Episode 193: Jerry Gallaher (Banjo Playing is Smoke and Mirrors)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Jerry Gallaher. We recorded this in February in Jerry’s home in Seattle. Tunes in this episode: The Rooster Tone Blues Cider Mill Half-Shaved Mississippi Sawyer New River Train Bonus track: I’m Not Worried Download Piney Woods, Jerry’s album with Forest Carroll: https://www.amazon.com/Piney-Woods-Forrest-Carroll/dp/B06XWXKDJ4 Download The Hurricane Ridge Runners’ FRC album: https://fieldrecorder.bandcamp.com/album/frc-604-the-hurricane-ridgerunners-old-time-string-band-of-seattle-from-the-collections-of-jerry-gallaher-paul-kotapish-brendan-doyle-and-ray-alden Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Get a Get Up in the Cool t shirt and phone case! https://teespring.com/new-get-up-in-the-cool-swag Sign up at https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/ for my clawhammer instructional series! Check out Cameron’s other podcast, Think Outside the Box Set: https://boxset.fireside.fm/Support Get Up in the Cool

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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.