Get Up in the Cool

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! It’s the fourth and final week of Get Up in the Cool month; every year I post some extra special interviews in hopes that you’ll be moved to support the show. This week’s extra special guest is George Jackson! We recorded this about a month ago at IBMA in Raleigh, North Carolina. Tunes and songs in this episode: Peter...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! It’s the third week of Get Up in the Cool month; I’m posting some extra special interviews in hopes that you’ll be moved to support the show. This week’s extra special guests are Gus and Huck Tritsch of The Wicked Chicken! We recorded this last month at IBMA in Raleigh, North Carolina. Tunes and songs in this episode:...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! It’s the second week of Get Up in the Cool month; where I share some extra special interviews in hopes that you’ll be moved to support the show. This week’s extra special guest is Anh Phung! You may know her as the flautist from Twisted Pine. We recorded this last month at IBMA in Raleigh, North Carolina. Tunes and son...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! It’s the first week of this year’s Get Up in the Cool month; I just got back from IBMA where I recorded some extra special interviews for October in hopes that you’ll be moved to support the show. Which is why this week’s friend is Tristan Scroggins. We recorded this last week in Raleigh, North Carolina. Tunes and song...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Anna Sandys. We recorded this in her backyard last week in Portland, Oregon. Tunes and songs in this episode: The Bb Rag (0:18) Sunset Waltz (13:45) Cotton Picker’s Rag (25:28) Chinese Breakdown (38:40) Tanner’s Rag (51:05) Bonus track: Hawkins Rag Visit the Sandys Violin website: http://www.sandy...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Vivian Williams. We recorded this in her home a couple weeks ago in Seattle, Washington. Tunes and songs in this episode: Tennessee Grey Eagle (0:40) The Unfortunate Dog (25:45) St. Adele’s Reel (44:22) Pete’s Breakdown (1:06:24) Peter Barnes (1:11:25) Frog Heaven (1:18:53) Bonus track: Peekaboo W...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Heidi Kristenson. We recorded this back in August at the Centralia Campout in Centralia, Washington. Tunes and songs in this episode: Needlecase (0:50) Spotted Pony (12:02) Boys Them Buzzards are Flying (23:41) Dull Chisel (34:18) Roscoe (41:18) Bonus track: Old Molly Hare Support Get Up in the Co...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is River Scheuerell. We recorded this a few weeks ago at the Centralia Campout in Centralia, Washington. Tunes and songs in this episode: James Roberts’ Tune (0:39) Lost Girl (20:10) Highlander’s Farewell (29:48) Karen Collins’ Tune (39:39) Billy in the Lowground (46:15) Bonus track: Bound to Have a...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Robyn Burns. We recorded this a few weeks ago at the Centralia Campout in Centralia, Washington. Tunes and songs in this episode: Maiden Rock Waltz (0:38) Possum on a Rail (10:57) Folding Down the Sheets (16:22) Boll Weevil (28:12) Katie Dear (33:26) Bonus track: Chinese Breakdown Buy Robyn Burns’...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Brian Zimmerman. We recorded this a couple weeks ago at the Centralia Campout in Centralia, Washington. Tunes and songs in this episode: Shipping Port (1:15) Five Miles To Town (22:36) Jack of Diamonds (37:43) The Fox Chase (49:18) Give the Fiddler a Dram (58:09) Bonus track: Centerville Visit No...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Lillian and Adam Kology. We recorded in July at the Harry Smith Frolic in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Tunes and songs in this episode: La Grondeuse (1:07) Oak Ridge Stomp (17:22) Wimbush Rag (25:37) Old Mother Flanagan (41:44) Sand Lake (via Crooked Jades) (48:51) Bonus track: Salty River Reel Vi...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Wendy Robinson and Phil Watson. We recorded this last month at the Harry Smith Frolic in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Tunes and songs in this episode: What Made the Wildcat Wild (1:39) Jon Bekoff’s Little Birdie (15:09) Cotton Baggin’ (24:09) Blackberry Waltz (35:03) Crockett’s Honeymoon (47:47) B...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Bach Bui and Alex Kramer. We recorded this at the Harry Smith Frolic in Greenfield, Massachusetts a few weeks ago. Tunes and songs in this episode: Blue Goose (in F) (1:36) Old Yeller Dog Went Trotting Through the Meetinghouse (in F) (15:06) Ghost Woman Blues (33:53) High Up on Tug (in F) (46:54...

It's a Basic Folk feed drop! Subscribe to Basic Folk wherever you get podcasts, and visit them online at http://basicfolk.com/ . Mali Obomsawin is the mighty bassist/songwriter/singer from Lula Wiles , whose musical talents run tandem to her activist spirit. She really had no choice in the matter, seeing that her parents met through their advocacy for Abenaki and First Nations sovereignty battles....

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Em Hammond (with special guest musician Rachel Eddy!). We recorded this in their home in the DC area a few weeks ago. Tunes and songs in this episode: Kansas City Reel (1:37) Newt Payne’s Tune (13:18) If I Needed You (34:28) My Bucket’s Got A Hole In It (46:50) Billy in the Lowground (55:22) Bonus...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Nicole Ball and Max Rainwater. We recorded this in my front yard a few weeks ago. Tunes and songs in this episode: Florida Blues (1:34) Kenny Baker’s Sail Away Ladies (22:26) Old Yeller Dog Come Trottin Through the Meetinghouse (35:13) Three In One Two-Step (45:26) Beaumont Rag (54:06) Bonus tra...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Dear Crow, Penka Jane Culevski and Brian Lindsay! We recorded this back in June in Olympia, Washington. Tunes and songs in this episode: Hollow Poplar (2:32) Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór / Hunting the Buffalo (18:11) Liza Jane / Indian Corn (30:40) Waiting for the Ferry with the Boys (43:03) The Band Waltz...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is McKain Lakey! We recorded this on Monday in my front yard. Tunes and songs in this episode: Sugar in My Coffee (2:18) The Silk Merchant’s Daughter (17:22) Johnny On the Water (31:33) I Have Found the Way (40:13) Cicadas (1:01:19) Bonus track: Bowling Green Visit McKain Lakey’s website to buy her a...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Palmer T. Lee! We recorded this a few weeks ago in Olympia, Washington. Tunes and songs in this episode: Ducks on the Pond (0:41) Glory in the Meetinghouse (14:36) When First Unto this Country (24:40) Elk River Blues (31:02) Tennessee Politics (40:59) Bonus track: Roscoe’s Gone Visit The Lowest Pa...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Jesse Partridge! We recorded this a week and a half ago in Olympia, Washington. Tunes and songs in this episode: Remember What You Told Me (0:40) Bearen Dance (13:27) Sweet Nell (Rob Pine and Jim Mullany) (23:43) The Talencore (39:29) Crossing the Little Doe River (44:58) Bonus track: Kennesaw Mou...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Emily McHugh and Donald Palardy of String & Shadow! We recorded this on Sunday in Olympia, Washington, in a barn at the house of Emily Teachout, Erik Neatherlin and former guest of the show Ruby Neatherlin of the Sassafras Sisters. Tunes and songs in this episode: Goddess (1:47) Shady Grove...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Judy Hyman and special guest accompanist Jeff Claus! We recorded this about a week and a half ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards. Tunes and songs in this episode: Sandy River (2:53) Norman Edmonds’ Old Cotton Eyed Joe (15:25) Norman Edmonds’ Ship in the Clouds (31:35) Long...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are The Wules, Christina Osborn and Michael Cullinan! I recorded them yesterday in my front yard, no masks, not socially distant, because we’re all vaccinated. Tunes and songs in this episode: Old Time Billy in the Lowground (1:07) Roscoe (9:59) Turkey Tracks (23:22) L&N Rag (32:12) Farewell Tri...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is E.V. Sheldon! I recorded them a couple weeks ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards. Tunes and songs in this episode: The Death of John Henry (1:51) The Tongue Unknown (17:17) My Time Done Come (32:56) Cluck Ol’ Hen (51:23) Lily Brown (1:04:58) Bonus track: Annachie Gordon Conta...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Ethan Hawkins! We recorded this a couple weeks over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards. Tunes and songs in this episode: Come On Old Paint, Let's Get On Up That Hill (0:45) Sweet Marie (13:33) Maple on the Hill (21:56) Money in Both Pockets (30:48) Rose Had Her New Calf Late Last Spr...