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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.

Get Up in the Cool Cameron DeWhitt

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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.

    Episode 409: Call Up in the Cool No. 4

    Episode 409: Call Up in the Cool No. 4

    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)
    Bonus Track: Roll Them Simmons


    Help Arrwa Ahmed Yafai’s family evacuate Gaza


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    Support Get Up in the Cool

    • 58 min
    Episode 408: Northern Resonance (with Tall Poppy String Band)

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

    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)
    Marion Reece’s Cumberland Gap (29:15)
    Over the Pacific (Petrus Dillner original) (39:01)
    No. 1 (Anna Ekborg Hans-Ers original) (45:57)
    Bonus Track: Chinquapin Hunting


    Visit their website
    Follow Northern Resonance on Instagram,
    Facebook,
    YouTube,
    and TikTok
    Buy their albums on Bandcamp
    Buy Anna Ekborg Hans-Ers’ solo album


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    Follow George Jackson on Instagram


    Sign up for my Crooked Tunes workshop series!


    Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
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    Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron
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    • 54 min
    Episode 407: Steve Rosen (Banjo Whimsy)

    Episode 407: Steve Rosen (Banjo Whimsy)

    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 website


    Sign up for my Crooked Tunes workshop series!


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    Support Get Up in the Cool

    • 46 min
    Episode 406: Smack Young Walser (Sweet-tooth Fiddling)

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

    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’s Cripple Creek


    Sign up for my Crooked Tunes workshop series!


    Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
    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
    Support Get Up in the Cool

    • 48 min
    Episode 405: Bobcat Opossum (Tune Scavengers)

    Episode 405: Bobcat Opossum (Tune Scavengers)

    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 Cowgirl / Cowboy’s Dream (52:24)
    Bonus Track: Quail Is a Pretty Bird


    Visit Bobcat Opossum’s website
    Follow The Debutants on Instagram
    Buy The Debutants’ album River On The Moon!
    Subscribe to Bobcat Opossum on YouTube


    Come study banjo with me at Augusta Old Time Week!


    Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
    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
    Support Get Up in the Cool

    • 56 min
    Episode 404: Calvin Woodring (Old Time Harmonica)

    Episode 404: Calvin Woodring (Old Time Harmonica)

    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 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
    Support Get Up in the Cool

    • 45 min

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