Episode 257: Em Hammond (Old Time Banjo, Bass, and Flatfooting)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Em Hammond (with special guest musician Rachel Eddy!). We recorded this in their home in the DC area a few weeks ago. Tunes and songs in this episode: Kansas City Reel (1:37) Newt Payne’s Tune (13:18) If I Needed You (34:28) My Bucket’s Got A Hole In It (46:50) Billy in the Lowground (55:22) Bonus track: Grey Eagle Buy the Old Time Sweethearts albums! http://dittyville.com/store/new-old-time-sweethearts-2-cd-bundle-pre-order/ Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool Buy Get Up in the Cool merch like t-shirts, phone cases, and masks! 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/ Subscribe to the Basic Folk podcast! https://cindyhowes.net/basicfolk/ 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.