Get Up in the Cool

By 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 interviewe... more

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Get Up in the Cool episodes:

July 23, 2025Episode 465: Gray Dawson (Teaching Traditional Music and Addressing Disability at Festivals and Camps)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Gray Dawson! I recorded them in June at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI.
Tunes in this episode:
The Crooked Stovepipe (0:51)
Little Burnt Potato (08:47)
Pays De Haut (23:25)
The Saint Lawrence Jig (42:23)
Sheenboro Hop (46:43)
BONUS TRACK: Spootiskerry
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50min
July 16, 2025Episode 464: [FIXED AUDIO] Ruby John (Indigenous Identity and Fiddling)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Ruby John! I recorded her in June at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI.
Tunes in this episode:
Fox Family Reel (Andy de Jarlis original) (0:38)
Sourgrass and Granite (Brian Pickell original) (32:09)
The Green Eyed G**** (Budd Greenman original) (53:58)
Golden Ticket (Eric Merrill original) (1:21:13)
Growling Old Man and Old Woman (1:26:20)
BONUS TRACK: Saddle Old Paint (from Chief Red Bird)
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1h 30min
July 09, 2025Episode 463: Afton Coombs (Flatfooting)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Afton Coombs! I recorded them in June at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI.
Here's the link to the YouTube playlist of tunes from this episode!
Tunes in this episode:
Devil in the Strawstack (1:05)
John Lusk’s Apple Blossom (13:33)
The Blackest Crow (26:39)
Cookhouse Joe (39:37)
Great Big Taters (46:36)
BONUS TRACK: The Cuckoo
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52min
July 02, 2025Episode 462: Lazy Susan (Kelly Madewell and Iris Cooke)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Kelly Madewell and Iris Cooke, also known as Lazy Susan! I recorded them last week at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI.
Tunes in this episode:
Farewell Trion (0:34)
Cranberry Rock (10:24)
Five Miles from Town (27:46)
I’ve Endured (Ola Belle Reed original) (36:56)
Trouble in Mind (41:11)
BONUS TRACK: Rock Andy
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45min
June 25, 2025Episode 461: Richie & Rosie (Live from Inside the Baltimore Museum of Industry’s 1953 Packard Clipper)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Richie Stearns & Rosie Newton, also known as Richie & Rosie! I recorded them back in April at the Baltimore Old Time Music Festival.
Tunes in this episode:
Five Miles to Town (0:33)
Hang Me (6:35)
Glory in the Meetinghouse (18:08)
I Am With You Always (Richie & Rosie) (27:02)
BONUS TRACK: Roscoe (Cameron solo, because we ran out of time)
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31min
June 18, 2025Episode 460: Bruce Ling (Sharing Music and Energy feat. Austin Benzing)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Bruce Ling, with special guest guitarist Austin Benzing! I recorded them in May at the Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend in Remus, Michigan.
Tunes in this episode:
Fiddle’s Waltz (Bruce Ling original) (0:35)
Crawdad Shuffle (Bruce Ling original) (18:10)
High River Blues (Bruce Ling original) (35:24)
Deep Ellum Blues (49:09)
June Apple (55:37)
BONUS TRACK: Dubuque
Visit Hawks and Owls’ website
Email Bruce: [email protected]
Sign up for Great Lakes Music Camp
Follow Austin Benzing on Instagram
Buy tickets to see Tall Poppy String Band and Never Come Down at Mississippi Studios
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1h
June 11, 2025Episode 459: Ben Traverse (Folk Songs, Lomax, and Music from Michigan)
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)
BONUS TRACK: Birch Grove
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Buy Ben’s albums from Earthwork Music
Buy tickets to see Tall Poppy String Band and Never Come Down at Mississippi Studios
Sign up for the final Earful of Fiddle!
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52min
June 04, 2025Episode 458: Micah Ling (Dressing Tradition)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Micah Ling! We recorded this at her home in Lansing, MI, then we ran out of time, and we finished at Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend.
Songs and tunes in this episode:
Le Valse de la Rebec (Bruce Ling original) (1:05)
Are You Tired of Me, My Darling (19:19)
Maggie Meade (46:43)
Sister Thou Art Mild and Lovely (1:21:24)
Adieu False Heart (1:32:55)
BONUS TRACK: Coleman’s March
Email Micah Ling if you want to read her dissertation: [email protected]
Buy her album Kingdom Come
The last Earful of Fiddle Music & Dance Camp will happen in central Michigan on June 22-27. Join me, Becky Hill, Ben Nelson, AJ Srubas, Rina Rossi, Ruby John, Sheila Graziano, Bruce Bauman, Ethan Setiawan, Louise Bichan, Grace van’t Hof, Lindsay McCaw, and more for 5 days of classes, jams and dances. Learn from and hang with world-class contemporary trad musicians and dancers in a beautiful lakeside setting. For more information or to register, go to earfuloffiddle.com, which is linked in the show notes. See you at Earful!
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1h 37min
May 28, 2025Episode 457: Gray Buchanan (Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend and Original Tunes from Friends)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Gray Buchanan! We recorded this on Sunday at the Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend in Remus, Michigan. Thanks again for bringing Tall Poppy String Band out, Wheatland!
Tunes in this episode:
Oysters in the Half Shell (1:09) (Claire Silbernagel original)
Winter Break (8:56) (Isaac McCarthy original)
Bitter Star (18:00) (Gray Buchanan original)
One-Legged Cow on a Scratching Post (27:58) (Corey Johnson-Erday original)
Ramp Narrows (35:29) (Mary Linscheid original)
BONUS TRACK: Roscoe
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42min
May 21, 2025Episode 456: Joseph Decosimo (Shiny New Tunes and Human Limits)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Joseph Decosimo! We recorded this about a month ago at Sonya Badigian’s place in Durham, NC. Thanks again for hosting us, Sonya!
Tunes in this episode:
Blackberry Blossoms (0:41)
Betty Baker (14:48)
Two O’Clock (50:50)
Flowery Girls (1:13:46)
Puncheon Camps (1:16:20)
BONUS TRACK: Peas in the Pot (played by Cameron, because we ran out of time)
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Buy Beehive Cathedral and Joseph’s other albums on Bandcamp
Buy tickets to see Morgan Harris and Cameron DeWhitt at Detroit Folk School
[and at The Robin Theatre in Lansing](Morgan Harris & Cameron DeWhitt at The RobinThe Robin Theatrehttps://www.therobintheatre.com › events › morgan-har…)
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1h 21min

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