Get Up in the Cool

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This is episode 100, and we have two special guest hosts today: Scotty Leach and Brian Slattery, and I’m the guest. They interviewed me and for better or worse I chose the tunes! Quick shout out to Black Creek Fiddlers’ Reunion: thanks again for hosting Get Up in the Cool for the third year in a row! I hope I can find...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Corey Husic! As the title would suggest, the conversation goes in some interesting places.  Tunes we’ll play: Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss Kitty Puss Old Buzzard The Horse Called Rover Jenny Get Around Bonus Track: Walkin’ in the Parlor Get Up in the Cool Vol. 2 is now availabe for pre-or...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is old time cellist, Leigh Rudner! Tunes we’ll play: Johnny Court the Widow Sail Away Ladies Elk River Blues Down in the Willow Garden Rockingham Cindy Bonus Track: Julianne Johnson Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Support Get Up in the Cool a year a...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s episode is a crossover, shared universe, trad music spectacular with Charlie Walden’s new podcast, Possum’s Big Fiddle Show!  This episode is a special video episode! Watch us on YouTube!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAljvnmQwFU  Tunes we’ll play: Humansville Brandywine Talk to Dinah Virg...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Ellen and Pete Vigour from Uncle Henry’s Favorites! They came up from Charlottesville for the Brandywine Revival and I was happy to be able to steal them away for a minute. You’ll get to hear their musical and romantic origin stories, some great tunes and songs, excellently performed, and an old...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Ida Mae Specker! We recorded this in front of a live audience at Black Creek Fiddlers’ Reunion a few weeks ago. Tunes we’ll play: Boil Them Cabbage Down June Apple Hanged Man’s Reel Cumberland Gap Arkansas Sheikh Bonus Track: Indian War Whoop Ida Mae Specker’s website: https://www.idamaespecker.co...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jason Cade, of Hog-Eyed Man.  Tunes we’ll play: Poplar Bluff Rye Straw Bruce Green’s Jake Phelps’ Will Stegall’s Durang’s Hornpipe Kentucky Winder Allen Sisson’s Cumberland Gap Bonus Track: Byard Ray’s Flight of the Wild Geese Hog-Eyed Man’s albums, shows, and Tune Journeys: https://www.hogey...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Dara Weiss, from All Day Breakfast Stringband! We recorded at Black Creek about a week and a half ago. Thanks for having us, Black Creek! This episode is all songs, and I’m going to try to get a better ratio of songs to tunes in the future because this was so much fun!  Songs we’ll sing: Darl...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Joe Troop from Che Apalache, your favorite latingrass band! Joe and I had what might be the most whimsical jam to ever take place on the show, punctuated by some real thoughtful and convicting conversation. I’m excited for you to hear it! Tunes we’ll play: Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase Silly Bill S...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Riley Calcagno of The Onlies, and more recently of Vivian Leva and Riley Calcagno. We recorded this interview at the East Vancouver Old Time Social about a month and a half ago in front of a live audience, and because it was part of the festival, our interview was a bit shorter than a normal episo...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Max Evans, fiddler for All Day Breakfast Stringband. We recorded this in Vancouver, BC, the morning after the first night of EVOS, the East Vancouver Old Time Social.  Tunes we’ll play: Cat Tracks Sally Coming Through Rye Cauliflower Greasy String Fine Times At Our House Jack O Diamonds Bonus...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is old time banjoist and poet Molly Tenenbaum. Tunes we’ll play: Sail Away Ladies Sikepa Inongwa Mukaye Betsy Roscoe’s Gone Such a Gittin Upstairs Bonus Track: Jack Wilson Visit Molly's website for her old time music albums and poetry:  https://mollytenenbaum.com/ Augusta Old Time Week:  ht...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Armin Barnett, another new friend from Seattle! Armin chose some really neat tunes, and he shed some more light on the history of the Seattle trad music scene. Also, he shared some stories from the revival days about some sources that weren’t as enthusiastic about old time pilgrims as Tommy Jarrel...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Emily Keene. As we started warming up, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that this would be a harmonica episode! Wild Horses at Stony Point Sally Johnson Little Dutch Girl Greasy Coat Johnny Don’t Get Drunk Fortune Bonus Track: Susanna Gal Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon:  htt...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jenny Monfore. We recorded this at her place in Seattle, a few days before the East Vancouver Old Time Social. Tunes we’ll play: Crockett’s Honeymoon Liberty Off the Corn Liquor Still Gentleman from Virginia Rymer’s Favorite Scolding Wife Boneyard Bonus Track: Over the Flatlands Support Get Up in...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Charmaine Slaven & Charlie Beck of Squirrel Butter! We recorded this at Scott Killops’ house during the Portland Old Time Music Gathering.  This episode of Get up in the Cool is sponsored by the Oregon nonprofit, Mud City Old-Time Society. They want you to join them for the third annual...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Mark Tamsula and Richard Withers, and they brought some traditional music from Southwestern Pennsylvania to share!  Tunes we’ll play: Down the River Dick’s Handspike The Snouts and Ears of America Muddy Waters Maggots in the Sheep Hide Sam Waggle’s The Snowy Hill Jimmy King Bonus Track: Bla...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is my good buddy Lyle de Vitry, and I’m excited for you to meet him if you haven’t already, because his Old Time music story is really sweet, and his fiddling is beautiful. We recorded this in my basement like, a week and a half ago! So come get it while it’s still hot! Tunes we’ll play: Cranberry Ro...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! Many of you already know this week’s friends, because they’re some of Old Time’s most active performers, educators and recording artists: Erynn Marshall and Carl Jones. We met at the Portland Old Time Music Gathering a couple months ago, and ever since, I’ve been thinking a lot about they said in our interview, both ve...

*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 friends are cellist Domenica Romagni and guitarist Morgan Harris from Philadelphia’s own Bitter Bloom. We played some great tunes I’d never played before, like Quit That Ticklin...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! I have a really special friend this week: Peter Mawanga! Peter is a long-time collaborator with former Get Up in the Cool guest Andrew Finn Magill, and when they were on their way through Philly, Finn recommended I get Peter in front of a mic. I was really nervous about it, because Peter is from Malawi, and African rhy...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Andy McLeod, and he brought with him a wonderful little history lesson on fingerstyle guitar! Tunes we’ll play: West Coast Blues Guitar Stomp Washington Blues Buckdancer’s Choice Soft Steel Piston Red Pony Upon My Return Bonus Track: Requiem for Mississippi John Hurt The Leveetoppers FB and Bandca...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Matt Brown: old time fiddler, educator, and producer! I’m going to cut to the chase: I’m releasing this now because Matt Brown produced a wonderful new album called On Big Shoulders, and there’s a kickstarter! I’m hoping that after listening to our interview and jam, you’ll be convinced that On Bi...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Devin Forest-Hines, with special guest friend Amelia Baker on guitar. We recorded this in Portland before the Old Time Gathering, about a month and a half ago. Devin chose some really neat tunes for our jam, and I’m pretty sure I’ll keep some of them, especially his version of Shady Grove, which w...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Brooks Masten. The banjo builder! Tunes we’ll play: Sandy River Belle Barlow Knife Rats Gone to Rest Rocking in the Weary Land Cumberland Gap Bonus Track: Moist and Musty Brooks' Website: https://www.brooksbanjos.com/ Contact Brooks: brooksbanjos@gmail.com Follow Brooks on Instagram: https://www.i...