Get Up in the Cool

Episode 459: Ben Traverse (Folk Songs, Lomax, and Music from Michigan)

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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Ben Traverse! I recorded them in May at the Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend in Remus, Michigan.

Tunes in this episode:

  • Raging Canal (Sent My Brown Jug Downtown) (0:50)
  • Lost on the Lady Elgin (10:08)
  • Who Feeds Us Beans (23:43)
  • Beaver Dam Road (40:55)
  • Shenandoah (47:09)
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