Get Up in the Cool

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...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jess McInstosh; we recorded this over Thanksgiving weekend in Chicago, the day after I recorded Charlie Walden. We played some of my very favorite tunes and Jess sang the best lyrics to cider I’ve ever heard, and she introduced me to Molly Ban, which is my new favorite trad song. Good music happen...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Ken Perlman. The Ken Perlman! Tunes we’ll play: Billy in the Lowlands Folding Down the Sheets Squirrel Hunters Grover Jones Waltz Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase Bonus Track: Jerusalem Ridge Frails and Frolics: http://kenperlman.com/frails-frolics/ or CD Baby: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/kenperlman2...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Charlie Walden. We recorded this at Rupert and Karen’s house in Chicago, so... thanks, new Chicago buddies! Tunes we’ll play: Arkansas Traveler Liberty Danced All Night With A Bottle In My Hand Leather Britches The Girl I Left Behind Me Wagoner New Boston Hornpipe Constitution Hornpipe Bonus Track...

Welcome 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 Raf...

Welcome 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...

Welcome 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...

Welcome 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 progra...

Welcome 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/ B...

Welcome 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,...