Episode 351: Six Dollar String Band (Traditional Trance Music)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are the members of Six Dollar String Band: Tony Holmquist, Brendan Shafer, Stephen Sellers, and Robin Davis. We recorded this last month at the Durango Bluegrass Meltdown in Colorado. Tune in this episode: Cumberland Gap (0:34) Speed the Plow (13:34) Big Eyed Rabbit (34:20) Down by the Riverside (45:38) Jimmy in the Swamp (55:18) Bonus track: Breakin’ Up Christmas Visit Six Dollar String Band’s website Follow them on Instagram Buy their albums on Bandcamp Stream Calico and their other albums on Spotify Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon Buy Get Up in the Cool merch like t-shirts, phone cases, and masks! Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron Check out Cameron’s other podcast, Think Outside the Box Set Check out Cameron’s old time trio Tall Poppy String Band 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.