Get Up in the Cool - Episodes Tagged with “Songwriting”

Episode 479: Golden Shoals (Live at Old Growth Old Time w/ Special Guest Host Doreen Ditties of Tradwife)

Cameron DeWhitt — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Amy Alvey and Mark Kilianski of Golden Shoals! They recorded this a few weeks ago in front of a live audience at Old Growth Old Time in Seattle. I say they and not we because this episode of Get Up in the Cool actually had a guest host, Doreen Ditties, of Tradwife Stringband.

Tunes in this episode:

Milwaukee Blues (1:20)
Easy Money (Golden Shoals original) (7:58)
Settle Down (16:44)
Turn the Radio On (Golden Shoals original) (28:54)
The New White House Blues (Golden Shoals original + tradition) (33:34)
Blue Railroad Train (Delmore Brothers original) (42:56)

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Episode 453: Brian Dolphin (Writing Original Tunes)

Cameron DeWhitt — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Brian Dolphin! We recorded this recently in Baltimore.

Tunes in this episode:

Ducks on the Pond (0:40)
Old Ford (Brian Dolphin original) (12:28)
Squirrel in the Fig Tree (Brian Dolphin original) (28:12)
Robin in the Field (Brian Dolphin original) (42:22)
Daylight Savings (Brian Dolphin original) (47:18)
John Newlin’s Waltz (Brian Dolphin original) (1:01:35)
BONUS TRACK: Annie’s Tune (Brian Dolphin original)

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Episode 446: Carolyn Kendrick (Tradition, Reactionary Politics, and the Satanic Panic)

Cameron DeWhitt — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0700

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

Tunes in this episode:

Happy Hollow (1:09)
Wind and Rain (19:12)
Are You Washed (42:38)
A Perfect World (Carolyn Kendrick music, David Keig words) (1:00:40)
Leela (1:09:50)
Bonus Track: Lost Girl

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Episode 443: T-Claw (Square Dance Calling)

Cameron DeWhitt — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0800

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.

Tunes in this episode:

Found Girl (T-Claw original) (0:38)
Rats Gone to Rest (10:02)
Paddy Won’t You Drink Some Good Old Cider (19:42)
Wild Hog in the Woods (34:51)
Fortune (57:33)
Bonus Track: McLeod’s Reel

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

Cameron DeWhitt — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0800

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.

Tunes in this episode:

Speed the Plow (3:13)
Tippin’ Back the Corn (Jordan Wankoff original) (17:13)
Gentle on my Mind (John Hartford original) (25:00)
Break the Ice (Sadie Gustafson-Zook original) (41:47)
Old Yeller Dog Come Trotting Through the Meeting House (52:20)
Bonus Track: Autumn’s Fragrance (Sadie Gustafson-Zook original)

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Episode 371: Rachel Baiman (John Hartford, Fiddle Camp Kids, and Commercial Validation)

Cameron DeWhitt — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0700

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Rachel Baiman. We recorded this at Valley of the Moon.

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Tune in this episode:

Fisher’s Hornpipe (2:08)
Over the Road to Maysville (14:11)
Self Made Man (24:44)
Lovers and Leavers (35:43)
Lost Girl (40:43)
Bonus Track: Old Songs Never Die

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Episode 339: Cristina Vane (Old Time Banjo, Delta blues, and Songwriting)

Cameron DeWhitt — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0800

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Cristina Vane. We recorded this a few weeks ago in her home in Nashville.

Songs in this episode:

Pretty Little Shoes (0:39)
Duck River (11:25)
The Mountain (Cristina Vane original) (22:29)
Nine Pound Hammer (33:21)
Backstep Cindy (38:38)
Bonus track: Rock Andy

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Episode 224: Kathleen Parks (Bluegrass, Songwriting, and Altruism)

Cameron DeWhitt — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0800

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Kathleen Parks! We recorded last month over Skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.

Tunes and songs in this episode:
Willow Creek
Other Than Yourself
$7.50 to Denmark
Spider Shoe
Long Hot Summer Day
Bonus track: Blue Yodel Number Three

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Episode 221: Kaia Kater (Non-Consensual Mentors, The Death Knell of the CD Table, and Overeager Allies)

Cameron DeWhitt — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0800

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! It’s the third week of Get Up in the Cool month; I saved some very special interviews hoping you’ll be moved to support the show. This week’s friend is songwriter, old time musician, and banjoist Kaia Kater. We recorded this last month over skype and I recorded my musical parts afterwards.

Tunes in this episode:
Little Pink
Valley Forge
Undone in Sorrow
Skating on the Harbourfront (Chris Coole original)
Nine Pin
Bonus track: Salt River

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Episode 146: Collin Stackhouse (Learned to Fiddle in Alaska and Play the Banjo in Antarctica)

Cameron DeWhitt — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0700

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

Tunes in this episode:
Icy Mountain
(unknown title)
Three Tenuous Lines
Burn it Down (to the tune of Snowdrop)
Vill Du Flyga (original by Leija Lautamaja)
Bonus track: Through the Gate

Visit Collin Stackhouse’s website: https://www.collinstackhouse.com/
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