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:

January 14, 2026Episode 490: Butterchurch (Smörkyrka)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Liam Barnes, Isabel Dammann, and Collin Stackhouse of Butterchurch, AKA Smörkyrka! We recorded this on Saturday in my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Slängpolska efter Juringius (0:42)
1814 (8:14)
Eklundapolska 1 (17:06)
Slängpolska från Barsebäck (32:41)
Vrigstad (39:48)
BONUS TRACK: Nail that Catfish to a Tree
Follow Butterchurch on Instagram
See Tradwife in Vancouver
and at the Bellingham Folk Festival
Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
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Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series!
Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron
Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website
and follow us on Instagram
follow Sweeten the Third on Instagram
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...more
43min
January 07, 2026Episode 489: Will McKay (Old Time Songs and How to Insert them into Jams)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Will McKay! We recorded this on Monday in my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
All the Good Times Are Past and Gone (0:36)
I Am a Pilgrim (12:13)
Booth (19:40)
Tear Down the Fences (Ola Belle Reed original) (28:28)
Silver Dagger (to the tune of Ola Belle Reed’s Undone in Sorrow) (41:51)
BONUS TRACK: Rain and Snow
Buy Old Barn Preservation Society’s album on Bandcamp
Follow them on Instagram
See Tradwife in Vancouver
and at the Bellingham Folk Festival
Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas
Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series!
Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron
Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website
and follow us on Instagram
follow Sweeten the Third on Instagram
Support Get Up in the Cool
...more
46min
December 31, 2025Episode 488: Eli Broxham (Music, Pleasure, the Body, and Labor)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Eli Broxham! We recorded this earlier in the month at his home in Nashville.
Tunes in this episode:
Fine Times at Our House (0:30)
Old Horse and Buggy (16:54)
Julianne Johnson (38:07)
Shove that Pig’s Foot a Little Further into the Fire (52:26)
Liza Jane (1:01:15)
BONUS TRACK: Susanna Gal
Visit Eli Broxham’s website
Visit Dallas Ugly’s website
Follow Eli on Instagram
Follow Dallas Ugly on Instagram
Sign up for my Playing Up the Neck online workshop series before Jan. 7
Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas
Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series!
Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron
Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website
and follow us on Instagram
follow Sweeten the Third on Instagram
Support Get Up in the Cool
...more
1h 6min
December 24, 2025Episode 487: The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project (Sharon Gilchrist, Rachel Baiman, and Ella Korth)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Sharon Gilchrist, Rachel Baiman, and Ella Korth, of The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project! We recorded this last week at Rachel’s home in Madison, TN.
Tunes in this episode (all John Hartford originals):
Takes Her Clothes Off (0:36)
Not Soft Enough (11:28)
Don’t Throw Her Down (21:39)
Living Upstairs (38:55)
Long White Road (47:12)
BONUS TRACK: Madison
Visit John Hartford’s website to buy his fiddle tune albums
Visit The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project’s website for tour dates and booking
Follow John Hartford on Instagram
Take Sharon Gilchrist’s Peghead Nation bluegrass mandolin course
Follow Sharon Gilchrist on Instagram
Follow Rachel Baiman on Instagram
Follow Ella Korth on Instagram
Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas
Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series!
Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron
Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website
and follow us on Instagram
follow Sweeten the Third on Instagram
Support Get Up in the Cool
...more
51min
December 17, 2025Episode 486: Brittany Haas (Old Time Fiddle)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Brittany Haas! We recorded this last weekend at her home in Nashville.
Tunes in this episode:
Hawk is a Mule (Andrew Marlin original) (0:33)
Waynesboro (9:28)
Old Aunt Jenny with Her Nightcap On (24:56)
Polska efter Nylands Olle (36:30)
Half Past Four (41:10)
BONUS TRACK: Sugar in the Coffee
Buy Brittany Haas’s albums on Bandcamp
Visit Brittany Haas’s website
Follow her on Instagram
Visit Punchbrothers’ website
Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas
Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series!
Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron
Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website
and follow us on Instagram
follow Sweeten the Third on Instagram
Support Get Up in the Cool
...more
46min
December 10, 2025Episode 485: Get Up in the Yule (with Dear Crow)
Welcome to Get Up in the Yule: Holiday Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This year’s friends are Penka Jane Culevski and Brian Lindsay of Dear Crow! We recorded this the day after Thanksgiving in their home in Olympia, WA.
Tunes in this episode:
James Crase’s Christmas Time’s A Comin’ (0:50)
Gloucestershire Wassail (16:55)
Build Up the Bonfire (Zoe Mulford original) (30:28)
Christmas Eve (44:42)
Taylor Kimble’s Breaking Up Christmas (49:27)
BONUS TRACK: Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake
Visit Dear Crow’s website
and follow them on Instagram
Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas
Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series!
Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron
Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website
and follow us on Instagram
follow Sweeten the Third on Instagram
Support Get Up in the Cool
...more
57min
December 03, 2025Episode 484: Joe Seamons (Songs of the Pacific Northwest)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Joe Seamons! We recorded this last weekend at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Cedar Mill Boys (lyrics from Hobe Kytr) (1:13)
Waterbound (extra lyrics from Joe Seamons) (14:34)
Give the Fiddler a Dram (extra lyrics from John Cunnick) (30:12)
Same Old Wind (John and Kim Cunnick original) (39:21)
Memphis Blues (W.C. Handy original) (55:35)
BONUS TRACK: Love, Love Alone (John Hardy original)
Follow Joe Seamons on Instagram
Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas
Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series!
Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron
Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website
and follow us on Instagram
follow Sweeten the Third on Instagram
Support Get Up in the Cool
...more
1h
November 26, 2025Episode 483: River Scheuerell and Alex Sturbaum (Old Time with Irish Back-Up Guitar)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are River Scheuerell and Alex Sturbaum! We recorded this last week at Alex’s home in Olympia, WA.
Tunes in this episode:
Half Irish (1:03)
Rocking in the Weary Land (9:15)
Winderslide (20:14)
Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom (29:26)
Bob’s Farewell (37:47)
BONUS TRACK: Gunboat
Visit River Scheuerell’s website
and follow him on Instagram
Visit Alex Sturbaum’s website
and follow them on Instagram
Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas
Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series!
Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron
Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website
and follow us on Instagram
Support Get Up in the Cool
...more
43min
November 19, 2025Episode 482: Darin Gentry (Learning from Dwight Diller)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Darin Gentry! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Half Past Four (0:54)
Greasy String (25:10)
Paddy on the Turnpike (44:00)
Dwight Diller’s Cumberland Gap (50:27)
Sally Ann (1:11:53)
BONUS TRACK: Yew Piney Mountain
Visit Darin Gentry’s website
Buy to Darin and Dwight Diller’s album
Follow Darin on YouTube
Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas
Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series!
Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron
Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website
and follow us on Instagram
Support Get Up in the Cool
...more
1h 20min
November 12, 2025Episode 481: Lillian Sawyer (Agendaless Music)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Lillian Sawyer! We recorded this on Sunday at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Walk Along John to Kansas (0:40)
Johnny Court the Widow (20:52)
Speed the Plow (46:24)
Farewell Princeton (51:32)
Come On Old Paint, Let's Get On Up That Hill (Bach Bui original) (58:42)
BONUS TRACK: Five Miles from Town
Visit Lillian Sawyer’s website
and follow her on Instagram
Visit Never Come Down’s website
And follow them on Instagram
Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas
Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series!
Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron
Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website
and follow us on Instagram
Support Get Up in the Cool
...more
1h 4min

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