Episode 299: Kelsey Nelsen (Square Dance Calling, Crankies, and Ballads)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Kelsey Nelsen. We recorded this a couple weeks ago in her home outside of Port Townsend, Washington when she hosted Tall Poppy String Band during our tour. Squares, Tunes, and songs in this episode: Dip and Dive (to Chattanooga) (0:34) Uptown Downtown (to Salt River) (19:20) Undone in Sorrow (31:41) Who Killed Cock Robin (42:39) Ouvre La Porte (54:10) Bonus track: Three Little Babes Visit Kelsey Nelsen’s website: https://kelseynelsen.com/ Donate to the Jefferson County Anti-Racist Fund: https://www.jcarf.org/ 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/ Check out Cameron’s old time trio Tall Poppy String Band: https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/ 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.