Get Up in the Cool
A podcast by Cameron DeWhitt - Wednesdays
462 Episodes
-  Episode 453: Brian Dolphin (Writing Original Tunes)Published: 30/04/2025
-  Episode 452: Shanice Richards (Jamaican Church, The Little Mercies, and Old Time with Somethin’ Sassy)Published: 23/04/2025
-  Episode 451: Morgan Harris (April Duo Bill Tour with Cameron DeWhitt)Published: 16/04/2025
-  Episode 450: Creekbed Carter Hogan (Labor Songs)Published: 09/04/2025
-  Episode 449: Joy Adams and Hazel Royer (The Low End of Big Richard)Published: 02/04/2025
-  Episode 448: Eva Leach (Musician Identity Outside of Performance)Published: 26/03/2025
-  Episode 447: Ellie Hakanson (Proto-Feminist Bluegrass Songs, John Hartford, and Hazel Dickens)Published: 19/03/2025
-  Episode 446: Carolyn Kendrick (Tradition, Reactionary Politics, and the Satanic Panic)Published: 12/03/2025
-  Episode 445: Kat Wallace (Old Time Fiddling and Writing Songs)Published: 05/03/2025
-  Episode 444: Natterjack (Contra Dance Music and Compulsory Non-Binary Identity)Published: 26/02/2025
-  Episode 443: T-Claw (Square Dance Calling)Published: 19/02/2025
-  Episode 442: Heather Blackbird (Unaccompanied Ballad Singing)Published: 12/02/2025
-  Episode 441: Whiskey Deaf (Annie Staninec and John Kael)Published: 05/02/2025
-  Episode 440: Richard Melling & Karen McCracken (Old Time Duet Singing)Published: 29/01/2025
-  Episode 439: Benny Bleu and Titus Stevens (Old Time in Upstate New York)Published: 22/01/2025
-  Episode 438: Dan Leif (Old Time Music in Portland, Oregon)Published: 15/01/2025
-  Episode 437: Call Up in the Cool No. 6Published: 08/01/2025
-  Episode 436: Joe Pomianek (Old Time Flatpicking Guitar and Mandolin)Published: 01/01/2025
-  Episode 435: Countercurrent (Original Tunes and Writing Anti-Capitalist Folk Music)Published: 25/12/2024
-  Episode 434: A Very Church for Dogs Christmas (with Kate Gregory and Jonathan Craig Roberts)Published: 18/12/2024
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 interviewer, Cameron balances an effusive curiosity for the potential of traditional music with a dogged respect for its origins. Serving as audience surrogate, Cameron asks illuminating questions to Old Time's best and brightest while telling the larger story of the tradition's modern era.
