Episode 286: Alex Sturbaum (The Vashon Sessions, Old Time Accordion, Lift vs. Groove, and Wholesome Chanteys)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Alex Sturbaum. We recorded this last week when they visited me at my home in Portland, Oregon. Tunes and songs in this episode: Rocky Road to Dublin (0:49) Dorrigo (20:00) Eklunda Polska #1 and #3 (25:31) Cumberland Gap (35:24) Captains and Ships (47:52) New Harbor (from Don Stratton) (1:01:37) Bonus track: Isham Monday’s Fire on the Mountain Download The Vashon Sessions: Volume IV: https://www.thevashonsessions.com/albums.html Pay rent at: https://www.realrentduwamish.org/ Visit Alex Sturbaum’s website and download their albums: https://www.alexsturbaum.com/ Visit Raise the Rafters’ website: https://rtrsong.org/ Visit Countercurrent’s website: https://countercurrentmusic.com/ Pre-order Tall Poppy String Band’s debut album on Kickstarter! http://kck.st/3ofpVpw Follow them on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tallpoppystringband/ and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tallpoppystringband 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.