Episode 49: Palmer and Greg Loux (Old Time Power Couple/Run of the Mill String Band)

07/05/17 • 70 min

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/

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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/

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Episode 48: Scotty Leach (Keeps Coming Back to Old Time)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Scotty Leach! Scotty was one of the first names on my list when I started asking people to be on my show, because he was basically the first friend I made at my first Clifftop. That was almost 4 years ago, and I think playing with Scotty that week was yet another point of no return for me and my relationship with Old Time music. Scotty’s fiddling... the best way I can think to describe it is “flippantly brilliant.” Case in point: he won first prize in the Morehead fiddling contest last year playing a tune he learned in a jam right before he went on stage. But more than just his fiddling, I really like him. I would go visit Scotty even if he wasn’t an old time musician, which is like the main reason I visit people any more. It was really neat to hear Scotty’s story. Somehow, a lot of the details were new to me, so once again, I’m glad for the pretense of this show to get to know my friends better.

Tunes we play:
Julianne Johnson
Mose Coffman’s Lost Indian
Katydid
Don Messer’s Breakdown
L&N Rag
Altamont
Bonus Track: Bill Brown

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Episode 50: Spencer & Rains (Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas Fiddle Tunes)

Welcome to episode 50 of Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. That’s right! 50 episodes! Technically 53, but 3 of those are rebroadcasts or best of episodes, so they don’t count. And who better to feature on Get Up in the Cool’s 50th episode than Tricia Spencer and Howard Rains, experts in the field of traditional Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas fiddle tunes, fantastic visual artists, and, perhaps, Old Time’s cutest couple.

Tunes we’ll play:
Judge Parker Take These Shackles Off Of Me
Big Springs
Miller Boy
Kash Kersey
Cotton Eyed Joe
Get Up in the Cool
Bonus Track: Ladies’ Fancy

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