web01.fireside.fm Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:08:38 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Get Up in the Cool - Episodes Tagged with “Kentucky Fiddling” https://getupinthecool.fireside.fm/tags/kentucky%20fiddling Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800 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. en-us episodic Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends Cameron DeWhitt 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. no old time music, old time, old-time, old-time music, clawhammer, clawhammer banjo, banjo, old time banjo, interview, fiddle, old time fiddle, old-time fiddle, bluegrass Cameron DeWhitt camerondewhitt@gmail.com Episode 330: Dave Mount (Old Time Phases, Kentucky Square Bowing, and Learning Fiddle Under Pressure) https://getupinthecool.fireside.fm/330 10510493-52c7-4fc3-ab9e-74b5d3837630 Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800 Cameron DeWhitt full Cameron DeWhitt Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Dave Mount. We recorded this last week in my home in Portland, OR. 38:57 no Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Dave Mount. We recorded this last week in my home in Portland, OR. Songs in this episode: * Uncle Bunt Stephens’ Sail Away Ladies (0:32) * Rooshin’ Rabbit (8:06) * Bob Walters’ Cuckoo’s Nest (23:26) * Bill Driver’s Scott #2 (28:04) * The Beaux (36:23) * Bonus track: Thomas Dillon’s Grey Eagle Subscribe to Dave Mount YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@gambarunner Sign up for my January beginner and intermediate banjo workshops at https://www.camerondewhitt.com/store. Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Buy Get Up in the Cool merch like t-shirts, phone cases, and masks! https://get-up-in-the-cool-swag.creator-spring.com/ Sign up at https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/ for my clawhammer instructional series! Check out Cameron’s other podcast, Think Outside the Box Set: https://boxset.fireside.fm/ Check out Cameron’s old time trio Tall Poppy String Band: https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/ fiddle, old time fiddle, banjo, clawhammer banjo, old time banjo, old time music, kentucky fiddling, square bowing Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Dave Mount. We recorded this last week in my home in Portland, OR.

Songs in this episode:

  • Uncle Bunt Stephens’ Sail Away Ladies (0:32)
  • Rooshin’ Rabbit (8:06)
  • Bob Walters’ Cuckoo’s Nest (23:26)
  • Bill Driver’s Scott #2 (28:04)
  • The Beaux (36:23)
  • Bonus track: Thomas Dillon’s Grey Eagle

Subscribe to Dave Mount YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@gambarunner

Sign up for my January beginner and intermediate banjo workshops at https://www.camerondewhitt.com/store.

Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool
Buy Get Up in the Cool merch like t-shirts, phone cases, and masks! https://get-up-in-the-cool-swag.creator-spring.com/
Sign up at https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/ for my clawhammer instructional series!
Check out Cameron’s other podcast, Think Outside the Box Set: https://boxset.fireside.fm/
Check out Cameron’s old time trio Tall Poppy String Band: https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/

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]]> Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Dave Mount. We recorded this last week in my home in Portland, OR.

Songs in this episode:

  • Uncle Bunt Stephens’ Sail Away Ladies (0:32)
  • Rooshin’ Rabbit (8:06)
  • Bob Walters’ Cuckoo’s Nest (23:26)
  • Bill Driver’s Scott #2 (28:04)
  • The Beaux (36:23)
  • Bonus track: Thomas Dillon’s Grey Eagle

Subscribe to Dave Mount YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@gambarunner

Sign up for my January beginner and intermediate banjo workshops at https://www.camerondewhitt.com/store.

Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool
Buy Get Up in the Cool merch like t-shirts, phone cases, and masks! https://get-up-in-the-cool-swag.creator-spring.com/
Sign up at https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/ for my clawhammer instructional series!
Check out Cameron’s other podcast, Think Outside the Box Set: https://boxset.fireside.fm/
Check out Cameron’s old time trio Tall Poppy String Band: https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/

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]]> Episode 20: Stephen Landis (Fiddle Hermit) https://getupinthecool.fireside.fm/20 e33330ac-2282-4879-b83c-6aa3c6ae9f12 Wed, 16 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0800 Cameron DeWhitt full Cameron DeWhitt Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s guest, Stephen Landis, is a close friend of mine, and I often look to him when I’m contemplating how to be; which is why I’m releasing his interview now, even though I only recorded it a week or so ago. Also, Stephen introduced me to Old Time, and I’m very grateful to him. Not just for teaching me my first tunes, but for sharing his reverence for the tradition.  1:09:09 yes Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. How are you doing? It’s been a rough week. I know I’ve been feeling anxious, pent up. Some of you have been binge listening NPR and Facebooking yourselves to sleep; just leaning into to the discomfort. Others of you, like me, have been checking out. Deleting social media apps on your phone, engaging in lots of escapism; maybe overeating a bit. This week’s guest, Stephen Landis, is a close friend of mine, and I often look to him when I’m contemplating how to be; which is why I’m releasing his interview now, even though I only recorded it a week or so ago. Also, Stephen introduced me to Old Time, and I’m very grateful to him. Not just for teaching me my first tunes, but for sharing his reverence for the tradition.  Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: http://patreon.com/getupinthecool/  Check out Stephen’s fiddling in these bands: https://sethmartinandthemenders.bandcamp.com/  https://psalters.bandcamp.com/  http://weareonthewater.com/ old time music, fiddle, kentucky fiddling, clawhammer banjo, get up in the cool, stephen landis, cameron dewhitt Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. How are you doing? It’s been a rough week. I know I’ve been feeling anxious, pent up. Some of you have been binge listening NPR and Facebooking yourselves to sleep; just leaning into to the discomfort. Others of you, like me, have been checking out. Deleting social media apps on your phone, engaging in lots of escapism; maybe overeating a bit. This week’s guest, Stephen Landis, is a close friend of mine, and I often look to him when I’m contemplating how to be; which is why I’m releasing his interview now, even though I only recorded it a week or so ago. Also, Stephen introduced me to Old Time, and I’m very grateful to him. Not just for teaching me my first tunes, but for sharing his reverence for the tradition. 

Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon:
http://patreon.com/getupinthecool/ 
Check out Stephen’s fiddling in these bands:
https://sethmartinandthemenders.bandcamp.com/ 
https://psalters.bandcamp.com/ 
http://weareonthewater.com/

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]]> Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. How are you doing? It’s been a rough week. I know I’ve been feeling anxious, pent up. Some of you have been binge listening NPR and Facebooking yourselves to sleep; just leaning into to the discomfort. Others of you, like me, have been checking out. Deleting social media apps on your phone, engaging in lots of escapism; maybe overeating a bit. This week’s guest, Stephen Landis, is a close friend of mine, and I often look to him when I’m contemplating how to be; which is why I’m releasing his interview now, even though I only recorded it a week or so ago. Also, Stephen introduced me to Old Time, and I’m very grateful to him. Not just for teaching me my first tunes, but for sharing his reverence for the tradition. 

Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon:
http://patreon.com/getupinthecool/ 
Check out Stephen’s fiddling in these bands:
https://sethmartinandthemenders.bandcamp.com/ 
https://psalters.bandcamp.com/ 
http://weareonthewater.com/

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]]> Episode 15: *SEE EPISODE NOTES* Nikos Pappas (Kentucky Fiddling) https://getupinthecool.fireside.fm/15 d331b019-7486-464a-a47c-16d6010083ff Wed, 12 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0700 Cameron DeWhitt full Cameron DeWhitt This week’s guest is Nikos Pappas. Please see the full episode description for important updates regarding this interview. 45:39 no _UPDATE: _ This episode was recorded at the Appalachian String Band Festival in August 2016 and released on October 12, 2016. In July 2017 Pappas pled guilty (http://tennesseestar.com/2017/07/25/former-university-of-alabama-professor-pleads-guilty-to-child-pornography-charges/?fbclid=IwAR2KzoZbfzP8jt3c0TOpMcCkpFJClzwPpYApbYwkEs05vqmaqXEpwcSQ1Lk) to charges of receiving and possessing child pornography (https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/former-ua-music-professor-charged-receiving-possessing-child-pornography?fbclid=IwAR1cIKCbbsdxveWpkTvysM8oMDhYXbgdHGHMoCl6rFrFUXhg5D4N7eQ-bSU). In November 2017 he was sentenced to serve six years in federal prison (https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/news/20171130/former-ua-music-teacher-sentenced-on-child-porn-charges?fbclid=IwAR3ulw9LP775D5i6GGO2OZc1cdbIlcJNoEVmu8jHIdxCloI7IBlUZb9xC1E). The rest of the show notes are the complete original post from October 12, 2016. His album Lost in the Lowlands has been removed from June Appal Recordings; the link no longer works. Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend was named Kentucky Master Fiddle Player by The National Endowment of the Arts, and I’m real proud to have him on the show. His name is Nikos Pappas, and he’s got trills for days. Also, he’s got his PhD in Musicology and Ethnomusicology, so by the end of this episode, you’ll know what a “negative tropism” is and how to use it in your day to day life. But, academic as he is, Nikos has a very earnest love for this music and its history; you can hear it in his playing and his stories. You’re really going to like this one. Check out Nikos Pappas' Lost in the Lowlands: https://www.appalshop.org/store/june-appal-recordings/nikos-pappas-lost-in-the-lowlands/   Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Check out my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/camerondewhitt Like Get Up in the Cool on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getupinthecool fiddle, clawhammer banjo, old time music, old-time, kentucky fiddling, nikos pappas, cameron dewhitt, get up in the cool _UPDATE: _

This episode was recorded at the Appalachian String Band Festival in August 2016 and released on October 12, 2016. In July 2017 Pappas pled guilty to charges of receiving and possessing child pornography. In November 2017 he was sentenced to serve six years in federal prison.

The rest of the show notes are the complete original post from October 12, 2016. His album Lost in the Lowlands has been removed from June Appal Recordings; the link no longer works.

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend was named Kentucky Master Fiddle Player by The National Endowment of the Arts, and I’m real proud to have him on the show. His name is Nikos Pappas, and he’s got trills for days. Also, he’s got his PhD in Musicology and Ethnomusicology, so by the end of this episode, you’ll know what a “negative tropism” is and how to use it in your day to day life. But, academic as he is, Nikos has a very earnest love for this music and its history; you can hear it in his playing and his stories. You’re really going to like this one.

Check out Nikos Pappas' Lost in the Lowlands: https://www.appalshop.org/store/june-appal-recordings/nikos-pappas-lost-in-the-lowlands/  

Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool

Check out my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/camerondewhitt

Like Get Up in the Cool on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getupinthecool

Support Get Up in the Cool

]]> _UPDATE: _

This episode was recorded at the Appalachian String Band Festival in August 2016 and released on October 12, 2016. In July 2017 Pappas pled guilty to charges of receiving and possessing child pornography. In November 2017 he was sentenced to serve six years in federal prison.

The rest of the show notes are the complete original post from October 12, 2016. His album Lost in the Lowlands has been removed from June Appal Recordings; the link no longer works.

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend was named Kentucky Master Fiddle Player by The National Endowment of the Arts, and I’m real proud to have him on the show. His name is Nikos Pappas, and he’s got trills for days. Also, he’s got his PhD in Musicology and Ethnomusicology, so by the end of this episode, you’ll know what a “negative tropism” is and how to use it in your day to day life. But, academic as he is, Nikos has a very earnest love for this music and its history; you can hear it in his playing and his stories. You’re really going to like this one.

Check out Nikos Pappas' Lost in the Lowlands: https://www.appalshop.org/store/june-appal-recordings/nikos-pappas-lost-in-the-lowlands/  

Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool

Check out my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/camerondewhitt

Like Get Up in the Cool on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getupinthecool

Support Get Up in the Cool

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