Podcast
Get Up in the Cool
Hosted by Cameron DeWhitt · EN
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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Episode 518: Get Up in the Cool 10th Anniversary Look Back (Part 4)
2w ago01:11:49Tap to summarizeWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. Get Up in the Cool is 10 years old! We’re going to spend this month looking back in four parts. Tunes in this episode: Richmond Blues with Rachel Eddy Cumberland Gap with Earl White Wade Ward’s Peach Bottom Creek with Maggie Lind Wind and Rain with Carolyn Kendrick Won’t You Come and Sing with Me with Anna RG BONUS TRACK: Mississippi Sawyer [Buy your tickets for Tall Poppy String Band’s upcoming shows!](tallpoppystringband.com/shows) Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website and follow us on Instagram follow Sweeten the Third on Instagram Support Get Up in the Cool
Transcribe →Episode 517: Get Up in the Cool 10th Anniversary Look Back (Part 3)
3w ago00:50:49Tap to summarizeWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. Get Up in the Cool is 10 years old! We’re going to spend this month looking back in four parts. Tunes in this episode: The Old Yellow Dog Come Trotting Through the Meetinghouse with Brooks Masten Evening Prayer Blues with Mark Graham George Hammons’ Tune with The Canotes Grandma’s March with Sweet Milk and Peaches Gotta Get a Job with Smack Young Walser BONUS TRACK: Ragged Coat Visit the John C. Campbell Folk School’s website Buy your tickets for Tall Poppy String Band’s upcoming shows! Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website and follow us on Instagram follow Sweeten the Third on Instagram Support Get Up in the Cool
Transcribe →Episode 516: Get Up in the Cool 10th Anniversary Look Back (Part 2) (FIXED AUDIO)
4w ago00:53:38Tap to summarizeWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. Get Up in the Cool is 10 years old! We’re going to spend this month looking back in four parts. Tunes in this episode: La de Mariano Romero with Lone Piñon Davey Davey with Nic Gareiss See that Rainbow Shine with Sarah Kate Morgan Whispering Forest with Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms(original song by Marijohn Wilkin) Breakin’ Up Christmas with Amelia and Dirk Powell BONUS TRACK: Bound to Have a Little Fun [Buy your tickets for Tall Poppy String Band’s upcoming shows!](tallpoppystringband.com/shows) Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website and follow us on Instagram follow Sweeten the Third on Instagram Support Get Up in the Cool
Transcribe →Episode 515: Get Up in the Cool 10th Anniversary Look Back (Part 1)
Jul 801:09:32Tap to summarizeWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. Get Up in the Cool is 10 years old! We’re going to spend this month looking back in four parts. Tunes in this episode: Sugar Hill with Spencer Family and Friends Molly Ban + Sullivan’s Hollow with Jess McIntosh Chigule with Peter Mawanga Mississippi Sawyer with Paul Brown Moccasin Shuffle / Saddle Old Paint with Jamie Fox (and Scotty Leach) BONUS TRACK: Last of Harris [Buy your tickets for Tall Poppy String Band’s upcoming shows!](tallpoppystringband.com/shows) Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website and follow us on Instagram follow Sweeten the Third on Instagram Support Get Up in the Cool
Transcribe →Request For Upcoming Call Up In The Cool 10 Year Anniversary Edition
Jul 100:00:24Tap to summarizeNext week is the ten year anniversary of Get Up in the Cool! I'm going to do a call up in the cool episode, but I need your questions/favorite moments from the last 10 years/tune and song requests. You can email a voice memo or written submission to getupinthecool@gmail.com I'll be working on this Monday and Tuesday, so try and have these in before the weekend is over if you're going to participate. Thanks y'all!Support Get Up in the Cool
Transcribe →Episode 514: Lizzie Cahalin and Perry Blosser (of The Ridge Ramblers)
Jul 101:04:08Tap to summarizeWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Lizzie Cahalin and Perry Blosser! We recorded this a couple weeks ago at Redwing Roots Festival in Virginia. Tunes in this episode: Sam Hill (0:40) Otis Burris’s Fortune (09:14) Winderslide (Joe LeRose original melody, Lorie Lichtenwalner original lyrics) (30:16) Peas in the Pot (56:56) Flatwoods (1:01:07) BONUS TRACK: Critters in the Stuff (Dan Newitt original) Follow The Ridge Ramblers on Instagram and Facebook [Buy your tickets for Tall Poppy String Band’s upcoming shows!](tallpoppystringband.com/shows) Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website and follow us on Instagram follow Sweeten the Third on Instagram Support Get Up in the Cool
Transcribe →Episode 513: Justin Golden (Blues Guitar and Old Time Banjo)
Jun 2400:39:35Tap to summarizeWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Justin Golden! We recorded this last weekend in Richmond, VA. Tunes in this episode: My Creole Bell (0:40) You Got To Walk that Lonesome Valley (12:53) Bad Luck Blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson original) (22:42) The Rain Done Fell on Me (29:53) You Don’t Know My Mind (36:09) BONUS TRACK: Sitting on Top of the World (Walter Vinson and Lonnie Chatmon original) Follow Justin Golden on Instagram and Facebook [Buy your tickets for Tall Poppy String Band’s upcoming shows!](tallpoppystringband.com/shows) Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website and follow us on Instagram follow Sweeten the Third on Instagram Support Get Up in the Cool
Transcribe →Episode 512: Sweeten the Third (Banjo and Flatfooting) (see show notes for supercut of dancing)
Jun 1700:55:56Tap to summarizeWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Afton Coombs, here to talk about our new band, Sweeten the Third! We recorded this earlier in the month at TransTrad in Olympia, WA. Tunes in this episode: Kilby Snow’s Troubles / Rain Water (Cameron DeWhitt original) (1:11) Wind and Rain (25:39) Greasy Coat / Tam Lin (40:01) Wild Mountain Thyme / Last of Harris / Chattanooga (48:31) BONUS TRACK: Supercut of dance moments in this episode Follow Sweeten the Third on Instagram and TikTok [Visit the John C Campbell Folk School website to find out who’s playing their Centennial Sounds series this summer](folkschool.org/sounds) Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website and follow us on Instagram follow Sweeten the Third on Instagram Support Get Up in the Cool
Transcribe →Episode 511: Miriam Hacksaw (Malayali Tunes, Political Music, and Liberatory Spirituality)
Jun 1000:58:01Tap to summarizeWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Miriam Hacksaw! We recorded this last weekend at TransTrad in Olympia, WA. Tunes in this episode: Thunhayenikkeshuvaam (0:41) Silent Bullet (Miriam Hacksaw original) (17:02) Kuttanadan Punjayile (32:14) Vandi Pukavandi (49:24) Sally in the Garden (54:24) BONUS TRACK: Waterbound (Dirk Powell original) Miriam Hacksaw’s Bandcamp Follow her on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website and follow us on Instagram follow Sweeten the Third on Instagram Support Get Up in the Cool
Transcribe →Episode 510: Tall Poppy String Band (Tunes You Can Jam from our Second Album)
Jun 301:14:22Tap to summarizeWelcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are my friends in Tall Poppy String Band, Morgan Harris and George Jackson! Mostly Morgan, but George sent a couple fiddle recordings over. We recorded this on Monday at my home in Portland, OR. Tunes in this episode: Nine Eagle Feathers in a County Cork Park (Cameron DeWhitt original) (1:16) Seafoam (George Jackson original) (15:44) Eggshells (Morgan Harris original) (26:27) Resignation (Cameron DeWhitt original) (54:08) Mirrorball (George Jackson original) (1:05:47) BONUS TRACK: Anvil Cloud (Morgan Harris original) Support Tall Poppy String Band’s second album on Kickstarter! Tall Poppy String Band is going on tour! See Sweeten the Third at Abbie Weisenbloom’s in Portland Come to TransTrad! See Tradwife open for Creekbed Carter Hogan at The Showdown in SE Portland June 12 Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website and follow us on Instagram follow Sweeten the Third on Instagram Support Get Up in the Cool
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