Cameron DeWhitt

Get Up in the Cool

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Get 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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Cameron DeWhitt

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Music

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getupinthecool.fireside.fm

Latest episode

Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 491: Annie and Ellie Davis (ETSU, Learning from Source Recordings, and Old Time Ownership) 21.01.2026

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Annie and Ellie Davis! We recorded this on Saturday in my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: Jimmie on the Railroad (from Fiddlin' John Carson) (0:32) Doe River (Annie Davis original) (20:25) With Kitty I’ll Go (from Jean Ritchie) (58:13) Old Cumberland (Pat Conte original) (1:04:30) Y...

Episode 490: Butterchurch (Smörkyrka) 14.01.2026

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Liam Barnes, Isabel Dammann, and Collin Stackhouse of Butterchurch, AKA Smörkyrka! We recorded this on Saturday in my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: Slängpolska efter Juringius (0:42) 1814 (8:14) Eklundapolska 1 (17:06) Slängpolska från Barsebäck (32:41) Vrigstad (39:48) BONUS TRAC...

Episode 489: Will McKay (Old Time Songs and How to Insert them into Jams) 07.01.2026

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Will McKay! We recorded this on Monday in my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: All the Good Times Are Past and Gone (0:36) I Am a Pilgrim (12:13) Booth (19:40) Tear Down the Fences (Ola Belle Reed original) (28:28) Silver Dagger (to the tune of Ola Belle Reed’s Undone in Sorrow) (41:51)...

Episode 488: Eli Broxham (Music, Pleasure, the Body, and Labor) 31.12.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Eli Broxham! We recorded this earlier in the month at his home in Nashville. Tunes in this episode: Fine Times at Our House (0:30) Old Horse and Buggy (16:54) Julianne Johnson (38:07) Shove that Pig’s Foot a Little Further into the Fire (52:26) Liza Jane (1:01:15) BONUS TRACK: Susanna Gal Visit El...

Episode 487: The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project (Sharon Gilchrist, Rachel Baiman, and Ella Korth) 24.12.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Sharon Gilchrist, Rachel Baiman, and Ella Korth, of The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project! We recorded this last week at Rachel’s home in Madison, TN. Tunes in this episode (all John Hartford originals): Takes Her Clothes Off (0:36) Not Soft Enough (11:28) Don’t Throw Her Down (21:39) Living Ups...

Episode 486: Brittany Haas (Old Time Fiddle) 17.12.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Brittany Haas! We recorded this last weekend at her home in Nashville. Tunes in this episode: Hawk is a Mule (Andrew Marlin original) (0:33) Waynesboro (9:28) Old Aunt Jenny with Her Nightcap On (24:56) Polska efter Nylands Olle (36:30) Half Past Four (41:10) BONUS TRACK: Sugar in the Coffee Buy B...

Episode 485: Get Up in the Yule (with Dear Crow) 10.12.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Yule: Holiday Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This year’s friends are Penka Jane Culevski and Brian Lindsay of Dear Crow! We recorded this the day after Thanksgiving in their home in Olympia, WA. Tunes in this episode: James Crase’s Christmas Time’s A Comin’ (0:50) Gloucestershire Wassail (16:55) Build Up the Bonfire (Zoe Mulford original) (30:28) Christmas Eve (44...

Episode 484: Joe Seamons (Songs of the Pacific Northwest) 03.12.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Joe Seamons! We recorded this last weekend at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: Cedar Mill Boys (lyrics from Hobe Kytr) (1:13) Waterbound (extra lyrics from Joe Seamons) (14:34) Give the Fiddler a Dram (extra lyrics from John Cunnick) (30:12) Same Old Wind (John and Kim Cunnick origi...

Episode 483: River Scheuerell and Alex Sturbaum (Old Time with Irish Back-Up Guitar) 26.11.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are River Scheuerell and Alex Sturbaum! We recorded this last week at Alex’s home in Olympia, WA. Tunes in this episode: Half Irish (1:03) Rocking in the Weary Land (9:15) Winderslide (20:14) Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom (29:26) Bob’s Farewell (37:47) BONUS TRACK: Gunboat Visit River Scheuerell’s w...

Episode 482: Darin Gentry (Learning from Dwight Diller) 19.11.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Darin Gentry! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: Half Past Four (0:54) Greasy String (25:10) Paddy on the Turnpike (44:00) Dwight Diller’s Cumberland Gap (50:27) Sally Ann (1:11:53) BONUS TRACK: Yew Piney Mountain Visit Darin Gentry’s website Buy to Darin...

Episode 481: Lillian Sawyer (Agendaless Music) 12.11.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Lillian Sawyer! We recorded this on Sunday at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: Walk Along John to Kansas (0:40) Johnny Court the Widow (20:52) Speed the Plow (46:24) Farewell Princeton (51:32) Come On Old Paint, Let's Get On Up That Hill (Bach Bui original) (58:42) BONUS TRACK: Five...

Episode 480: Eros Faulk (Living in Portland and Playing Irish Tunes Without Sets) 05.11.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Eros Faulk! We recorded this yesterday at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: The Fairy Reel (0:44) Lucy Farr’s (13:58) Pride of Roxbury (22:09) Donal A' Phumpa (34:16) Come West Along the Road (41:34) BONUS TRACK: Timmy Clifford’s Follow Eros Faulk on Instagram Follow River Scheuerell...

Episode 479: Golden Shoals (Live at Old Growth Old Time w/ Special Guest Host Doreen Ditties of Tradwife) 29.10.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Amy Alvey and Mark Kilianski of Golden Shoals! They recorded this a few weeks ago in front of a live audience at Old Growth Old Time in Seattle. I say they and not we because this episode of Get Up in the Cool actually had a guest host, Doreen Ditties, of Tradwife Stringband. Tunes in this episo...

Episode 478: Devin Champlin (Georgia Tunes, Corny Rags, and Cowboy Fantasies) 22.10.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Devin Champlin! We recorded this on Monday at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: Rabbit Under a Collard Leaf (0:47) Monroe Stomp (15:24) Trail to Mexico (22:40) Field of Clover (Devin Champlin original) (35:36) None of Your Business (43:40) BONUS TRACK: The Boll Weevil Drag Follow Dev...

Episode 477: George Jackson (The Old Time 100 Vol. 2 and Making Art with Fiddle Tunes) 15.10.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is George Jackson! We recorded this a couple weeks ago in Myrtle Beach. Tunes in this episode: Rye Straw (0:50) Tilman Pyeatt’s Angeline the Baker (13:46) Happy Hollow (19:30) Beef Demon (George Jackson original) (31:54) Shady Lane (48:02) BONUS TRACK: Esker Hutchins’ Cumberland Gap Join George Jacks...

Episode 476: Kelsey Sutton (Flatfooting and Ballad Singing) 08.10.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Kelsey Sutton! We recorded this in September at the Queer and Trans Old Time Music Gathering. Tunes in this episode: Sail Away Ladies (0:55) Henry King’s Reel (Trevor Stuart original) (13:43) My Dearest Dear (29:44) No Ash Will Burn (Walt Aldridge original) (44:30) Winderslide (52:43) BONUS TRACK:...

Episode 475: Wila Frank (Old Time Music Grounding) 01.10.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Wila Frank! We recorded this on Monday at her home in Nashville. Tunes in this episode: Hop High Ladies (1:01) Glory in the Meetinghouse (10:03) Taxidermy Man (Wila Frank original) (22:16) Seneca Square Dance (34:48) Lady Hamilton (43:31) BONUS TRACK: I Ain’t Got Nobody Visit Paper Wings’ website...

Episode 474: Anna RG (Old Time Ballads, Community, and Disability in Traditional Music) 24.09.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Anna RG! We recorded this on Monday over Discord, which we’ll get into more in the interview. Tunes in this episode: The Willow Tree (0:34) Rock Andy (34:40) Red Rocking Chair (57:46) The Death of Harry Simms (Aunt Molly Jackson original) (1:24:49) Won’t You Come and Sing for Me (Hazel Dickens ori...

Episode 473: Greta Hazilla (Scottish and Irish Fiddle) 17.09.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Greta Hazilla! We recorded this on Sunday at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: The Tattie Ball/Hull’s Reel (0:29) Star of Munster/Siobhan O’Donnell’s/Boys of Malin (8:02) Whiteface (Joe Thrift original) (20:36) The Sailor's Wife/Julia Delaney's (25:29) Lady Mary Ramsey Strathspey (32...

Episode 472: Call Up in the Cool No. 7 10.09.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are you all, because it’s another Call Up in the Cool episode; figured we were due for one. These are always super fun, and it’s always a bit like pulling teeth to get people to send in questions and requests, so, here’s my ask: if you think of a question and a tune request while listening to this e...

Episode 471: Morgan Harris (Old Time Fiddle) 03.09.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Morgan Harris! We recorded this on Monday at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: Jon Bekoff’s Lone Prairie (1:11) Hawk’s Got a Chicken (15:42) Sal Will You Marry Me (35:12) Darley Fulks’ Billy Lost in the Lowlands (48:27) Cookhouse Joe (53:51) BONUS TRACK: Speed the Plow Buy Morgan Har...

Episode 470: Joe Moore (Stringband Class with the Canotes and Learning Instruments on a Whim) 27.08.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Joe Moore! We recorded this on Monday at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: Nancy Dalton (1:56) Hunting the Buffalo (17:28) Cora Dye (33:45) Rose in the Morning (55:42) Ragged Coat (1:03:08) BONUS TRACK: Charleston Gals Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon Send Tax Deductible Donatio...

Episode 469: Ben Nelson (Live at Earful of Fiddle, feat. Becky Hill) 20.08.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Ben Nelson, with special guest Becky Hill! We recorded this back in June in front of a live audience of campers at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI. Watch the videos of the dancing moments of this episode! Tunes in this episode: Camp Chase (0:43) Natural Bridge Blues (15:49) Sally Sifting Sand (29:1...

Episode 468: Humbletown (Morgan Carnes, Dylan Lewis, and James Schrag) 13.08.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are the members of Humbletown: Morgan Carnes, Dylan Lewis, and James Schrag! I recorded them yesterday at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: Five Miles From Town (0:25) Last Chance / Missouri River Weave (Morgan Carnes original) (9:57) Little Pine Siskin (John Reischman original) (26:10...

Episode 467: Emily Doebler (Earful of Fiddle, Arts Funding, and Floor Kicking) 06.08.2025

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Emily Doebler! I recorded her in June at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI. Tunes in this episode: Sandy River Belle (0:50) Walter McNew’s Lost Girl (8:01) Half Irish (29:42) JP Fraley’s Dry and Dusty (44:45) Jake Phelps’ Durang’s Hornpipe (49:39) BONUS TRACK: Winderslide Watch the video of this epis...

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