Episode 281: Dwight Hawkins (Street Performing, Playing the Saw, and Black Stringband and Blues Music)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Dwight Hawkins. We recorded this last week at his home in Portland, Oregon. Tunes and songs in this episode: You Just As Well Let Her Go (0:43) Pal Of Mine (16:55) Chasing Rainbows (26:36) My Gal Sal (37:07) Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor (49:03) Bonus track: Crow Jane Contact Dwight Hawkins for booking! Phone: (504) 442-9520 email: negroartist@gmail.com Cash app: $sea4d 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://get-up-in-the-cool-swag.creator-spring.com/ 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.