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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 451: Morgan Harris (April Duo Bill Tour with Cameron DeWhitt) Apr 16, 2025

Show notes

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 last week at my home in Portland, OR.

Tunes in this episode:

Little Rose (0:40)
Waverly (15:44)
Done Gone (25:11)
Puncheon Camps (34:14)
Clyde Davenport’s Lost Girl (41:45)
Bonus Track: Hell and Scissors

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Buy her album
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Episode 450: Creekbed Carter Hogan (Labor Songs) Apr 09, 2025

Show notes

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

Tunes in this episode:

If I Were a Bell (lyrics by Vera Moller, melody by Creekbed Carter Hogan) (0:51)
Union Maid (10:51)
Where the Fraser River Flows (22:12)
If I Was (Creekbed Carter Hogan original) (40:05)
Bread and Roses (55:09)
Bonus Track: Rise (Creekbed Carter Hogan original)

Buy Creekbed Carter Hogan’s album
Creekbed Carter Hogan on Substack
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and Facebook

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Episode 449: Joy Adams and Hazel Royer (The Low End of Big Richard) Apr 02, 2025

Show notes

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Joy Adams and Hazel Royer of Big Richard! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.

Tunes in this episode:

Been All Around this World (0:57)
In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain (14:56)
Elk River Blues (26:37)
Oh My Little Darling (please write in if you know the true title and source) (50:22)
Billy in the Lowground (1:01:43)
Bonus Track: No Corners (but Joy insists it’s called Wheel Moss) (Gus Tritsch original)

Visit Big Richard’s website and buy their new album Girl Dinner
and follow them on Instagram

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Episode 448: Eva Leach (Musician Identity Outside of Performance) Mar 26, 2025

Show notes

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Eva Leach! We recorded this at the Oly Old Time Festival in Olympia, WA.

Tunes in this episode:

Clyde Davenport’s Sally Johnson (0:42)
Western Union (12:02)
Belle of Lexington (24:04)
Won’t You Come and Sing for Me (Hazel Dickens original) (31:33)
Burt Anderson’s Tune (36:30)
Bonus Track: Little Princess’s Footsteps

Buy Eva’s new album on Bandcamp
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Come see Morgan and I on tour on the East Coast!

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Episode 447: Ellie Hakanson (Proto-Feminist Bluegrass Songs, John Hartford, and Hazel Dickens) Mar 19, 2025

Show notes

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

Tunes in this episode:

Not Soft Enough (John Hartford original) (0:47)
Scraps from Your Table (Hazel Dickens original) (20:42)
Say Darling Say (30:22)
I Love You Honey (Patsy Cline) (49:16)
January Waltz (Betse Ellis original) (1:03:07)
Bonus Track: Methodist Preacher

New the new John Hartford Project album: Julia Belle!
Follow Missy Raines on Instagram for news about the new album
Follow Grasstime on Instagram for news about their new album

Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
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Episode 446: Carolyn Kendrick (Tradition, Reactionary Politics, and the Satanic Panic) Mar 12, 2025

Show notes

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

Tunes in this episode:

Happy Hollow (1:09)
Wind and Rain (19:12)
Are You Washed (42:38)
A Perfect World (Carolyn Kendrick music, David Keig words) (1:00:40)
Leela (1:09:50)
Bonus Track: Lost Girl

Visit Carolyn Kendrick’s website
Buy Carolyn’s album and zine on Bandcamp

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Episode 445: Kat Wallace (Old Time Fiddling and Writing Songs) Mar 05, 2025

Show notes

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

Tunes in this episode:

Who Shot the Rooster (0:30)
Ways of the World (10:48)
Time to Time (Kat Wallace original) (24:36)
West Virginia Mining Disaster (37:45)
Five Miles to Town (44:08)
Bonus Track: Ducks on the Millpond

Visit Kat Wallace’s website
Buy her album Grand Design on Bandcamp
Visit Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light’s website

Sign up for Cameron’s Online Melodic Clawhammer Workshop Series

Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
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Episode 444: Natterjack (Contra Dance Music and Compulsory Non-Binary Identity) Feb 26, 2025

Show notes

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are the members of Natterjack, Ezra Jane Landsman, Hayden Stern, and Alex Sturbaum! We recorded this earlier in the month in Seattle.

Tunes in this episode:

Hollow Poplar (0:40)
Emancipation (10:05)
Björntösen (26:51)
Flying Home (41:19)
Lost Girl (52:30)
Bonus Track: Cumberland Gap

Buy Natterjack’s album on Bandcamp
Visit Transtrad’s website
Get a Tattoo from Ezra Jane Landsman (http://www.ejlandsman.com)
Visit Hayden’s Stern website
and follow him on Instagram
Buy Countercurrent’s new record
Visit Alex Sturbaum’s website

Come see Tradwife Stringband open for Rachel Sumner on February 26th at McMenamins White Eagle Saloon
Follow Tradwife Stringband on Instagram

Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
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and follow us on Instagram

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Episode 443: T-Claw (Square Dance Calling) Feb 19, 2025

Show notes

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is T-Claw! We recorded this on Saturday at the Oly Old Time Festival in Olympia, WA.

Tunes in this episode:

Found Girl (T-Claw original) (0:38)
Rats Gone to Rest (10:02)
Paddy Won’t You Drink Some Good Old Cider (19:42)
Wild Hog in the Woods (34:51)
Fortune (57:33)
Bonus Track: McLeod’s Reel

Buy tix for Helvetia Hoot! (May 30-June !)
Visit the John C. Campbell Folk School website
Buy Fiddle Pie’s albums on Bandcamp

Come see Tradwife Stringband open for Rachel Sumner on February 26th at McMenamins White Eagle Saloon
Follow Tradwife Stringband on Instagram

Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
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Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron
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Episode 442: Heather Blackbird (Unaccompanied Ballad Singing) Feb 12, 2025

Show notes

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

Tunes in this episode:

Pretty Saro
Moonshiner
West Virginia Mine Disaster
Amazing Grace
How can I Keep from Singing
Bonus Track: Locks and Bolts

Contact Heather Blackbird about their PCC courses at hlgblackbird@gmail.com

Come see Tradwife Stringband open for Rachel Sumner on February 26th at McMenamins White Eagle Saloon
Follow Tradwife Stringband on Instagram

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
Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website
and follow us on Instagram

Support Get Up in the Cool

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