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 22: Alan Kaufman (The Songsmith)
November 30, 2016 08:00 - 44 minutes - 63.6 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! I hope you enjoy Alan Kaufman: Episode 2; the Songsmith. Last week we played his original tunes, this week we’re singing his original songs. Enjoy! Buy Alan and Don's CD, All in Good Time: http://peapatchmusic.com/ Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Like and follow Get Up in the Cool on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getupinthecool Like and follow Alan Kaufman's ki...
Episode 21: Alan Kaufman (The Tunesmith)
November 22, 2016 08:00 - 41 minutes - 59 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s and next week’s friend is Alan Kaufman! Also joining us is Don Stratton on guitar, who will be featured in his own episode in the near future. Alan is a tunesmith and a songsmith; while most of us make withdrawals from the traditional music bank, Alan makes regular deposits. This week’s episode is dedicated to his original fiddle tunes and next week we’ll play and sing his original songs. Alan possesse...
Episode 20: Stephen Landis (Fiddle Hermit)
November 16, 2016 08:00 - 1 hour - 97.3 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. How are you doing? It’s been a rough week. I know I’ve been feeling anxious, pent up. Some of you have been binge listening NPR and Facebooking yourselves to sleep; just leaning into to the discomfort. Others of you, like me, have been checking out. Deleting social media apps on your phone, engaging in lots of escapism; maybe overeating a bit. This week’s guest, Stephen Landis, is a close friend of mine, and I oft...
Episode 19: Alex Lacquement (Old Time Bass)
November 09, 2016 08:00 - 41 minutes - 59.3 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Alex Lacquement, and he’s a bassist! A Get Up in the Cool first, and hopefully not the last. Alex plays Old Time music with a lot of freedom, but he has a keen sense for exercising restraint. It’s pretty rare to find someone who excels at both leading and following; in music, but also, in general. Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Buy Alex Lacquemen...
Episode 17: Jane Rothfield (Chasing the Old Time Muse)
October 26, 2016 07:00 - 48 minutes - 69.6 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s featured friend is very dear to me, and I’m sure to many of you as well: fiddler, banjoist, tunesmith and vessel of the Old Time muse, Jane Rothfield. Also, joining us as accompanists are Peter Oswald on cello and Alan Carr on guitar. Between Jane’s whimsical talent, Peter’s unparalleled thoughtfulness and taste, Alan’s deep and diverse musical wisdom and, I like to think, my enabling spirit, we had qu...
Episode 18: Ron Buchanan (Square Dance Tunes)
October 26, 2016 07:00 - 44 minutes - 63.7 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. The Old Time community is of full of internal rock stars. Some of them realize how impressive they are and they act accordingly, and I’m not trying to throw shade, I think everyone appreciates a little well-earned swagger. But for every conspicuous virtuoso, there are dozens of humble, unassuming musicians who are utter revelations on their instruments. My guest today, Ron Buchanan, is an Old Time bodhisattva. He...
Episode 16: Adam Hurt (Early Galax Fiddling)
October 19, 2016 07:00 - 1 hour - 81.1 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool, Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! I’m real proud to present my jam and conversation with fiddler and melodic clawhammer banjoist extraordinaire Adam Hurt. Adam wanted to do an episode on early Galax fiddling, a subject about which he’s very knowledgeable, so I expected this to be an educational episode, and it is. What I didn’t necessarily expect was a deeply personal story about the role of Old Time in Adam’s life. I haven’t read or listened to a...
Episode 15: *SEE EPISODE NOTES* Nikos Pappas (Kentucky Fiddling)
October 12, 2016 07:00 - 45 minutes - 65 MB_UPDATE: _ This episode was recorded at the Appalachian String Band Festival in August 2016 and released on October 12, 2016. In July 2017 Pappas pled guilty (http://tennesseestar.com/2017/07/25/former-university-of-alabama-professor-pleads-guilty-to-child-pornography-charges/?fbclid=IwAR2KzoZbfzP8jt3c0TOpMcCkpFJClzwPpYApbYwkEs05vqmaqXEpwcSQ1Lk) to charges of receiving and possessing child pornography (https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/former-ua-music-professor-charged-receiving-possessing...
Episode 14: David Bass (Round Peak Fiddling)
October 05, 2016 07:00 - 46 minutes - 66.8 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool! Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week's friend is David Bass! October is Get Up in the Cool month, which means I’m sharing my conversations and jams with all of Old Time’s heaviest hitters, and in exchange, I’m asking you, my listeners, to help me share the show on Facebook, rate the show on iTunes, and generally use all your collective influence to make Get Up in the Cool break the internet. Also, if the spirit moves you, please sign up to ...
Episode 13: Jody Kruskal (Old Time Concertina)
September 28, 2016 07:00 - 1 hour - 89.3 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is concertinist Jody Kruskal. If you don't know what a concertina is, that's normal—Jody will explain everything, just know that you're in for treat. Jody Kruskal is definitely one of my favorite people to play with; when I’m wandering around at night at the festivals I listen for that unique quality that only jams with concertinas can have; it’s like you meeting a german hiker on the appalachia...
Episode 12: Luke Chohany (Baltimore Boys Part II)
September 21, 2016 07:00 - 58 minutes - 82.4 MBWelcome to episode 12 of Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s episode is the second installment in the Baltimore Boys trilogy, featuring Luke Chohany: a fantastic old time and bluegrass guitarist, and I gotta say… he really does have a lovely voice; we take a sweet little break from being rowdy boys and Luke sings a couple and it is fine, fine, fine singing. Check out Luke's new music: https://stringsound.bandcamp.com/ Support Get Up in the Cool o...
Episode 11: Alex Kramer (Alex Kramer)
September 14, 2016 07:00 - 56 minutes - 79.3 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Alex Kramer. When we recorded this I really didn’t know anything about him, but I knew that I liked his playing quite a bit and I perceived him to be a bit of an eccentric. I’ll let you be the judge of that. We were unable to come up with an official theme for our jam, but here’s a sampling of what you can look forward to in the next hour: We play Isham Monday’s Old Time Fire on the Mountain ...
Episode 10: Deb Justice (Hammered Dulcimer in Old Time Music)
September 07, 2016 07:00 - 45 minutes - 65.3 MBHi friends! I hope you’re all ready to Get Up in the Cool, by which I mean, get transported to a magical fairy land because this week for episode 10 Deb Justice brought her hammered dulcimer. Deb has her PhD in ethnomusicology, so she’s real nerdy about this stuff, which, as you should know by now, is very welcome on this show! Also, she’s quite snarky, because she has to be; there’s a social cost to playing hammered dulcimer in the old time community, which I don’t understand, because it’s a...
Episode 9: Chris Dalnodar (Sarah Armstrong Tunes)
August 31, 2016 07:00 - 50 minutes - 71.9 MBWelcome to episode 9 of Get Up in the Cool, Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt, and Friends. I’m Cameron, and my featured friend this week is fiddler Chris Dalnodar. Seeing as we both live in Philadelphia and his was the first local episode of the show, Chris thought it would be nice to do some Pennsylvania, or more specifically, Pennsatucky tunes. All of the tunes in this episode were performed by Ms. Sarah Armstrong and transcribed by ethnomusicologist Samuel Bayard outside of Derry, Penns...
Episode 8: Jake Blount (African American Fiddle Music)
August 24, 2016 07:00 - 1 hour - 90.1 MBWelcome to Episode 8 of Get Up in the Cool, Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week I’m proud to present my interview and jam with Ethnomusicologist, Fiddler, Banjo player, and BFF Jake Blount. This week’s theme is African American Fiddling! Jake has access to private recordings Mike Seeger made of prominent black fiddlers; so he learned these rare tunes and now you can hear them! That’s right, this is another Get Up in the Cool exclusive! Rise Again by Jake Blount and Emma...
Episode 7: Keith McManus (Honorary Mayor of Clifftop, actual Mayor of Greensboro, PA)
August 17, 2016 07:00 - 52 minutes - 74.2 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool, Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week, I’m proud to present Episode 7, featuring Keith McManus, honorary mayor of clifftop, actual mayor of Greensboro, Pennsylvania. Also joining us are Jim Meckley and Vince Farsatta from Keith’s band, Stewed Mulligan, on guitar and banjo, respectively, as well as Mike Hall filling in on Bass. If you want to hear the bonus track, featuring Vince Farsatta leading a rousing version of the quintessential old ti...
Episode 6: Brian Slattery (I learned this tune from...)
August 10, 2016 07:00 - 54 minutes - 76.7 MBWelcome to Get Up in the Cool, episode 6, wherein I jam and chat with renaissance man Brian Slattery. I really love the theme of this episode: Brian doesn’t learn old time tunes from source recordings, so he chose tunes that he learned from specific people, in person. In a way, Brian is more old time than my nerdiest guests (God bless them); his sources are all relational. Also, he lets the folk process do its work; Brian likes to say that he isn’t “precious” about “what the tune is.” Big tha...
Episode 5: Bach Bui (Mack Blalock Tunes via James Bryan)
August 03, 2016 07:00 - 48 minutes - 68.3 MBHello Friends! This is episode 5 of Get Up in the Cool, wherein one of my favorite people ever, Bach Bui, plays James Bryan playing Mack Blalock; I’ll let Bach explain the details. Suffice it to say, you probably haven’t heard these tunes, as they are mostly extinct in jams, and unavailable digitally. Enjoy! Click here to support Get Up in the Cool: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Recorded at Black Creek Fiddler's Reunion 2016
Episode 4: Ryland Burhans (C Tunes/Is This Tune Racist?)
July 27, 2016 07:00 - 48 minutes - 68.5 MBThis is Get Up in the Cool Episode 4: A New Hope. This is actually the first episode I recorded, and I’m so glad that my first guest was the mischievous and charismatic Ryland Burhans. He was the very first person to respond when I began to look for guests, and he’s a real chatty Cathy, so that was helpful, because I had never interviewed anyone before. If you want to support the show and access bonus content, click here: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool
Episode 3: Rachel Junior and Helen Dana La Fleur (Old Time and Bluegrass Vocal Duets)
July 20, 2016 07:00 - 52 minutes - 74.3 MBWelcome to episode 3 of Get Up in the Cool! This week’s episode features Rachel Junior and Helen Dana La Fleur of Sick Sad & Lonesome. Their specialty is Old time and Bluegrass vocal duets! This one’s chock full of purdy singin’. Here’s how great this episode is: I actually enjoyed editing this! Audio editing is usually a grueling, tedious task, but this time, it was delightful. We recorded this at the Harry Smith Frolic, under my easy-up canopy, in the woods, next to a river. sigh it was per...
Episode 2: Harry Bolick (Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s)
July 13, 2016 07:00 - 51 minutes - 72.6 MBToday we have a very special friend on the show, Harry Bolick. This year Harry released his book of transcriptions called Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s, and we’re going to play a few tunes from it. These tunes are really interesting; definitely a departure from your typical Appalachian stuff. If you want to become a patron of the show and access exclusive bonus content, go to http://patreon.com/getupinthecool Check out Harry's Website: http://mississippifiddle.com Get th...
Episode 1: Brad Kolodner (New Takes on Old Tunes)
July 05, 2016 07:00 - 1 hour - 89.3 MBPart One in the "Baltimore Boys" series, wherein I jam with the friends (and tenants) of Brad Kolodner. We discuss growing up in the household of hammered-dulcimer titan, Ken Kolodner, and play some of their best modern takes on traditional tunes. This episode features three clawhammer banjo duets, which you don't hear everyday (hopefully). There's an exciting tension to these recordings; lining up bum-diddies (the basic clawhammer stroke) is no easy task. But I think we made something specia...