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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 491: Annie and Ellie Davis (ETSU, Learning from Source Recordings, and Old Time Ownership) Jan 21, 2026

Show notes

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Annie and Ellie Davis! We recorded this on Saturday in my home in Portland, OR.

Tunes in this episode:

Jimmie on the Railroad (from Fiddlin' John Carson) (0:32)
Doe River (Annie Davis original) (20:25)
With Kitty I’ll Go (from Jean Ritchie) (58:13)
Old Cumberland (Pat Conte original) (1:04:30)
Young Maiden (Ellie Davis original) (1:12:04)
BONUS TRACK: The Cuckoo (from The Coon Creek Girls)

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and at the Bellingham Folk Festival

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Episode 490: Butterchurch (Smörkyrka) Jan 14, 2026

Show notes

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Liam Barnes, Isabel Dammann, and Collin Stackhouse of Butterchurch, AKA Smörkyrka! We recorded this on Saturday in my home in Portland, OR.

Tunes in this episode:

Slängpolska efter Juringius (0:42)
1814 (8:14)
Eklundapolska 1 (17:06)
Slängpolska från Barsebäck (32:41)
Vrigstad (39:48)
BONUS TRACK: Nail that Catfish to a Tree

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See Tradwife in Vancouver
and at the Bellingham Folk Festival

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and follow us on Instagram
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Episode 489: Will McKay (Old Time Songs and How to Insert them into Jams) Jan 07, 2026

Show notes

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

Tunes in this episode:

All the Good Times Are Past and Gone (0:36)
I Am a Pilgrim (12:13)
Booth (19:40)
Tear Down the Fences (Ola Belle Reed original) (28:28)
Silver Dagger (to the tune of Ola Belle Reed’s Undone in Sorrow) (41:51)
BONUS TRACK: Rain and Snow

Buy Old Barn Preservation Society’s album on Bandcamp
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See Tradwife in Vancouver
and at the Bellingham Folk Festival

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Episode 488: Eli Broxham (Music, Pleasure, the Body, and Labor) Dec 31, 2025

Show notes

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Eli Broxham! We recorded this earlier in the month at his home in Nashville.

Tunes in this episode:

Fine Times at Our House (0:30)
Old Horse and Buggy (16:54)
Julianne Johnson (38:07)
Shove that Pig’s Foot a Little Further into the Fire (52:26)
Liza Jane (1:01:15)
BONUS TRACK: Susanna Gal

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Episode 487: The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project (Sharon Gilchrist, Rachel Baiman, and Ella Korth) Dec 24, 2025

Show notes

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Sharon Gilchrist, Rachel Baiman, and Ella Korth, of The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project! We recorded this last week at Rachel’s home in Madison, TN.

Tunes in this episode (all John Hartford originals):

Takes Her Clothes Off (0:36)
Not Soft Enough (11:28)
Don’t Throw Her Down (21:39)
Living Upstairs (38:55)
Long White Road (47:12)
BONUS TRACK: Madison

Visit John Hartford’s website to buy his fiddle tune albums
Visit The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project’s website for tour dates and booking
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Take Sharon Gilchrist’s Peghead Nation bluegrass mandolin course
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Episode 486: Brittany Haas (Old Time Fiddle) Dec 17, 2025

Show notes

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Brittany Haas! We recorded this last weekend at her home in Nashville.

Tunes in this episode:

Hawk is a Mule (Andrew Marlin original) (0:33)
Waynesboro (9:28)
Old Aunt Jenny with Her Nightcap On (24:56)
Polska efter Nylands Olle (36:30)
Half Past Four (41:10)
BONUS TRACK: Sugar in the Coffee

Buy Brittany Haas’s albums on Bandcamp
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Visit Punchbrothers’ website

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Episode 485: Get Up in the Yule (with Dear Crow) Dec 10, 2025

Show notes

Welcome to Get Up in the Yule: Holiday Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This year’s friends are Penka Jane Culevski and Brian Lindsay of Dear Crow! We recorded this the day after Thanksgiving in their home in Olympia, WA.

Tunes in this episode:

James Crase’s Christmas Time’s A Comin’ (0:50)
Gloucestershire Wassail (16:55)
Build Up the Bonfire (Zoe Mulford original) (30:28)
Christmas Eve (44:42)
Taylor Kimble’s Breaking Up Christmas (49:27)
BONUS TRACK: Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake

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Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
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Episode 484: Joe Seamons (Songs of the Pacific Northwest) Dec 03, 2025

Show notes

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

Tunes in this episode:

Cedar Mill Boys (lyrics from Hobe Kytr) (1:13)
Waterbound (extra lyrics from Joe Seamons) (14:34)
Give the Fiddler a Dram (extra lyrics from John Cunnick) (30:12)
Same Old Wind (John and Kim Cunnick original) (39:21)
Memphis Blues (W.C. Handy original) (55:35)
BONUS TRACK: Love, Love Alone (John Hardy original)

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Episode 483: River Scheuerell and Alex Sturbaum (Old Time with Irish Back-Up Guitar) Nov 26, 2025

Show notes

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are River Scheuerell and Alex Sturbaum! We recorded this last week at Alex’s home in Olympia, WA.

Tunes in this episode:

Half Irish (1:03)
Rocking in the Weary Land (9:15)
Winderslide (20:14)
Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom (29:26)
Bob’s Farewell (37:47)
BONUS TRACK: Gunboat

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Episode 482: Darin Gentry (Learning from Dwight Diller) Nov 19, 2025

Show notes

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

Tunes in this episode:

Half Past Four (0:54)
Greasy String (25:10)
Paddy on the Turnpike (44:00)
Dwight Diller’s Cumberland Gap (50:27)
Sally Ann (1:11:53)
BONUS TRACK: Yew Piney Mountain

Visit Darin Gentry’s website
Buy to Darin and Dwight Diller’s album
Follow Darin on 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
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