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
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Episode 59: Lucas Pasley (First Hand Tunes)
September 20th, 2017 | 58 mins 3 secs
alleghany county, banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! I’m really excited for you to hear my interview with this week’s friend, Lucas Pasley, because Lucas has a real, personal connection to this music, and it’s rare to interview someone who studied so close to the source.
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Episode 58: Sonya Badigian (Four Syllables–Hard G)
September 13th, 2017 | 1 hr 9 mins
clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Sonya Badigian. I’m not sure exactly when I met Sonya; probably at Clifftop a few years ago, but I really got to know her when she invited me to her birthday party last fall back when she lived in Charlottesville, and I decided to go, on a whim, even though I barely knew her. Old Time music is cool like that.
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Episode 57: Craig Edwards (Feed Your Loa)
September 6th, 2017 | 1 hr 10 secs
blues, blues guitar, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Craig Edwards! We recorded this interview at the Harry Smith Frolic at the tail end of a thunderstorm, which I maintain is one of my favorite settings for recording this show.
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Episode 56: Libby Weitnauer (Live at Black Creek Fiddlers' Reunion)
August 30th, 2017 | 44 mins 4 secs
banjo, black creek fiddlers' reunion, fiddle, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Libby Weitnauer! We recorded this interview in front of a live audience at Black Creek Fiddlers’ Reunion, and I’ve been really excited to share it, because Libby is a wonderful fiddler and she’s lovely to talk to.
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Episode 55: Hilarie Burhans (Queen of Burhania)
August 23rd, 2017 | 58 mins 51 secs
banjo duet, clawhammer banjo, old time music, original tunes, podcast
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is clawhammer banjoist, restaurateur, and queen of Burhania, Hilarie Burhans.
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Episode 54: Rusty and Nancy Neithammer (Twin Fiddling/Hanging Out with Tommy)
August 16th, 2017 | 41 mins 52 secs
clawhammer banjo, get up in the cool, old time music, podcast, twin fiddling
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Rusty and Nancy Neithammer! I’ve been trying to get them on the show for quite a while, because they’re the best. And they have awesome stories about hanging out with Tommy Jarrell and Bruce Greene!
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Episode 53: Seth Swingle (Old Banjo Tunes in Rare Tunings)
August 9th, 2017 | 53 mins 4 secs
2-finger banjo, 3-finger banjo, banjo, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, old time music, seeger-style banjo
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This is a very special episode of Get Up in the Cool, because my guest is Seth Swingle.
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Episode 52: Joe Showalter (Tunes from Two Gun Terry)
July 26th, 2017 | 52 mins 14 secs
clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Joe Showalter.
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Episode 51: Jake Blount (Reparations)
July 19th, 2017 | 1 hr 20 mins
banjo duet, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, jake blount, old time, original tunes
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s guest is one of my dearest friends in the Old Time community, Jake Blount, and this is his second appearance on Get Up in the Cool.
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Episode 50: Spencer & Rains (Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas Fiddle Tunes)
July 12th, 2017 | 57 mins 57 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, kansas, oklahoma, texas, twin fiddling
Welcome to episode 50 of Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. That’s right! 50 episodes! Technically 53, but 3 of those are rebroadcasts or best of episodes, so they don’t count.
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Episode 49: Palmer and Greg Loux (Old Time Power Couple/Run of the Mill String Band)
July 5th, 2017 | 1 hr 10 mins
clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Palmer and Greg Loux from Run of the Mill String Band!
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Episode 48: Scotty Leach (Keeps Coming Back to Old Time)
June 28th, 2017 | 1 hr 1 min
canadian tunes, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time music, scotty leach
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Scotty Leach! Scotty was one of the first names on my list when I started asking people to be on my show, because he was basically the first friend I made at my first Clifftop. That was almost 4 years ago, and I think playing with Scotty that week was yet another point of no return for me and my relationship with Old Time music.
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Episode 47: Patrick Heavner (Pisgah Banjo Co.)
June 21st, 2017 | 56 mins 45 secs
banjo builder, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Patrick Heavner, the CEO and founder of Pisgah Banjo Company. If you’re a banjo nerd, this episode’s for you: we talk a lot of shop.
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Episode 46: Ethan Hawkins (If You're Not Having Fun, You're Not Doing it Right)
June 14th, 2017 | 50 mins 10 secs
banjo, cameron dewhitt, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, ethan hawkins, flatpicking, guitar
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool, Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is one of my favorite flat-pickers, songwriters, and old time musicians, Ethan Hawkins.
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Episode 45: Kilby Spencer (Old Time Hand-Me-Downs)
June 7th, 2017 | 1 hr 1 min
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, kilby spencer
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Kilby Spencer, and he’s kind of my new favorite fiddler.
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Episode 44: Mark Simos (The Other Side of Complexity)
May 31st, 2017 | 1 hr 7 mins
cameron dewhitt, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, mark simos, original tunes
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Mark Simos, fiddler and professor at Berklee College of Music.