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 285: Erik Killops (Portland Trad Music Scenes, Earl White Acolytes, and Bowing for Old Time)

    February 9th, 2022  |  54 mins 12 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, earl white, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, rayna gellert

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

  • Episode 284: Tall Poppy String Band (w/ Special Guest Host Jake Blount!)

    February 2nd, 2022  |  1 hr 12 mins
    african american string band music, black string band music, bluegrass guitar, bluegrass music, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, flatpicking guitar, jake blount, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time flatpicking, 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 Morgan Harris, George Jackson, and me, as Tall Poppy String Band, with special guest host Jake Blount. We recorded this during IBMA back in February in Raleigh, NC.

  • Episode 283: Clinton Davis (Kentucky Fiddle Tunes and Missouri Rules)

    January 26th, 2022  |  42 mins 46 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, 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 friend is Clinton Davis. We recorded a few weeks ago at my home in Portland, Oregon.

  • Episode 282: Ella Korth (Folk Songs, Flatpicking, and Clawhammer Banjo)

    January 19th, 2022  |  36 mins 20 secs
    bluegrass guitar, bluegrass music, clawhammer banjo, fiddle tunes on guitar, guitar, john hartford, old time banjo, old time guitar, old time music, old time piano, piano, tim o'brien

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Ella Korth. We recorded at my home in Portland, Oregon.

  • Episode 281: Dwight Hawkins (Street Performing, Playing the Saw, and Black Stringband and Blues Music)

    January 12th, 2022  |  55 mins 17 secs
    black stringband music, blues music, clawhammer banjo

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

  • Episode 280: Michelle Yu (Tunes with Nothing to Hide Behind)

    January 5th, 2022  |  1 hr 4 mins
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, 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 Michelle Yu. We recorded this on Sunday in her home in San Francisco.

  • Episode 279: Kaden Hurst (Old Time Mandolin, Never Come Down, and Sierra Fiddle Camp)

    December 29th, 2021  |  53 mins 56 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, irish music, mandolin, old time banjo, old time mandolin, old time music, original tunes, slip jig

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Kaden Hurst. We recorded this a couple weeks ago at my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 278: Kate O'Brien (Teaching and Learning the Fiddle)

    December 22nd, 2021  |  1 hr 2 mins
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, 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 Kate O’Brien. We recorded this a couple weeks ago at my home in Portland, OR.

  • Episode 277: Get Up in the Yule (with Hog-Eyed Man)

    December 15th, 2021  |  1 hr 31 mins
    banjo, banjo uke, christmas music, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, lap dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music

    Welcome to Get Up in the Yule: Old Time Christmas Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Rob McMacon and Jason Cade of Hog-Eyed Man. We recorded this a couple weeks ago over Zoom.

  • Episode 276: Emma Swartz and Baron Collins-Hill (Expat Folk Music and Maine Fiddle Camp)

    December 8th, 2021  |  1 hr 14 mins
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, mandolin, old time banjo, 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 Emma Swartz and Baron Collins-Hill. We recorded this last Saturday at their home in Portland, Oregon.

  • Episode 275: Keith Billik (The Picky Fingers Banjo Podcast / Get Up in the Cool Crossover!)

    December 1st, 2021  |  1 hr 41 mins
    banjo duet, bluegrass banjo, clawhammer banjo, old time banjo, old time music, podcast crossover, three-finger banjo

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! Also, welcome to The Picky Fingers Banjo Podcast! Keith Billik and I did a crossover podcast back in early October at IBMA in Raleigh, North Carolina. If you’re not already subscribed, go follow Picky Fingers wherever you get your podcasts!

  • Episode 274: Kate Gregory (Old Time and Irish Fiddle)

    November 24th, 2021  |  1 hr 5 mins
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, irish fiddling, irish music, 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 Kate Gregory. We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, Oregon.

  • Episode 273: Magic Tuber Stringband (Courtney Werner and Evan Morgan)

    November 17th, 2021  |  44 mins 20 secs
    banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, harmonium, harry smith, old time banjo, 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 Courtney Werner and Evan Morgan of Magic Tuber Stringband. We recorded this in September at IBMA in Raleigh, North Carolina.

  • Episode 272: Sinner Friends (Country Gospel Music)

    November 10th, 2021  |  36 mins 40 secs
    banjo, baritone ukulele, clawhammer banjo, country gospel, country music, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, original tunes, uke, ukulele

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Grace Van’t Hof and Conner Steven Vlietstra of Sinner Friends. We recorded this in September at IBMA in Raleigh, North Carolina.

  • Episode 271: Brandi Waller-Pace, Nelson Williams, and Jake Blount (Old Time Bass, FWAAMfest, and Post-Quarantine Touring)

    November 3rd, 2021  |  43 mins 23 secs
    banjo, bass, black banjo music, black fiddle music, black old time music, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time music, upright bass

    Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Brandi Waller-Pace, Nelson Williams, and Jake Blount. We recorded this in September at IBMA in Raleigh, North Carolina.

  • Episode 270: George Jackson (Hair & Hide)

    October 27th, 2021  |  55 mins 33 secs
    banjo, clawhammer 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! It’s the fourth and final week of Get Up in the Cool month; every year I post some extra special interviews in hopes that you’ll be moved to support the show. This week’s extra special guest is George Jackson! We recorded this about a month ago at IBMA in Raleigh, North Carolina.