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Episode 40: Liana Moskowitz (Whose Music Is This Anyway?) May 03, 2017

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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! Today’s friend is one of my favorite Philly fiddlers, Liana Moskowitz. Liana started the most recent incarnation of West Philly’s bi-monthly jam on the 2nd floor of the Gojjo Ethiopian Bar & Restaurant, and regularly plays Cajun music at Fiume, which, incidentally is also on the 2nd floor of an Ethiopian establishment in West Philly. And she’s one of the founders of the West Philly Square Dance, which is, like, blowing up, because it’s an awesome party.

Tunes we’ll play:
Georgia stomp
Beaumont Rag
Curly-Headed Woman
That’s It
Ozark Waltz
Bonus Track: Seneca Square Dance

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Episode 39: Aaron Olwell (Juggling Traditions) Apr 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 Aaron Olwell! We recorded in Charlottesville, Virginia on my recent trip South. Aaron is a fantastic fiddler and clarinetist, and I’m sure he plays lots of other things too. In fact, I think we met in a jam at my first Clifftop, and he was flatfooting while playing a double slide whistle. That was years ago, and it was the middle of the night, but I’m pretty sure that was Aaron. Anyway, there’s no antics in today’s interview, just some neat tunes of Aaron’s choosing, some hot fiddling, some ambitious banjo playing, a very unique cumberland gap, and a little chat about what makes Aaron tick.

Tunes we’ll play:
Bumblebee in a Jug
Lost Girl
Knoxville Rag
Cumberland Gap
Magnolia One-Step
Bonus Track: Grey Eagle

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Episode 38: Ruth Rappaport and Ben Wetherbee (Old Time Family Band) Apr 19, 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 Ruth Rappaport and Ben Wetherbee. We recorded our jam in Bach Bui’s apartment during my Patreon-funded Boston trip a couple months ago. Ruth and Ben are a delightful mother and son duo! It was super fun and inspiring to hang out with them and imagine forming my own family band some day. I’m excited for you to hear it!

Tunes we’ll play:
Rueben’s Train
New River Train
Lee Highway Blues
Which Side Are You On?
Lonesome Road Blues
Uncle Ned’s Waltz
Bonus Track: Women Wear No Clothes At All

Which Side Are You On: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g4U40moIZk
Ruth’s site: http://www.ruthrappaportmusic.com/
The Hoot Owls: http://www.thehootowls.com/

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Episode 37: Sophie Enloe (Portland Old Time Part II) Apr 12, 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 fiddler Sophie Enloe; we recorded this at her house in Portland when I was home for Christmas. She chose a bunch of bonkers tunes that I fully intend on actually learning someday. Especially Sift the Meal and Save the Bran.

Tunes we’ll play:
Cold Frosty Morning
Bonaparte’s Retreat
Christmastime in the Morning
Sift the Meal and Save the Bran
Lost Girl

Bonus Track:
Bile Them Cabbages Down

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Episode 36: Gabrielle Macrae (Old Time in Portland, OR) Apr 05, 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 Gabrielle Macrae, of The Horsenecks and The Macrae Sisters!

The Horsenecks (mention CD and UK tour): http://www.horsenecks.com/
Old Sledge by The Macrae Sisters: https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/macraesisters
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Episode 35: Dotty Moore (Suzuki Refugee) Mar 29, 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 Dotty Moore on fiddle and special guest accompanist, Jordan Rast, on guitar. Dotty didn’t have any particular theme in mind, so we threw a set together last minute, which I think added a pretty fun dynamic to the music and conversation. On the spectrum between jam and performance, this episode leans jam, but it’s a really hot jam! Which I think is the best case scenario for Get Up in the Cool.

Dotty’s soundloud: https://soundcloud.com/fiddlebot
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Tunes we play:
Devil Ate the Groundhog
Walkin’ in My Sleep
Gone to the Free State
The Blackest Crow
Policeman
George Booker
Bonus Track: Can You Dance a Tobacco Hill?

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Episode 34: Chris Dalnodar (Ragtime Apologist) Mar 15, 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 fiddler Chris Dalnodar, and he brought with him a very serious topic: people should learn to play rags at old time jams and not be afraid of flat keys. And, you guys, I think he makes a pretty compelling case.

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Episode 33: Jordan Rast (Growing Up Old Time) Mar 08, 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 fiddler and songwriter Jordan Rast. Jordan grew up going to clifftop, and he shared a lot of fun stories that I vicariously enjoyed. Most people sort of stumble upon or wander into Old Time Music, but Jordan was raised on the stuff. It’s always interesting, hearing people like Jordan talk about this music; he’s not a fanatic, like most folks who find Old Time as adults, like me. To Jordan, it’s just sort of a given, more akin to going home to visit your folks. He has an appreciation for the tradition that’s had time to settle, but the Old Time is rooted a lot deeper in him than it is in most folks.

Buy Jordan’s album Cowboy Money: https://jordanrast.bandcamp.com/
Visit Jordan’s YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/user/JordanRastMusic
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Tunes we’ll play:
Huldy in the Sinkhole
Unknown title Rhys Jones learned from John Summers
Making Shivers
Three Forks of the Cumberland
Over the Waterfall
Bonus Track: Sadie at the Backdoor

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Episode 32: Carl Baron (The Fiddlers of Central West Virginia) Mar 01, 2017

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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s episode is very special to me; it’s my interview and jam with Carl Baron. My friend Stephen Landis, former and probably future guest of the show, taught me my first tunes, but Carl Baron hosted my first old time jam, and that’s when, for better or worse, my life took a turn. He’s another one of those people that I’ve spent a lot of time with and barely know, because we’re too busy playing tunes to talk.

So I learned a lot about Carl in this interview, and not just through our verbal conversation. Before recording this episode, I mostly associated him with the chestnuts that are typically played at the mermaid inn jam in Germantown, Philadelphia. Playing one on one with Carl is a much different experience; his old time palette is very sophisticated and he draws from a deep well of musical knowledge and experience. And the man likes some quirky tunes.

Tunes we play:
Rickett’s Hornpipe
Black Cat in the Briar Patch
Little Rose
Old Christmas Morning
Yew Piney Mountain
Bonus Track: L&N Rag

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Episode 31: Deb Shebish (Joe Dawson's Fiddle Tunes) Feb 22, 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 Deb Shebish, and she’s brought with her a handful of tunes and sweet memories of the late fiddler from Bloomington, Indiana, Joe Dawson. As transmitters of the tradition, we’re simultaneously channeling our sources, while becoming the source for someone else. Joe Dawson’s impact wasn’t far reaching, but it was deep, and thanks to good, faithful people like Deb Shebish, his influence is just going to keep growing. And it’s going to mix with Deb’s influence, which is extremely far reaching and just as deep.

http://debshebish.com/
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http://www.drfiddle.com/

Tunes we'll play:
Paddy Won't You Take a Drink of That Good Old Cider
Lady of the Lake
Indiana Waltz
Fisher’s Hornpipe
Betty and Beauty

And Bonus Track:
Pretty Polly

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