Episode 383: Countercurrent (Alex Sturbaum and Brian Lindsay)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Alex Sturbaum and Brian Lindsay of Countercurrent. We recorded this a couple weeks ago at my home in Portland, OR. Tune in this episode: Cats in the Henhouse / Free Little Bird / Fair Wind (0:31) Whiteface (14:06) The Margaret Keene (from Mile 12) (28:10) Little Pine Siskin (41:51) Her Bright Smile / Skating on the Harbourfront (46:59) Fiddler’s Prerogative (57:00) Bonus Track: Benton’s Dream Buy Countercurrent’s new album Not So But Far Otherwise on Bandcamp Follow them on Instagram and Facebook Visit their website Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website and follow us on Instagram 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.