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 416: Sophie Wellington (Melodic Old Time Guitar) 14.08.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Sophie Wellington. We recorded this last month at Augusta Old Time Week in Elkins, WV. Tunes in this episode: Billy in the Lowland (0:57) John Salyer’s Barlow Knife (13:31) Shuffle About (23:01) Charleston #1 (31:23) Rugged Road (36:34) Bonus Track: Sal Will You Marry Me Follow Sophie Wellington o...

Episode 415: Scott Prouty (West Virginia Crookedness, Melvin Wine’s Birthday, and Writing Tunes) 07.08.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Scott Prouty. We recorded this last month at Augusta Old Time Week in Elkins, WV. Tunes in this episode: Ira Mullins’ Cluck Old Hen (0:54) Thomas Dillon’s Grey Eagle (15:21) Trouble at the Border (Scott Prouty original) (32:00) Lovely Jane (38:58) Coal Harbor Bend (47:28) Bonus Track: Indian and t...

Episode 414: Justin Robinson (German Influence and Old Time Down the Mountain) 31.07.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Justin Robinson. We recorded this last week at Augusta Old Time Week in Elkins, WV. Tunes in this episode: Chickens Crowing at Midnight (or Going to Raleigh) (0:50) Dancing Ladies (14:19) Little Brown Jug (25:47) Morning Star (or Virgil Craven’s Breakdown) (45:17) Westphalia Waltz (52:01) Bonus Tr...

Episode 413: Nathan Vargo (Diva Fiddling and Flatfooting) 24.07.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Nathan Vargo. We recorded this on Sunday at his home in Pittsburgh. Tunes in this episode: Rat Cheese Under the Hill (0:34) Old Jake Gillie (18:28) Sally Ann (33:57) Sandy River Belle (45:14) Ernie Carpenter’s Shelvin’ Rock (53:50) Bonus Track: Blackberry Blossom Follow Nathan Vargo on Instagram P...

Episode 412: Alice Gerrard (Luther Davis' Fiddling, Tommy Jarrell's Potato Soup, and Identity Movements in Old Time) 17.07.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Alice Gerrard with special guests Tatiana Hargreaves and Reed Stutz. We recorded this at the beginning of July in Port Townsend, Washington. Tunes and songs in this episode: Train on the Island (1:12) Remember Us (Alice Gerrard original) (14:08) Tater Patch (18:53) The One I Love Is Gone (44:45) L...

Episode 411: Earl White (Green Grass Cloggers and Spreading the Old Time Gospel) 10.07.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Earl White. We recorded this on Saturday in Port Townsend, Washington. Tunes in this episode: Cumberland Gap (0:30) Sopping Gravy (11:56) Four Miles to Cumberland (29:03) Uncle Noah Jamison (59:31) Polly Put the Kettle On (1:10:33) Bonus Track: Fiddler’s Dream Contact the Earl White at fiddlersjam...

Episode 410: Collin Stackhouse (Friend with a Podcast Tax and Health Care for All Oregon) 03.07.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Collin Stackhouse. We recorded this on Monday at my home in Portland, Oregon. Tune in this episode: Waverly (0:35) Salt River (8:08) 44 Gun (30:47) Narrative Arc/Utopia (Collin Stackhouse original) (34:31) Tommy Jarrell’s Cumberland Gap (40:51) Bonus Track: Old Cumberland (Pat Conte original) Heal...

Episode 409: Call Up in the Cool No. 4 26.06.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are a handful of listeners who called in with a question and a tune or song request because this is another Call Up in the Cool episode. Tunes in this episode: Last Chance (1:34) Policeman (25:40) Twenty Eighth of January (32:40) Kenny Baker's Sail Away Ladies (52:54) Hares on the Mountain (55:28) B...

Episode 408: Northern Resonance (with Tall Poppy String Band) 19.06.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Anna Ekborg Hans-ers, Jerker Hans-ers, and Petrus Dillner of Northern Resonance, with special guests George Jackson and Morgan Harris! We recorded this in Viroqua, Wisconsin towards the end of our tour back in April. Tune in this episode: Pride of America (0:54) Polska efter Carl Sved (12:19) Ma...

Episode 407: Steve Rosen (Banjo Whimsy) 12.06.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Steve Rosen. We recorded this at The Old Town School of Folk Music. Tune in this episode: Forked Deer (0:57) Chief O’Neill’s (13:08) Nail that Catfish to a Tree (Steve Rosen original) (26:52) Mississippi Sawyer (35:15) Mary Blacksmith (42:54) Bonus Track: Reel St. Joseph Visit Steve Rosen’s websit...

Episode 406: Smack Young Walser (Sweet-tooth Fiddling) 05.06.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Smack Young Walser. We recorded this at his home in Minneapolis. Tune in this episode: Luther Davis’ Sugar in the Gourd (0:34) Dick Sand’s Hornpipe (11:35) Old Mother Logo (32:02) Gotta Get a Job (Dave Landreth original) (38:20) Poor Little Johnny’s Gone to War (43:47) Bonus Track: Ernie Carpenter...

Episode 405: Bobcat Opossum (Tune Scavengers) 29.05.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Ellen Coplin and Sean Michael Hoffman of Bobcat Opossum. We recorded this at their home in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Tune in this episode: Charles Bee’s Old 22 (0:30) 12/31/23 (Sean Michael Hoffman original) (10:14) Bill Malley’s Polkas (25:03) South Wind / The Connaghtmans (38:26) The Bravest Cowgir...

Episode 404: Calvin Woodring (Old Time Harmonica) 22.05.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Calvin Woodring. We recorded this at his home in Madison, Wisconsin. Tune in this episode: Merriweather (1:08) Mama Blues (14:08) Zinger (21:47) The Walker Street Reel (35:51) Polecat Blues (41:11) Bonus Track: Rocky Road to Jordan The Stop and Listen Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon Sign up...

Episode 403: Lillian Werbin (Elderly Instruments) 15.05.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Lillian Werbin. We recorded this at Elderly Instruments in Lansing, MI. Tune in this episode: High on the Mountain (1:13) West Virginia, My Home (12:38) Red Rocking Chair (26:20) Darling Corey (42:30) Handsome Molly (48:07) Bonus Track: Troubles Visit Elderly Instruments’ online store! Learn more...

Episode 402: Sweet Milk and Peaches (Midwestern Schottisches, Polkas, and Jigs) 08.05.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Liz Voz and Jesse Downs of Sweet Milk and Peaches. We recorded this last week in Viroqua, Wisconsin. Tune in this episode: Step Up, Susie (1:10) Little Red Barn (9:02) Grandma’s March (18:34) A Capital Ship (28:42) The Cuckoo Schottische (39:50) Bernard Johnson’s Under the Double Eagle (45:35) B...

Episode 401: Keala Venema (Old Time Fiddle, Shamisen, and Chatting with Instruments) 01.05.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Keala Venema. We recorded this last week in Lansing, Michigan. Tune in this episode: Texas (1:04) Candy Girl (16:39) Cluck Old Hen (33:58) Julianne Johnson (39:52) Billy in the Lowground (44:38) Bonus Track: Big Scioty Follow Keala Venema on Instagram and Facebook Visit her band Whorled’s website...

Episode 400: Emily Mann (Relaxed, Notey, G Tunes and Nashville Spring Distractions) 24.04.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Emily Mann. We recorded this yesterday in Nashville at the home of Rachel Baiman and George Jackson. Tune in this episode: Burl Hammons’ Shelvin’ Rock (0:46) Forks of Reedy (13:51) Clyde Davenport’s Sally Johnson (29:19) Long John (41:58) Hell Up Coal Holler (50:30) Bonus Track: Icy Mountain Visit...

Episode 399: Ian Desiderio (Old Time Jam Democracy) 17.04.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Ian Desiderio. We recorded this yesterday at my home in Portland, OR. Tune in this episode: Chinquapin Hunting The Gray Funnel Line Short Song About God Being Spatial Awareness (Ian Desiderio original) Road to Malvern Farther Along Bonus Track: John Brown’s Dream Visit Elbow Room’s website and fol...

Tomorrow's episode will be delayed until midday; sorry! 16.04.2024

Tomorrow's episode will be delayed until midday; sorry!

Episode 398: Noa (Bowing Bass and Physical Melodies) 10.04.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Noa. We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR. Tune in this episode: Hunting the Buffalo (1:05) Squirrel Hunters (25:09) Dry (Judy Hyman original) (42:57) Fast Down (51:35) Red Prairie Dawn (1:06:55) Bonus Track: Red Rocking Chair Buy Fog Holler’s albums and check their tour dates Fol...

Episode 397: The Carolina Rose (Caroline Oakley and Rose Minkler) 03.04.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Caroline Oakley and Rose Minkler of The Carolina Rose. We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR. Tune in this episode: The Boll Weevil Drag (1:32) Cranberry Rock (16:39) I Once Loved a Sailor (34:42) Muskrat (57:54) Dora Dean (1:05:01) Bonus Track: Lowe Bonnie Visit Caroline Oakley’...

Episode 396: Church for Dogs (New Converts to Contra Dance) 27.03.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are the members of my new contra dance band, Church for Dogs! Kate Gregory and Jonathan Craig Roberts. We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR. Tune in this episode: Isham Monday’s Fire on the Mountain (0:58) Halifax (22:05) Old Blind Sow She Stole the Middlins (36:02) Polly Put the Ke...

Episode 395: Kaden Hurst (Mandolin's Place in Old Time, Gender in Ballads, and Making a Nice Sound) 20.03.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Kaden Hurst. We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR. Tune in this episode: Tater Roll (1:05) Five Miles from Town (18:36) Cold Mountains (34:58) Rye Straw (48:43) Poor Man’s Song (56:35) Bonus Track: High Up on Tug Visit Never Come Down’s website and follow them on Instagram Study M...

Episode 394: Hal Cannon (Old Time in Utah and Cowboy Music) 13.03.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Hal Cannon. We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR. Tune in this episode: Peter Francisco (0:54) Frosted Horses (Hal Cannon original) (14:02) Dust Devil (Hal Cannon original) (28:47) Crippled Up Blues (Hal Cannon original) (36:12) Utah Trail March (Hal Cannon original) (51:17) Texas...

Episode 393: Kendl Winter (Banjo Mantras) 06.03.2024

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Kendl Winter! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR. Tune in this episode (all Kendl Winter originals): Tuesday’s Noods (0:57) Corduroy Pillows (23:59) Roscoe’s Blooping (33:25) Apple Core (48:54) One Blanket to Rule them All (59:06) Bonus Track: Island Mantra Buy Kendl Winter’s Ba...

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