Episode 271: Brandi Waller-Pace, Nelson Williams, and Jake Blount (Old Time Bass, FWAAMfest, and Post-Quarantine Touring)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Brandi Waller-Pace, Nelson Williams, and Jake Blount. We recorded this in September at IBMA in Raleigh, North Carolina. Tunes and songs in this episode: Big Sciota (0:37) Running in the Whist Oaks (11:20) Will Adams’ Wild Horses at Stony Point (20:11) Sittin’ On Top of the World (31:23) Piney Woods Gal (38:49) Bonus track: Sally Gooden Follow Nelson Williams on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bassic_nelson/ and hire him! nelson.williams.bass@gmail.com Visit Jake Blount’s website: https://jakeblount.com/ Buy Spider Tales! https://freedirt.net/collections/jake-blount Visit (and sponsor!) the Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival website: https://www.fwaamusicfest.com/ Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fwaamfest/ and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fwaamusicfest/ Visit (and donate to!) Decolonizing the Music Room’s website: https://decolonizingthemusicroom.com/ Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/decolonizingthemusicroom/ and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/decolonizemusic Visit Brandi Waller-Pace’s website: https://brandipacemusic.com/ Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandipacemusic/ and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandipacemusic 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.