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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October 15, 2025Episode 477: George Jackson (The Old Time 100 Vol. 2 and Making Art with Fiddle Tunes)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is George Jackson! We recorded this a couple weeks ago in Myrtle Beach.
Tunes in this episode:
Rye Straw (0:50)
Tilman Pyeatt’s Angeline the Baker (13:46)
Happy Hollow (19:30)
Beef Demon (George Jackson original) (31:54)
Shady Lane (48:02)
BONUS TRACK: Esker Hutchins’ Cumberland Gap
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1h 2min
October 08, 2025Episode 476: Kelsey Sutton (Flatfooting and Ballad Singing)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Kelsey Sutton! We recorded this in September at the Queer and Trans Old Time Music Gathering.
Tunes in this episode:
Sail Away Ladies (0:55)
Henry King’s Reel (Trevor Stuart original) (13:43)
My Dearest Dear (29:44)
No Ash Will Burn (Walt Aldridge original) (44:30)
Winderslide (52:43)
BONUS TRACK: Western Country
Junior Appalachian Musicians
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59min
October 01, 2025Episode 475: Wila Frank (Old Time Music Grounding)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Wila Frank! We recorded this on Monday at her home in Nashville.
Tunes in this episode:
Hop High Ladies (1:01)
Glory in the Meetinghouse (10:03)
Taxidermy Man (Wila Frank original) (22:16)
Seneca Square Dance (34:48)
Lady Hamilton (43:31)
BONUS TRACK: I Ain’t Got Nobody
Visit Paper Wings’ website
Visit Wila Frank’s website
Come see Tall Poppy String Band in Myrtle Beach
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50min
September 24, 2025Episode 474: Anna RG (Old Time Ballads, Community, and Disability in Traditional Music)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Anna RG! We recorded this on Monday over Discord, which we’ll get into more in the interview.
Tunes in this episode:
The Willow Tree (0:34)
Rock Andy (34:40)
Red Rocking Chair (57:46)
The Death of Harry Simms (Aunt Molly Jackson original) (1:24:49)
Won’t You Come and Sing for Me (Hazel Dickens original) (1:59:48)
BONUS TRACK: Lungwort (Anna RG original)
Sick center website
Follow Covid Action Map on Instagram
Email Anna RG if you’re an old time musician with long covid: [email protected]
Come see Tall Poppy String Band in Myrtle Beach
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2h 5min
September 17, 2025Episode 473: Greta Hazilla (Scottish and Irish Fiddle)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Greta Hazilla! We recorded this on Sunday at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
The Tattie Ball/Hull’s Reel (0:29)
Star of Munster/Siobhan O’Donnell’s/Boys of Malin (8:02)
Whiteface (Joe Thrift original) (20:36)
The Sailor's Wife/Julia Delaney's (25:29)
Lady Mary Ramsey Strathspey (32:14)
BONUS TRACK: Virginia Reel
Visit Triple File’s website
Come see Tall Poppy String Band in Myrtle Beach
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35min
September 10, 2025Episode 472: Call Up in the Cool No. 7
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are you all, because it’s another Call Up in the Cool episode; figured we were due for one. These are always super fun, and it’s always a bit like pulling teeth to get people to send in questions and requests, so, here’s my ask: if you think of a question and a tune request while listening to this episode, record a voice memo or just send an email right now to [email protected], and I’ll play it or read it on air for the next one!
Tunes in this episode:
Clyde Davenport’s Sally Ann (1:12)
John Hatcher’s Grub Springs (21:30)
Green Valley Waltz (35:06)
Waverly (47:09)
Glory in the Meetinghouse (52:52)
BONUS TRACK: Omie Wise
Solo Clawhammer Tunes from Source Recordings online workshop series
Come see Morgan Harris and I open for Never Come Down in Hood River Sep 12
Sign up for the Queer and Trans Old Time Music Gathering!
Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon
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57min
September 03, 2025Episode 471: Morgan Harris (Old Time Fiddle)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Morgan Harris! We recorded this on Monday at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Jon Bekoff’s Lone Prairie (1:11)
Hawk’s Got a Chicken (15:42)
Sal Will You Marry Me (35:12)
Darley Fulks’ Billy Lost in the Lowlands (48:27)
Cookhouse Joe (53:51)
BONUS TRACK: Speed the Plow
Buy Morgan Harris’ album Alone Will Tell
Visit her website
Follow her on Instagram
Come see Morgan Harris and I open for Never Come Down in Hood River Sep 12
Sign up for the Queer and Trans Old Time Music Gathering!
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!
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59min
August 27, 2025Episode 470: Joe Moore (Stringband Class with the Canotes and Learning Instruments on a Whim)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Joe Moore! We recorded this on Monday at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Nancy Dalton (1:56)
Hunting the Buffalo (17:28)
Cora Dye (33:45)
Rose in the Morning (55:42)
Ragged Coat (1:03:08)
BONUS TRACK: Charleston Gals
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1h 7min
August 20, 2025Episode 469: Ben Nelson (Live at Earful of Fiddle, feat. Becky Hill)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Ben Nelson, with special guest Becky Hill! We recorded this back in June in front of a live audience of campers at Earful of Fiddle in Rodney, MI.
Watch the videos of the dancing moments of this episode!
Tunes in this episode:
Camp Chase (0:43)
Natural Bridge Blues (15:49)
Sally Sifting Sand (29:19)
Sugar Babe (41:32)
Sandy River Belle (46:14)
BONUS TRACK: Rocking in the Weary Land
Sign up for Becky Hill’s Step a Tune Dance Weekend
Learn more about Rockbridge Festival
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51min
August 13, 2025Episode 468: Humbletown (Morgan Carnes, Dylan Lewis, and James Schrag)
Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are the members of Humbletown: Morgan Carnes, Dylan Lewis, and James Schrag! I recorded them yesterday at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
Five Miles From Town (0:25)
Last Chance / Missouri River Weave (Morgan Carnes original) (9:57)
Little Pine Siskin (John Reischman original) (26:10)
River Dreams (Morgan Carnes original) (39:02)
Going Down to Greenleaf (Morgan Carnes original) (50:10)
BONUS TRACK: Benton’s Dream
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Follow them on Instagram
and Facebook
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55min

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