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 Evie Ladin! I recorded her in June at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI. Tunes in this episode: Last of Kelsey (Clayton Schanilec original) (0:28) Sidna Myers Forkey Deer/Forked Deer (25:42) Mistreated Mama/Yew Piney Mountain (30:48) Glory (Evie Ladin original)/Valley Forge (36:46) Keep Making Memori...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Gray Dawson! I recorded them in June at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI. Tunes in this episode: The Crooked Stovepipe (0:51) Little Burnt Potato (08:47) Pays De Haut (23:25) The Saint Lawrence Jig (42:23) Sheenboro Hop (46:43) BONUS TRACK: Spootiskerry Visit Gray’s website Follow them on Instagram...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Ruby John! I recorded her in June at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI. Tunes in this episode: Fox Family Reel (Andy de Jarlis original) (0:38) Sourgrass and Granite (Brian Pickell original) (32:09) The Green Eyed G**** (Budd Greenman original) (53:58) Golden Ticket (Eric Merrill original) (1:21:13)...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Afton Coombs! I recorded them in June at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI. Here's the link to the YouTube playlist of tunes from this episode! Tunes in this episode: Devil in the Strawstack (1:05) John Lusk’s Apple Blossom (13:33) The Blackest Crow (26:39) Cookhouse Joe (39:37) Great Big Taters (46:...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Kelly Madewell and Iris Cooke, also known as Lazy Susan! I recorded them last week at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI. Tunes in this episode: Farewell Trion (0:34) Cranberry Rock (10:24) Five Miles from Town (27:46) I’ve Endured (Ola Belle Reed original) (36:56) Trouble in Mind (41:11) BONUS TRAC...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Richie Stearns & Rosie Newton, also known as Richie & Rosie! I recorded them back in April at the Baltimore Old Time Music Festival. Tunes in this episode: Five Miles to Town (0:33) Hang Me (6:35) Glory in the Meetinghouse (18:08) I Am With You Always (Richie & Rosie) (27:02) BONUS T...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Bruce Ling, with special guest guitarist Austin Benzing! I recorded them in May at the Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend in Remus, Michigan. Tunes in this episode: Fiddle’s Waltz (Bruce Ling original) (0:35) Crawdad Shuffle (Bruce Ling original) (18:10) High River Blues (Bruce Ling original) (35:...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Ben Traverse! I recorded them in May at the Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend in Remus, Michigan. Tunes in this episode: Raging Canal (Sent My Brown Jug Downtown) (0:50) Lost on the Lady Elgin (10:08) Who Feeds Us Beans (23:43) Beaver Dam Road (40:55) Shenandoah (47:09) BONUS TRACK: Birch Grove V...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Micah Ling! We recorded this at her home in Lansing, MI, then we ran out of time, and we finished at Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend. Songs and tunes in this episode: Le Valse de la Rebec (Bruce Ling original) (1:05) Are You Tired of Me, My Darling (19:19) Maggie Meade (46:43) Sister Thou Art M...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Gray Buchanan! We recorded this on Sunday at the Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend in Remus, Michigan. Thanks again for bringing Tall Poppy String Band out, Wheatland! Tunes in this episode: Oysters in the Half Shell (1:09) (Claire Silbernagel original) Winter Break (8:56) (Isaac McCarthy origina...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Joseph Decosimo! We recorded this about a month ago at Sonya Badigian’s place in Durham, NC. Thanks again for hosting us, Sonya! Tunes in this episode: Blackberry Blossoms (0:41) Betty Baker (14:48) Two O’Clock (50:50) Flowery Girls (1:13:46) Puncheon Camps (1:16:20) BONUS TRACK: Peas in the Pot (...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Sarah Ells Fish and Dan Fish, also known as Sunfish Duo! We recorded this a couple weeks ago at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: The Cuckoo (0:48) Going to the West (10:25) Aragon Mill (29:50) Midnight on the Stormy Deep (45:46) Winding Stream (1:01:20) BONUS TRACK: The Happy Sunn...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Kristina R. Gaddy! We recorded this at Brad Kolodner’s place in Baltimore. Tunes in this episode: Pompey Ran Away (0:45) Throw the Banjo Out of Tune (12:15) Congo Prince Jig (36:39) Congo (55:55) Poor Rosy (1:07:45) BONUS TRACK: That’s My Rabbit My Dog Caught It Buy Kristina R. Gaddy’s and Rhianno...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Brian Dolphin! We recorded this recently in Baltimore. Tunes in this episode: Ducks on the Pond (0:40) Old Ford (Brian Dolphin original) (12:28) Squirrel in the Fig Tree (Brian Dolphin original) (28:12) Robin in the Field (Brian Dolphin original) (42:22) Daylight Savings (Brian Dolphin original) (...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Shanice Richards! We recorded this on Monday in Baltimore. Tunes in this episode: The Girl I Left Behind (0:59) New Jordan (7:12) Jenny on the Railroad (30:26) Three Forks of Cheat (46:05) Jubilee (56:09) Bonus Track: Snake’s Wild Tune Visit The Little Mercies’ website Follow them on Instagram Buy...

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 last week at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: Little Rose (0:40) Waverly (15:44) Done Gone (25:11) Puncheon Camps (34:14) Clyde Davenport’s Lost Girl (41:45) Bonus Track: Hell and Scissors [Buy tickets for my April duo bill tour with Morgan Harris](mo...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Creekbed Carter Hogan! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: If I Were a Bell (lyrics by Vera Moller, melody by Creekbed Carter Hogan) (0:51) Union Maid (10:51) Where the Fraser River Flows (22:12) If I Was (Creekbed Carter Hogan original) (40:05) Bread and...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Joy Adams and Hazel Royer of Big Richard! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: Been All Around this World (0:57) In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain (14:56) Elk River Blues (26:37) Oh My Little Darling (please write in if you know the true title and source)...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Eva Leach! We recorded this at the Oly Old Time Festival in Olympia, WA. Tunes in this episode: Clyde Davenport’s Sally Johnson (0:42) Western Union (12:02) Belle of Lexington (24:04) Won’t You Come and Sing for Me (Hazel Dickens original) (31:33) Burt Anderson’s Tune (36:30) Bonus Track: Little P...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Ellie Hakanson! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: Not Soft Enough (John Hartford original) (0:47) Scraps from Your Table (Hazel Dickens original) (20:42) Say Darling Say (30:22) I Love You Honey (Patsy Cline) (49:16) January Waltz (Betse Ellis original)...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Carolyn Kendrick! We recorded this on Sunday at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: Happy Hollow (1:09) Wind and Rain (19:12) Are You Washed (42:38) A Perfect World (Carolyn Kendrick music, David Keig words) (1:00:40) Leela (1:09:50) Bonus Track: Lost Girl Visit Carolyn Kendrick’s webs...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Kat Wallace! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: Who Shot the Rooster (0:30) Ways of the World (10:48) Time to Time (Kat Wallace original) (24:36) West Virginia Mining Disaster (37:45) Five Miles to Town (44:08) Bonus Track: Ducks on the Millpond Visit Kat...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are the members of Natterjack, Ezra Jane Landsman, Hayden Stern, and Alex Sturbaum! We recorded this earlier in the month in Seattle. Tunes in this episode: Hollow Poplar (0:40) Emancipation (10:05) Björntösen (26:51) Flying Home (41:19) Lost Girl (52:30) Bonus Track: Cumberland Gap Buy Natterjack’s...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is T-Claw! We recorded this on Saturday at the Oly Old Time Festival in Olympia, WA. Tunes in this episode: Found Girl (T-Claw original) (0:38) Rats Gone to Rest (10:02) Paddy Won’t You Drink Some Good Old Cider (19:42) Wild Hog in the Woods (34:51) Fortune (57:33) Bonus Track: McLeod’s Reel Buy tix...

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Heather Blackbird! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: Pretty Saro Moonshiner West Virginia Mine Disaster Amazing Grace How can I Keep from Singing Bonus Track: Locks and Bolts Contact Heather Blackbird about their PCC courses at hlgblackbird@gmail.com Com...