Episode 263: River Scheuerell (Playing Banjo on Other Instruments and the Olympia Old Time Community)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is River Scheuerell. We recorded this a few weeks ago at the Centralia Campout in Centralia, Washington. Tunes and songs in this episode: James Roberts’ Tune (0:39) Lost Girl (20:10) Highlander’s Farewell (29:48) Karen Collins’ Tune (39:39) Billy in the Lowground (46:15) Bonus track: Bound to Have a Little Fun River’s website: https://www.riverscheuerell.com/ Buy River and Sage’s album on Bandcamp: https://riverandsagescheuerell.bandcamp.com/album/maple-grove Follow him River on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/river_scheuerell/ 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.