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.

  1. 1D AGO

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

    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 Jackson’s Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/c/georgejackson/posts) Follow him on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/georgefiddle/) Buy George’s albums on Bandcamp (https://georgejacksonmusic.bandcamp.com/) Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool) Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/get-up-in-the-cool) Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! (https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/) Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron (https://www.camerondewhitt.com/banjolessons) Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website (https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/) and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tallpoppystringband/)

    1h 1m

  2. OCT 8

    Episode 476: Kelsey Sutton (Flatfooting and Ballad Singing)

    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: Western Country Junior Appalachian Musicians (https://jamkids.org/) Donate to Madison County Community Housing Coalition (https://chcmadisoncountync.org/donate/) Watch the dancing in this episode! (https://youtu.be/SgbgDMyBReE) Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool) Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/get-up-in-the-cool) Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! (https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/) Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron (https://www.camerondewhitt.com/banjolessons) Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website (https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/) and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tallpoppystringband/)

    59 min

  3. OCT 1

    Episode 475: Wila Frank (Old Time Music Grounding)

    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 (https://paperwingsband.com/) Visit Wila Frank’s website (https://wilafrank.com/) Come see Tall Poppy String Band in Myrtle Beach (https://www.southbysoutheast.org/) Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool) Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/get-up-in-the-cool) Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! (https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/) Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron (https://www.camerondewhitt.com/banjolessons) Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website (https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/) and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tallpoppystringband/)

    50 min

  4. SEP 24

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

    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 original) (1:59:48) * BONUS TRACK: Lungwort (Anna RG original) Sick center website (https://sickcenter.net/) Follow Covid Action Map on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/covidactionmap/?hl=en) Email Anna RG if you’re an old time musician with long covid: sickcenters@gmail.com Come see Tall Poppy String Band in Myrtle Beach (https://www.southbysoutheast.org/) Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool) Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/get-up-in-the-cool) Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! (https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/) Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron (https://www.camerondewhitt.com/banjolessons) Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website (https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/) and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tallpoppystringband/)

    2h 4m

  5. SEP 17

    Episode 473: Greta Hazilla (Scottish and Irish Fiddle)

    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 (32:14) * BONUS TRACK: Virginia Reel Visit Triple File’s website (https://triplefile.wixsite.com/triple-file-band) Come see Tall Poppy String Band in Myrtle Beach (https://www.southbysoutheast.org/) Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool) Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/get-up-in-the-cool) Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! (https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/) Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron (https://www.camerondewhitt.com/banjolessons) Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website (https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/) and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tallpoppystringband/)

    35 min

  6. SEP 10

    Episode 472: Call Up in the Cool No. 7

    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 episode, record a voice memo or just send an email right now to getupinthecool@gmail.com, and I’ll play it or read it on air for the next one! Tunes in this episode: * Clyde Davenport’s Sally Ann (1:12) * John Hatcher’s Grub Springs (21:30) * Green Valley Waltz (35:06) * Waverly (47:09) * Glory in the Meetinghouse (52:52) * BONUS TRACK: Omie Wise Solo Clawhammer Tunes from Source Recordings online workshop series (https://www.camerondewhitt.com/store) Come see Morgan Harris and I open for Never Come Down in Hood River Sep 12 (https://www.theruins.org/event-details/never-come-down-2) Sign up for the Queer and Trans Old Time Music Gathering! (https://tinyurl.com/QTOTG2025) Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool) Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/get-up-in-the-cool) Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! (https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/) Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron (https://www.camerondewhitt.com/banjolessons) Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website (https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/) and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tallpoppystringband/)

    56 min

  7. SEP 3

    Episode 471: Morgan Harris (Old Time Fiddle)

    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 Harris’ album Alone Will Tell (https://morganharrisguitar.bandcamp.com/album/alone-will-tell) Visit her website (https://www.morganharrisguitar.com/) Follow her on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/morganharrisguitar/) Come see Morgan Harris and I open for Never Come Down in Hood River Sep 12 (https://www.theruins.org/event-details/never-come-down-2) Sign up for the Queer and Trans Old Time Music Gathering! (https://tinyurl.com/QTOTG2025) Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool) Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/get-up-in-the-cool) Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! (https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/) Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron (https://www.camerondewhitt.com/banjolessons) Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website (https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/) and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tallpoppystringband/)

    59 min

  8. AUG 27

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

    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 (https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool) Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/get-up-in-the-cool) Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! (https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/) Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron (https://www.camerondewhitt.com/banjolessons) Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website (https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/) and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tallpoppystringband/)

    1h 7m
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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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  • Creator
    Cameron DeWhitt
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2025
  • Episodes
    486
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Cameron DeWhitt
  • Show Website
    Get Up in the Cool

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