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Episode 60: John Lane (Missouri Fiddle Tunes) Sep 27, 2017

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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s guest is John Lane, and we’re going to play some Missouri tunes for you, and tell you which tunes you know and love have been Missouri tunes all along. You may be surprised! Some of you definitely won’t be, because you’re Old Time super nerds, and I love that about you. Never change.

Anyway, this episode is very good. We recorded it in Spitzer Space Telescope’s apartment in Chicago while I was in town for the Midwest Sing and Stomp. His room’s part of an old repurposed dentists’ office, and the room at the end of the hall was an art gallery. The bathroom window opened up onto an ancient fire escape, and when Dan made us pancakes, he had to do it on an electric element. It was just about the most bohemian living situation I’d ever seen, and it was delightful. Dan just hung out in the corner while we jammed, and Chet, a contradance caller from knoxville, I think, sat at his desk and practiced calligraphy. I just wanted to set the scene, because there’s a fair amount of street noise in this episode, and I think it will be more enjoyable if you can picture our setting.

Make sure to stick around after the interview to find out where to listen to John’s music and also hear some exciting news about Get Up in the Cool. Let’s get it started. Here’s my jam and chat with John Lane. Enjoy!

Tunes we’ll play:
Grand Picnic
Salty River Reel
Pride of America
Coming Up the Pike
Iberia Breakdown
Bonus Track: Johnny Don’t Come Home Drunk

John’s album: https://fiddlerjones.bandcamp.com/releases
Follow John on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/johndaniellane
and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/twolaneroad
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Episode 59: Lucas Pasley (First Hand Tunes) Sep 20, 2017

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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! I’m really excited for you to hear my interview with this week’s friend, Lucas Pasley, because Lucas has a real, personal connection to this music, and it’s rare to interview someone who studied so close to the source. Also joining us is Kilby Spencer on guitar, who’s been on the show a few times before; he’s the one who set me up with a whole bunch of interviews, including this one, and hosted me when I came down to Crumpler, NC last spring. Thanks again, Kilby!

Make sure to stick around after the interview to hear about Lucas’ new album and find out how to support Get Up in the Cool and get access to exclusive bonus content. Here’s my jam and chat with Lucas Pasley; enjoy!

Buy Lucas' new album on CD Baby: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/lucaspasley
Stream it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAITZSHyQgk&list=PLfXpurfVgkCdNqxzKtNSk6V_kp0Wn8TpG
Don't forget to check out those FRC albums:
https://fieldrecorder.bandcamp.com/album/frc-712-old-time-fiddle-music-of-alleghany-county-nc-lucas-pasley-and-kilby-spencer-collections
https://fieldrecorder.bandcamp.com/album/frc-719-old-time-banjo-music-of-alleghany-county-nc-lucas-pasley-and-kilby-spencer-collections
https://fieldrecorder.bandcamp.com/album/frc-722-fred-mcbride-north-carolina-fiddle-banjo-from-the-collection-of-lucas-pasley
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Episode 58: Sonya Badigian (Four Syllables–Hard G) Sep 13, 2017

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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Sonya Badigian. I’m not sure exactly when I met Sonya; probably at Clifftop a few years ago, but I really got to know her when she invited me to her birthday party last fall back when she lived in Charlottesville, and I decided to go, on a whim, even though I barely knew her. Old Time music is cool like that.

Tunes we’ll play:
Blackfoot
John Cole
Judge Parker, Take These Shackles Off of Me
Sally Goodin
Who’s Gonna Talk to Dinah
Midnight
Bonus Track: Prettiest Little Gal in the County

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Buy GUitC Vol. 1 https://camerondewhitt.bandcamp.com/
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Episode 57: Craig Edwards (Feed Your Loa) Sep 06, 2017

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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Craig Edwards! We recorded this interview at the Harry Smith Frolic at the tail end of a thunderstorm, which I maintain is one of my favorite settings for recording this show. Craig is a musician who thinks about this music as much as he plays it, which, if this isn’t your first Get Up in the Cool episode, you know I really appreciate. He tells some great stories about hanging out with Ernie Carpenter and Clyde Davenport and watching the Birchfields play, all while emanating this energy of gratitude and respect, which I found pretty contagious.

Tunes we’ll play:
Shelvin’ Rock
Natchez Under the Hill
Cousin Sally Brown
Rowdy Blues
Sleepy Eyed John
Jaybird Died of Pertussis
Bonus Track: Sweet Milk and Peaches

Craig's website: http://fiddlecraig.wixsite.com/craigedwards
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Episode 56: Libby Weitnauer (Live at Black Creek Fiddlers' Reunion) Aug 30, 2017

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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Libby Weitnauer! We recorded this interview in front of a live audience at Black Creek Fiddlers’ Reunion, and I’ve been really excited to share it, because Libby is a wonderful fiddler and she’s lovely to talk to. One of my favorite things is listening to classically trained violinists who fall in love with Old Time, because they take the same dedication and discipline necessary to play classical violin and apply it to accurately transmitting this old music. Some never quite make the transition and have trouble getting it, but others, like Libby, bring something really special to the tradition.

Thanks again to Black Creek for hosting us and supporting Get Up in the Cool on Patreon! I’m going to get this show started. Stick around after the interview for details on how to support the show and maybe hear Libby and I play this week’s bonus track, Dull Chisel.

Here’s my jam and chat with Libby Weitnauer. Enjoy!

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Episode 55: Hilarie Burhans (Queen of Burhania) Aug 23, 2017

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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is clawhammer banjoist, restaurateur, and queen of Burhania, Hilarie Burhans. We recorded this episode at the Brandywine Revival Festival, and I’m really excited for you to hear it! Hilarie is one of my very favorite humans; she’s charming and generous and hilarious, and I think she’s responsible in no small part for the quality of the culture of Old Time Music, which is mostly why I play, so I feel a lot of gratitude and respect for her.

Oh, and Hilarie Burhans is badass at the banjo. She’s one of the best. Her rhythm is unstoppable, her tone is incredible, and the way she adapts fiddle melodies to the banjo, I think, makes her one of the musically wisest players in the old time community. You have to have a real insight into what makes a tune special to make it sing on the banjo the way Hilarie can.

Buy Hotpoint Stringband’s albums: http://www.hotpointstringband.com/music/4590975104
Follow Sugar Pie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/janehilariekelliesabra/
Buy Sugar Pie’s album A Message From Home: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/sugarpie2#
Subscribe to Hilarie’s youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/clawhammerlady
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Tunes we’ll play:
Cumberland Gap
Avalon Quickstep
Squirrel Hunters
Jeff Sturgeon
Missing You All the Way Home
Bonus Track: Jane and Hilarie’s Tune

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Episode 54: Rusty and Nancy Neithammer (Twin Fiddling/Hanging Out with Tommy) Aug 16, 2017

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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Rusty and Nancy Neithammer! I’ve been trying to get them on the show for quite a while, because they’re the best. And they have awesome stories about hanging out with Tommy Jarrell and Bruce Greene!

Tunes we’ll play:
Cindy
Moonlight
Give the Fiddler a Dram
Neithammer Honeymoon
Polly’s Mountain Kettle
Bonus Track: Aldeline Waltz

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Episode 53: Seth Swingle (Old Banjo Tunes in Rare Tunings) Aug 09, 2017

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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This is a very special episode of Get Up in the Cool, because my guest is Seth Swingle. We recorded this interview at Clifftop last year, very late in the festival. Seth was actually my eighth recording that week, so when he said he wanted to showcase solo banjo music in weird tunings, I said, so you mean I don’t have to learn any tunes? I can just sit and listen to you??? I was very excited.

Tunes we’ll play
Shortenin’ Bread
Lost Gander
Buck Creek Gals
Grigsby’s Hornpipe
Whoop ‘Em Up Cindy
Rye Whiskey
Bonus Track: Rebels’ Raid

Buy Seth's new album: http://www.sethswingle.com/store/

RSVP to Seth's Old Time Banjo Workshop and Concert (Facebook event)

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Episode 52: Joe Showalter (Tunes from Two Gun Terry) Jul 26, 2017

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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Joe Showalter. I stopped by his house a couple months ago at the end of my first Get Up in the Cool tour, and it was really nice to get to know him a little better and play one on one. We talked about religion and music, and the tension that exists there sometimes. Specifically, the line between worship and performance, which, incidentally, I think, is a false dichotomy that is also present in old time music.

Tunes we’ll play:
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
Cuckoo’s Nest
Round the Horn
Billy in the Lowground
Texas Gals
Bonus Track: Swingin’ On A Gate

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Episode 51: Jake Blount (Reparations) Jul 19, 2017

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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s guest is one of my dearest friends in the Old Time community, Jake Blount, and this is his second appearance on Get Up in the Cool. I love having Jake on the show, because he’s an incredible musician, and he’s uniquely insightful and sometimes incisive about the roots of this music and the way people perceive it and the discrepancies between the two. Jake actually throws a lot of shade in this interview, which is an interesting choice, considering he’s on the show to promote his new EP with Tatiana Hargreaves, no big deal, and some of the things he says might make his audience defensive.

But every grievance Jake expresses is matched and exceeded with this effusive gratitude, and humility, which he articulates just as eloquently. So, I’m just going to go ahead and encourage you to adopt an open posture while listening to this, because the things Jake has to say are things we need to hear, and no one is going to communicate them as clearly, or as gracefully as he does. If you can do that, you will be touched by this music in the way it’s intended, which is to bring joy, through discomfort.

Stick around after the interview and I’ll give you a sneak peak at Jake’s new EP. You don’t want to miss it. Here’s my wonderful conversation with Jake Blount, who I like a lot. Enjoy.

Tunes we’ll play:
Indian on a Stump
Snowshoes
Sally Ann
Georgia Belles
Johnny Court the Widow
Bonus Track: Running Home to Doris

Jake’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/notjacobnotblunt/
Jake’s first episode: http://www.camerondewhitt.com/getupinthecool/jakeblount
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