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 357: Call Up in the Cool No. 1
June 28th, 2023 | 1 hr 1 min
banjo, call in episode, clawhammer banjo, old time banjo, old time music, requests
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This is a special call-in episode. Thanks for submitting your questions and requests, folks! I'd love to do this again, so send submissions to getupinthecool@gmail (thanks)!
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Episode 356: Brooks Masten (Banjo Making and Custom Ordered Happiness)
June 21st, 2023 | 1 hr 17 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 Brooks Masten. We recorded this last week at his home in Portland, OR.
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Episode 355: Kate Kerr (Pretty Shaky String Band, Authenticity, and Old Time in Colorado)
June 14th, 2023 | 39 mins 43 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, 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 Kate Kerr with special guest guitarist Morgan Harris. We recorded this last month at Kate’s home in Lyons, CO.
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Call in episode announcement and request for questions!
June 11th, 2023 | 1 min 13 secs
Hey everybody I want to do a CALL IN episode of sorts and I need y’all to submit questions and tune recommendations! The deadline is this Wednesday, June 14th at 11:59pm. Just email your questions to [email protected] or use the contact form at getupinthecool.com. EXTRA CREDIT for those of you who make a voice memo on your phone and send that to me so I can play it on the air.
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Episode 354: Needle & Thread (Ella and Maddy Zuellig)
June 7th, 2023 | 37 mins 13 secs
banjo, clara delfina, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, ola belle reed, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music, old time songs, twin fiddling
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Ella and Maddy Zuellig of Needle & Thread. We recorded this last week at their home in Fort Collins, CO.
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Episode 353: George Jackson (The Old Time 100)
May 31st, 2023 | 1 hr 13 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 George Jackson. We recorded this last week at Bob Zuellig’s house in Fort Collins, CO.
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Episode 352: Alan Murray and Andrew Finn Magill (Trad Music Mythology and Old Time Curious Bouzouki)
May 24th, 2023 | 38 mins 11 secs
banjo, bouzouki, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, irish music, jigs, old time banjo, old time bouzouki, old time fiddle, old time music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Alan Murray and Andrew Finn Magill. We recorded on Saturday at my home in Portland, OR.
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Episode 351: Six Dollar String Band (Traditional Trance Music)
May 17th, 2023 | 58 mins 47 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, double bass, drop d, drop d guitar, fiddle, guitar, old time banjo, old time bass, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music, string bass, upright bass
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are the members of Six Dollar String Band: Tony Holmquist, Brendan Shafer, Stephen Sellers, and Robin Davis. We recorded this last month at the Durango Bluegrass Meltdown in Colorado.
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Episode 350: Adrian Gross (Slocan Ramblers, John Hartford's Windows, and the Gifts of a Small Scene)
May 10th, 2023 | 1 hr 2 mins
banjo, clawhammer banjo, mandolin, 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 Adrian Gross. We recorded this last month at the Durango Bluegrass Meltdown in Colorado.
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Episode 349: The Arcane Ramblers (Old Time in Taos, NM)
May 3rd, 2023 | 36 mins 31 secs
banjo, bluegrass banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, mandolin, 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 friends are The Arcane Ramblers: Robert Quijano, Tom Robison, and Bud Branch. We recorded this last month in Bud’s home in Taos, NM.
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Episode 348: Tone Dog (Old Time in Durango, CO)
April 26th, 2023 | 40 mins 47 secs
banjo, bass, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, old time banjo, old time bass, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music, twin fiddling
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are the members of Tone Dog: Tony Holmquist, Alex Graf, and Silas Hamilton. We recorded this last weekend at the Durango Bluegrass Meltdown in Colorado.
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Episode 347: Kate Gregory (Claiming Old Time Status, Hiking Social Hierarchy, and the Ministry of Folk)
April 19th, 2023 | 43 mins 57 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! This week’s friend is Kate Gregory. We recorded this a couple weeks ago in my home in Portland, OR.
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Episode 346: Jhana Allan (Old Time, Romanian Music, and Songwriting)
April 12th, 2023 | 51 mins 37 secs
banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, mandolin, old time fiddle, old time mandolin, old time music, original songs, romanian music
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jhana Allan. We recorded this back in February in Kansas City.
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Episode 345: Sweater Weather String Band (The Cascadia Book of Fiddle Tunes)
April 5th, 2023 | 39 mins 25 secs
banjo, bass, clawhammer banjo, double banjos, fiddle, guitar, old time banjo, old time fiddle, old time guitar, old time music, old time string band, original tunes, string band
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Sweater Weather String Band. We recorded this last month in my home in Portland, Oregon.
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Episode 344: Flynn Cohen (Edden Hammons, Irish Music, and Flatpicking Fiddle Tunes)
March 29th, 2023 | 48 mins 35 secs
ballad singing, banjo, clawhammer banjo, drone, edden hammons, irish music, mandolin, old time banjo, old time mandolin, old time music, shruti box
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Flynn Cohen. We recorded this last month in my home in Portland, Oregon.
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Episode 343: Tray Wellington (Bluegrass Banjo and Oppositional Self Expression)
March 22nd, 2023 | 54 mins 54 secs
banjo duet, bluegrass banjo, clawhammer banjo, 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 Tray Wellington. We recorded this last month in Bellevue, Washington at Wintergrass.