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 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!

  • Episode 436: Joe Pomianek (Old Time Flatpicking Guitar and Mandolin)

    January 1st, 2025  |  41 mins 12 secs
    clawhammer banjo, fiddle, flat picking, guitar, mandolin, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time mandolin, old time music

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

  • Episode 435: Countercurrent (Original Tunes and Writing Anti-Capitalist Folk Music)

    December 25th, 2024  |  56 mins 51 secs
    banjo, banjo duet, celtic music, clawhammer banjo, clawhammer duet, dodgad guitar, fiddle, guitar, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music, political folk songs, protest songs

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Alex Sturbaum and Brian Lindsay of Countercurrent! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 434: A Very Church for Dogs Christmas (with Kate Gregory and Jonathan Craig Roberts)

    December 18th, 2024  |  59 mins 37 secs
    banjo, carols, christmas, christmas carols, christmas music, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, holiday songs, old time, old time fiddle, old time music, old time piano, piano

    Happy holidays and welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Seasonal Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Kate Gregory and Jonathan Craig Roberts, which makes this a Church for Dogs Christmas Special! We recorded this Monday night at Jonathan’s home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 433: Kate Gregory and Brendan Hearn (Original Tunes, Galico Tuning, and Old Time Cello)

    December 11th, 2024  |  54 mins 17 secs
    banjo, cello, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time, old time banjo, old time cello, old time fiddle, old time music, original tunes

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Kate Gregory and Brendan Hearn! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 432: Brandon Godman (Buying Violins for a Living, Groovy Fiddling, and Writing Original Tunes)

    December 4th, 2024  |  1 hr 11 mins
    banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, original tunes

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Brandon Godman! We recorded this in November at Brandon’s San Francisco shop, The Fiddle Mercantile.

  • Episode 431: Omar Ruiz-Lopez (with special guest Jason Krivo Flores)

    November 27th, 2024  |  1 hr 5 mins
    banjo, bass guitar, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guittaron, old time fiddle, original songs

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Omar Ruiz-Lopez, with special guest Jason Krivo Flores! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 430: Irene Herrmann (Old Time Mandolin and Fiddle and The Harmony Sisters)

    November 20th, 2024  |  55 mins 11 secs
    alice gerrard, banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, mandolin, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time mandolin, old time music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Irene Herrmann! We recorded this last week at her home in Santa Cruz, CA.

  • Episode 429: Forrest Carroll (Old Time for Oneself)

    November 13th, 2024  |  50 mins 40 secs
    banjo, 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 Forrest Carroll! We recorded this in October at Old Growth Old Time in Seattle, WA.

  • Episode 428: Sadie Gustafson-Zook (Old Time Fiddle and Songwriting)

    November 6th, 2024  |  57 mins 12 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, 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 Sadie Gustafson-Zook! We recorded this in October in my home in Portland, OR.