Get Up in the Cool

Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends

About the show

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.

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Episodes

  • Episode 452: Shanice Richards (Jamaican Church, The Little Mercies, and Old Time with Somethin’ Sassy)

    April 23rd, 2025  |  1 hr 26 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, jean ritchie, old time, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, old time songs

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Shanice Richards! We recorded this on Monday in Baltimore.

  • Episode 451: Morgan Harris (April Duo Bill Tour with Cameron DeWhitt)

    April 16th, 2025  |  46 mins 45 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, flat picking guitar, guitar, melodic clawhammer banjo, old time banjo, old time guitar, old time music

    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.

  • Episode 450: Creekbed Carter Hogan (Labor Songs)

    April 9th, 2025  |  59 mins 10 secs
    banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, guitar, labor songs, old time banjo, old time music, protest music, union songs

    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.

  • Episode 449: Joy Adams and Hazel Royer (The Low End of Big Richard)

    April 2nd, 2025  |  1 hr 5 mins
    banjo, cello, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time, old time banjo, old time cello, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music

    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.

  • Episode 448: Eva Leach (Musician Identity Outside of Performance)

    March 26th, 2025  |  40 mins 9 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, clyde davenport, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music

    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.

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

    March 19th, 2025  |  1 hr 7 mins
    banjo, bluegrass, bluegrass fiddle, bluegrass songs, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music

    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.

  • Episode 446: Carolyn Kendrick (Tradition, Reactionary Politics, and the Satanic Panic)

    March 12th, 2025  |  1 hr 14 mins
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, fiddle tunes, old time, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, old time songs, songwriting, traditional music, traditional songs

    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.

  • Episode 445: Kat Wallace (Old Time Fiddling and Writing Songs)

    March 5th, 2025  |  49 mins 10 secs
    banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, original songs

    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.

  • Episode 444: Natterjack (Contra Dance Music and Compulsory Non-Binary Identity)

    February 26th, 2025  |  56 mins 38 secs
    banjo, button accordion, celtic guitar, contra dance music, dadgad guitar, fiddle, old time, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, scandi tunes, scandinavian music

    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.

  • Episode 443: T-Claw (Square Dance Calling)

    February 19th, 2025  |  1 hr 35 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, original songs, songwriting

    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.

  • Episode 442: Heather Blackbird (Unaccompanied Ballad Singing)

    February 12th, 2025  |  1 hr 13 mins
    ballad singing, ballads, old time music, old time singing, unaccompanied

    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.

  • Episode 441: Whiskey Deaf (Annie Staninec and John Kael)

    February 5th, 2025  |  1 hr 1 sec
    bluegrass, bluegrass songs, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time, old time backup guitar, old time fiddle, old time songs, old time tunes, stanley brothers

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Annie Staninec and John Kael of Whiskey Deaf! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 440: Richard Melling & Karen McCracken (Old Time Duet Singing)

    January 29th, 2025  |  56 mins 24 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time songs

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Richard Melling & Karen McCracken! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 439: Benny Bleu and Titus Stevens (Old Time in Upstate New York)

    January 22nd, 2025  |  49 mins 56 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time backup, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Benny Bleu and Titus Stevens! We recorded this on Monday at my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 438: Dan Leif (Old Time Music in Portland, Oregon)

    January 15th, 2025  |  1 hr 11 mins
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time, old time banjo, old time guitar, old time music, old time songs, tunes with words

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

  • Episode 437: Call Up in the Cool No. 6

    January 8th, 2025  |  1 hr 4 mins
    banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, old time, old time music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are you all, because it’s another Call Up in the Cool episode where you send me your questions and prompts and tune and song requests!