Get Up in the Cool

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Betse & Clarke! We recorded this a couple weeks ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards. Tunes and songs in this episode: Going Across the Sea Walk Along John Question to Lay Your Burden Down Dry and Dusty/I Ride an Old Paint January Waltz Bonus track: Goner Visit https://w...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Shohei Tsutsumi! We recorded this about a month ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards. Tunes and songs in this episode: Pretty Polly Emily West ( https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/perspectives-african-american-history/yellow-rose-texas-ironic-origins-state-song...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Cameron Knowler! We recorded this a few weeks ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards. Tunes and songs in this episode: Old Beech Leaves/Sonora Road Tombigbee Waltz/Blake’s March Kuyina Farewell Trion Monroe’s Farewell to Long Hollow Bonus track: Norman Blake’s Done Gone Buy Guit...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Sophie Wellington, with special guest guitarist Dan Bui! We recorded this last week over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards. Tunes and songs in this episode: Bound to Have a Little Fun Marion Reece’s Cumberland Gap Sullivan’s Hollow Bugs in the Taters Granddad’s Favorite Bonus track:...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Janie Rothfield, Allan Carr, and Bill Wellington of the Beverly Street String Band! We recorded this a few weeks ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards. Tunes and songs in this episode: Breakin’ Up Christmas Jordan Is a Hard Road to Travel Porter’s Reel Theo’s Waltz Goodbye Mi...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Eden and Lukas Pool! We recorded this last week over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards. Tunes and songs in this episode: Mike in the Wilderness Hills of Mexico Sandy River Bonaparte’s Retreat Polly Put the Kettle On Bonus track: Keep on the Sunny Side Visit The Ozark Banjo Co. web...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Annie Staninec! We recorded this in person, outside my front door, socially distant back in early November. Tunes and songs in this episode: Salt River Steely Rag Old Dirty Boot (Betse Ellis original) All the Way Across Texas (Paul Schelasky original) I’ve Always Been a Rambler Bonus track: Elzic’...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Isa Burke! We recorded last week over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards. Tunes and songs in this episode: What Will We Do If We Have No Money Golden Ticket Bad Guy Rymer’s Favorite Wake Up Bonus track: Hares on the Mountain Visit Isa Burke’s website to subscribe to her newsletter, i...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Alicia Jardine! We recorded in December over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards. Tunes and songs in this episode: Halling efter Tuven Bockeluras Polska Vals efter Pål Karl Cindy Scotchman Scotchman Bonus track: Red Rocking Chair Like and Follow Happy Heartaches on Facebook: https://w...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Ken Kolodner! We recorded in December over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards. Tunes and songs in this episode: Oklahoma Rooster Coleman’s March Southern Cross Cowboy Waltz / Down Home Waltz Lonesome John Bonus track: North Carolina Breakdown Ken Kolodner’s website: https://www.kenko...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Brandon Olszewski! We recorded this in October, 6 feet apart in Melissa Takush’s backyard in Eugene, OR. Tunes and songs in this episode: Lawry’s Reel New Five Cents Pig Ankle Rag Duck’s Eyeball Wish I’d Stayed in the Wagon Yard Bonus track: Cincinnati Rag Breakers Yard’s: https://breakersyardmusi...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Melissa Takush! We recorded this in October, 6 feet apart in her backyard in Eugene, OR. Tunes and songs in this episode: Roscoe Gentleman From Virginia Waynesboro Skagit (Gabrielle Macrae original) In the Moment (Jane Rothfield original) Bonus track: I’ll Reap What I’ve Sown (Rhys Jones original)...

*note: Morgan Harris is called by a different name and different pronouns in this episode because they've since changed both. Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Morgan Harris! We recorded last month over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards. Tunes and songs in this episode: Sid Hemphill’s Rye Straw Lost Girl High Up On...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Kathleen Parks! We recorded last month over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards. Tunes and songs in this episode: Willow Creek Other Than Yourself $7.50 to Denmark Spider Shoe Long Hot Summer Day Bonus track: Blue Yodel Number Three Visit Kathleen Parks’ website for fiddle lessons, re...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Molly McBride! We recorded this in October in Melissa Takush’s backyard in Eugene, Oregon, 6 feet apart. Tunes in this episode: Goodbye My Honey I’m Gone Brass Town Byard Ray’s Polly Put the Kettle On Elderberry, Maple, and a Cow’s Horn Benton Flippen’s Bile Them Cabbages Down Bonus track: Jake’s...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! It’s the final week of Get Up in the Cool month; the month where I release some extra-special interviews I’ve been saving in hopes that you’ll support the show. This week’s friend is Adam Hurt! We recorded this a few weeks ago over skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards. Tunes in this episode: Bowback Horses...

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 saved some very special interviews hoping you’ll be moved to support the show. This week’s friend is songwriter, old time musician, and banjoist Kaia Kater. We recorded this last month over skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards. Tunes in this episode: Little...

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; I’ve been saving some very special interviews in hopes that you’ll be moved to support the show. This week’s friend is Kim Johnson, banjo player for legendary West Virginia fiddlers such as Frank George, Lester McCumbers, and Wilson Douglas. Also joining us on the fiddl...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! It’s the first week Get Up in the Cool month; I’ve been saving up some very exciting interviews in hopes that you’ll be moved to support the show. Which is why this week’s friend is ballad singer and banjoist Elizabeth LaPrelle. We recorded this last month over skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards. Songs in...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Armand Aromin and Benedict Gagliardi of The Vox Hunters! We recorded this last week over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards. Tunes in this episode: Magtanim ay di Biro (Planting Rice is No Joke) Chotis Vintarina Prelude Etnika The Violin Maker’s Alphabet Have You Got a Girlfriend Y...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Linda Danielson! We recorded this last weekend in person, socially distanced, in her carport in Eugene, Oregon. Tunes in this episode: Spruce Topper’s Polka Soldier’s Joy My Dad’s Polish Wedding Waltz Little Burnt Potato Sacramento Mountain Rag Bonus track: Paddy on the Handcar “Live and Kickin’”...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Karen Celia Heil! We recorded this last week over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards. Tunes in this episode: Possum Up a Gum Stump Clyde Davenport’s Blackberry Blossom The Kimble Family Bill Cheatham Marion Reece’s Jimmy Sutton Angeline the Baker Bonus track: Jim Bowles’ Calico Visit...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Alex Sturbaum! We recorded this a couple days ago in front of my house, over 6 feet apart. Tunes and songs in this episode: Boxing Day Big Black Bird Like You Would / Kitty’s Gone A-Clinking / The Buffet Double Song for McConnell Tom Paine’s Bones Stand Steady Bonus track: Minnie White’s / Hughie...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Rachel Dunaway! We recorded this a couple weeks ago over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards. Tunes in this episode: L&N Rag Ashland Breakdown Logan County Blues Caroll County Blues Jeff Sturgeon Bonus track: Hell and Scissors Email Rachel Dunaway for banjo lessons: racheldunaway6...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Ian Boone! We recorded this in person on Monday evening on my front porch, 6 feet apart with masks. Tunes in this episode: Josie-O Old Aunt Jenny With Her Nightcap On Matokie Slaughter’s Georgie Lee Sexton’s Cumberland Gap Duck on a Mountain Bonus track: Matokie Slaughter’s Big Eyed Rabbit Follow...