Episode 258: Bach Bui and Alex Kramer (G Tunes in F, Treyf Old Time, and Armchair Epidemiology)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Bach Bui and Alex Kramer. We recorded this at the Harry Smith Frolic in Greenfield, Massachusetts a few weeks ago. Tunes and songs in this episode: Blue Goose (in F) (1:36) Old Yeller Dog Went Trotting Through the Meetinghouse (in F) (15:06) Ghost Woman Blues (33:53) High Up on Tug (in F) (46:54) Marion Reece’s Cumberland Gap (in F) (57:02) Bonus track: Marcus Martin’s Boatsman (in F) Buy Christmas a la Mode: https://whistleandscat.bandcamp.com/releases Buy 5 Mile Stringband’s album: https://5milestringband.bandcamp.com/ Contact Alex at his website to hire him for your square dance: http://alexkramerbanjo.com/ See McKain Lakey and Cameron DeWhitt perform in Portland: https://www.facebook.com/events/810708219585098 And Olympia (with Alex Sturbaum): https://www.facebook.com/events/618531206201881/ 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/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.