Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Palmer and Greg Loux from Run of the Mill String Band! I got to know them at my first clifftop back in 2014, when I gave their son’s friend a ride and ended up camping with them. I remember sitting in on a jam with them and not being able to keep up. Palmer has a taste for notey melodies with less internal repetition than your typical old time tune. Basically kryptonite for a banjo player like me who likes to match a fiddler note for note. Fortunately, she gave me the tunes in advance; so I had quite the homework session preparing for this interview. And I still play a lot of these tunes, especially this first one: Flowers of Edinburgh, which is beautiful and very interesting, and in the process of learning it, I think I became a better banjo player and old time musician in general. 

Make sure and stick around after the interview to find out where Palmer and Greg are playing next and how to order all their CDs and download all their music. Also, details on how to support Get Up in the Cool and get access to exclusive, members-only content like this week’s bonus track, Blue River, which is one of the best bonus tracks yet featured on the show. You gotta hear it. 

Let’s get started! Here’s my interview and jam with Palmer and Greg Loux; enjoy!

Tunes we play:

Flowers of Edinburgh 

Sail Away Ladies

Wagoner Hornpipe

Horseshoe Bend

Hell Up Coal Holler

Eye of the Beholder

Bonus Track: Blue River

Run of the Mill String Band: https://www.runotmill.com/ 

Snow Hill Strings: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/snowhillstrings 

The Hootenanny: http://www.camphillkimberton.org/hootenanny/