved from Osaka, Japan, to Boone, North Carolina for an Appalachian Studies program at Appalachian State. We talk about what led him to do so, as well as the thriving Bluegrass and Old Time scene in Japan. Also, Dave Wood, the academic program director of Shohei’s program, joins us on guitar. Subscribe to Shohei's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Ol...
Episode 41: Tim Rowell (Will Teach You How to Play Banjo)
May 10, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 93.6 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! I hope you’re ready for more banjo duets, because this week’s friend is Tim Rowell! Tim’s a fantastic clawhammer banjoist, tune collector, and educator, and we had an awesome time hanging out in Bach Bui’s apartment in Boston. And Bach joins us for most of the tunes, kind of playing fiddle back up while we take the melody; it’s awesome. Tunes we’ll play: Spider Bit the Baby Stump-tailed Dolly Lost Girl Glory in th...
Episode 40: Liana Moskowitz (Whose Music Is This Anyway?)
May 03, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 84.1 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! Today’s friend is one of my favorite Philly fiddlers, Liana Moskowitz. Liana started the most recent incarnation of West Philly’s bi-monthly jam on the 2nd floor of the Gojjo Ethiopian Bar & Restaurant, and regularly plays Cajun music at Fiume, which, incidentally is also on the 2nd floor of an Ethiopian establishment in West Philly. And she’s one of the founders of the West Philly Square Dance, which is, like, bl...
Episode 39: Aaron Olwell (Juggling Traditions)
April 26, 2017 07:00 - 39 minutes - 57 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Aaron Olwell! We recorded in Charlottesville, Virginia on my recent trip South. Aaron is a fantastic fiddler and clarinetist, and I’m sure he plays lots of other things too. In fact, I think we met in a jam at my first Clifftop, and he was flatfooting while playing a double slide whistle. That was years ago, and it was the middle of the night, but I’m pretty sure that was Aaron. Anyway, there...
Episode 38: Ruth Rappaport and Ben Wetherbee (Old Time Family Band)
April 19, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 85 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Ruth Rappaport and Ben Wetherbee. We recorded our jam in Bach Bui’s apartment during my Patreon-funded Boston trip a couple months ago. Ruth and Ben are a delightful mother and son duo! It was super fun and inspiring to hang out with them and imagine forming my own family band some day. I’m excited for you to hear it! Tunes we’ll play: Rueben’s Train New River Train Lee Highway Blues Which ...
Episode 37: Sophie Enloe (Portland Old Time Part II)
April 12, 2017 07:00 - 58 minutes - 82.3 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is fiddler Sophie Enloe; we recorded this at her house in Portland when I was home for Christmas. She chose a bunch of bonkers tunes that I fully intend on actually learning someday. Especially Sift the Meal and Save the Bran. Tunes we’ll play: Cold Frosty Morning Bonaparte’s Retreat Christmastime in the Morning Sift the Meal and Save the Bran Lost Girl Bonus Track: Bile Dem Cabbage Down Support...
Episode 36: Gabrielle Macrae (Old Time in Portland, OR)
April 05, 2017 07:00 - 46 minutes - 66.1 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Gabrielle Macrae, of The Horsenecks and The Macrae Sisters! The Horsenecks (mention CD and UK tour): http://www.horsenecks.com/ Old Sledge by The Macrae Sisters: https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/macraesisters Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool
Episode 35: Dotty Moore (Suzuki Refugee)
March 29, 2017 07:00 - 54 minutes - 77.3 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Dotty Moore on fiddle and special guest accompanist, Jordan Rast, on guitar. Dotty didn’t have any particular theme in mind, so we threw a set together last minute, which I think added a pretty fun dynamic to the music and conversation. On the spectrum between jam and performance, this episode leans jam, but it’s a really hot jam! Which I think is the best case scenario for Get Up in the Co...
Episode 34: Chris Dalnodar (Ragtime Apologist)
March 15, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 86.2 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is fiddler Chris Dalnodar, and he brought with him a very serious topic: people should learn to play rags at old time jams and not be afraid of flat keys. And, you guys, I think he makes a pretty compelling case. Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool
Episode 33: Jordan Rast (Growing Up Old Time)
March 08, 2017 08:00 - 1 hour - 88.2 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is fiddler and songwriter Jordan Rast. Jordan grew up going to clifftop, and he shared a lot of fun stories that I vicariously enjoyed. Most people sort of stumble upon or wander into Old Time Music, but Jordan was raised on the stuff. It’s always interesting, hearing people like Jordan talk about this music; he’s not a fanatic, like most folks who find Old Time as adults, like me. To Jordan, it...
Episode 32: Carl Baron (The Fiddlers of Central West Virginia)
March 01, 2017 08:00 - 1 hour - 88.3 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s episode is very special to me; it’s my interview and jam with Carl Baron. My friend Stephen Landis, former and probably future guest of the show, taught me my first tunes, but Carl Baron hosted my first old time jam, and that’s when, for better or worse, my life took a turn. He’s another one of those people that I’ve spent a lot of time with and barely know, because we’re too busy playing tunes to talk...
Episode 31: Deb Shebish (Joe Dawson's Fiddle Tunes)
February 22, 2017 08:00 - 59 minutes - 84.2 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Deb Shebish, and she’s brought with her a handful of tunes and sweet memories of the late fiddler from Bloomington, Indiana, Joe Dawson. As transmitters of the tradition, we’re simultaneously channeling our sources, while becoming the source for someone else. Joe Dawson’s impact wasn’t far reaching, but it was deep, and thanks to good, faithful people like Deb Shebish, his influence is just g...
Episode 30: Don Stratton (Original Northern Flavor)
February 15, 2017 08:00 - 44 minutes - 63 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is fiddler Don Stratton, and he has some original old time tunes to share with a northern flavor. We recorded this in Alan Kaufman’s cabin during the Fiddlin’ Bear festival at Lake Genero in the Poconos; making it the final installment of that day’s marathon recording session. Most of the tunes in this episode are featured in Don’s CD with former guest of the show, Alan Kaufman, so if you want ...
Episode 29: Ludvig Drevfjäll (Old Time Infatuation)
February 08, 2017 08:00 - 47 minutes - 67.7 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is the award winning clawhammer banjoist, old time fanatic, and fiddler, Ludvig Drevfjäll. I’m really glad I had the opportunity to ask him about his story, because usually when we get together, we get straight to banjo playing and there’s not a lot of talking. Sign up to support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool
Episode 28: Trip Henderson (Old Time Harmonica)
February 01, 2017 08:00 - 56 minutes - 80.5 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This episode is a great departure from the fiddling you can expect to hear on this program, because my guest is Trip Henderson and his bag of harmonicas. We talk about the harmonica’s role in old time music, which led Trip to invent my new favorite word, which is: banjoistically. Also, we talk briefly about the Old Time community’s brief love affair with Tim Kaine, which in retrospect is just bittersweet to hear. ...
Episode 27: David Deacon (Kentucky Fiddle Tunes)
January 25, 2017 08:00 - 53 minutes - 76.3 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is David Deacon, and he curated a nice handful of Kentucky fiddle tunes for us to play! We recorded this at the Brandywine Revival Festival last summer, hidden away up the path near a still pond with a lot of mosquitoes. You can still hear some distant jams from the other side of the holler, and a very alarming bullfrog makes an appearance. Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.pat...
Episode 26: Bertram Levy (Pioneer of Melodic Clawhammer Banjo)
January 18, 2017 08:00 - 45 minutes - 65.5 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is one of the first people I met at my first ever Clifftop, melodic clawhammer banjoist Bertram Levy. We recorded this late in the week at the Keith McManus tent, so there’s a lot of background noise, but I think it makes a nice, bustling ambiance for our competing bum-diddies. And trigger warning: this episode is all banjo duets. Check out Bertram's website: http://bertramlevy.com/ Support Get ...
Episode 25: Andrew Finn Magill (Live at The Random Tea Room)
January 11, 2017 08:00 - 50 minutes - 72.2 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is the virtuosic and eclectic fiddler, Andrew Finn Magill. We recorded this interview and jam in front a live audience at The Random Tea Room in Philadelphia back in November. Finn is an extremely talented musician with a seemingly bottomless well of interesting stories and experiences. So, he’s basically a dream guest for Get Up in the Cool. And I don’t want to spoil anything in the intro, so I...
Episode 24: Gordon Arnold (Old Time Cello)
December 14, 2016 08:00 - 55 minutes - 78.6 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This is the last episode of 2016! As awful as this year has been, what with the fascists and the celebrity deaths, I’ve had such a great time recording this show; I think it became a real coping mechanism for me, honestly. I hope it’s been helpful for you, too. This week I’m sharing my jam and chat with Old Time cellist, Gordon Arnold. Gordon is super adventurous, which you know I love, but he’s also very rooted i...
Episode 23: Rachel Eddy (Inclusivity and Jam Etiquette)
December 07, 2016 08:00 - 1 hour - 90.6 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Rachel Eddy! She wanted to talk about inclusivity and etiquette in Old Time sessions, which we sometimes touch on in this show, but Rachel approaches the topic with a lot more nuance and intention, and I really appreciated what she had to say! Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: http://patreon.com/getupinthecool/ Rachel’s website: http://www.racheleddymusic.com/ Ken and Brad’s new album...