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Get Up in the Cool

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.

Copyright: © 2022 Cameron DeWhitt

Latest Episodes:

Episode 511: Miriam Hacksaw (Malayali Tunes, Political Music, and Liberatory Spirituality) Jun 10, 2026

Show notes

Welcome 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)

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Episode 510: Tall Poppy String Band (Tunes You Can Jam from our Second Album) Jun 03, 2026

Show notes

Welcome 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

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Episode 509: Sasha Stolasz (Cool Fiddle Moms and Learning from YouTube) May 27, 2026

Show notes

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Sasha Stolasz! We recorded this a couple weeks ago at my home in Portland, OR.

Tunes in this episode:

Duck River (0:58)
Pony Boy (Mark Simos original) (9:32)
Polska efter Lars August Bejtsson (23:51)
Wandering Boy (35:06)
Neck Belly (42:10)
BONUS TRACK: Road to Westfield

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Episode 508: Simon Chrisman (Hammered Dulcimer) May 20, 2026

Show notes

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Simon Chrisman! We recorded this Sunday at my home in Portland, OR.

Tunes in this episode:

Last Chance (1:25)
Arkansas Traveler (15:55)
Wild Hog in the Woods (33:51)
Happy Hollow (1:00:05)
Three Forks of Cheat (1:07:47)
BONUS TRACK: Maloney Creek (David Keenan original)

Visit The Bee Eaters’ website
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Jeremy Kittel
Tony Furtado
Wes Corbett
Nic Gareiss

Visit the John C Campbell Folk School’s website

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Come to TransTrad!
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Episode 507: Devon Léger (Music Journalism and Publicity for Traditional Music) May 13, 2026

Show notes

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Devon Léger! We recorded this Friday afternoon at his home in Seattle.

Tunes in this episode:

Reel de la Bière Alpine (André à Toto original) (1:12)
Jig à Jos Léger (21:20)
Bake the Bread (49:28)
Charley Kahana’s Pigtown Fling (1:16:45)
Avant-deux fredonné (1:38:35)
BONUS TRACK: Valse d’Inkerman Ferry (André à Toto original)

Follow Hearth Music on Instagram

Support Tall Poppy String Band’s second album on Kickstarter!
Come to TransTrad!
See Sweeten the Third at Abbie Weisenbloom’s in Portland

Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
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Episode 506: Isabelle Kirk (Women in Old Time) May 06, 2026

Show notes

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Isabelle Kirk! We recorded this on Monday night at my home in Portland, OR.

Tunes in this episode:

Texas John (1:14)
Karen Collins’ Tune (13:03)
Sugar in my Coffee-O (25:18)
Cross Key (44:34)
The Snouts and Ears of America (1:18:21)
BONUS TRACK: Red Brick House in Georgia Town

Go square dance to the Wild Geese String Band
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Episode 505: Probably Polly String Band (Folk Punk, Playing for Square Dances, How to Start an Old Time Scene) May 01, 2026

Show notes

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Andy, Mieke, Avery, Becca, Daria, and Morgan of Probably Polly String Band! We recorded this a couple hours ago at my home in Portland, OR. Sorry this one’s out late folks.

Tunes in this episode:

Sal’s Got Mud Between Her Tunes (0:49)
Cumberland Gap (12:50)
Logan County Blues (27:19)
Old Home Town Band (38:47)
Whiteface (48:35)
BONUS TRACK: North Carolina Breakdown

Come Square Dance with Probably Polly String Band on Memorial Day!
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Episode 504: Portland Pub Sing (Ana Tighe, Ian Clemons, Asrune Reed, Claire Williams, Jonathan Lay) Apr 22, 2026

Show notes

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. Lots of friends this week; we’ve got Ana Tighe, Ian Clemons, Asrune Reed, Claire Williams, and Jonathan Lay of the Portland Pub Sing! We recorded this on Monday at my home in Portland, OR.

Tunes in this episode:

Noah’s Ark Shanty (0:34)
Garners Gay (10:40)
Old Fid (31:02)
The Florence Whale Song (49:16)(Claire Williams original)
The Pick and the Malt Shovel (58:34)(Roger Watson original)
BONUS TRACK: Drink Old Portland Dry (Ian Clemons original lyrics)

Join the Portland Pub Sing Google Group
Join the Portland Pub Sing at Tomorrow’s Verse Taproom!

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Episode 503: Sandol Astrausky (Fiddles Are Scary, Jeff Todd Titon, and Teaching Old Time Music) Apr 15, 2026

Show notes

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Sandol Astrausky! We recorded this earlier this month at Jake Blount’s home in Providence, RI, and he’ll join us later in the interview.

Tunes in this episode:

Liberty Off the Corn Liquor Still (0:35)
Big Black Cat (19:21)
Frank Barbee’s Hornpipe (43:29)
Forked Deer (55:29)
California Blues (1:07:28)
BONUS TRACK: Roaring River

Learn more about Brown University’s Old Time String Band class!

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Episode 502: Mareva Lindo and Jay Desrosiers (Old Time Music in Illinois) Apr 08, 2026

Show notes

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Mareva Lindo and Jay Desrosiers! We recorded this on Saturday at Jake Blount’s home in Providence, RI.

Tunes in this episode:

Jump that Log (0:32)
Noah Beavers’ Cotton Eyed Joe (12:58)
Biford Tite’s Old Shawneetown (31:24)
Eleanor Gibson’s Molly Bond (53:25)
Jamie’s on the Stormy Sea (a Garry Harrison old time adaptation of an Irish tune) (1:03:29)
BONUS TRACK: Damn the Reservoir (Garry Harrison original)

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