Episode 432: Brandon Godman (Buying Violins for a Living, Groovy Fiddling, and Writing Original Tunes)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Brandon Godman! We recorded this in November at Brandon’s San Francisco shop, The Fiddle Mercantile. Tunes in this episode: Ragtime Annie (0:58) Dance Around Molly (15:55) Sally Goodin (33:09) Godman’s Bottoms (Brandon Godman original) (58:50) I Heard the Morgan Bell (Brandon Godman original) (1:06:22) Hell Broke Loose in Georgia (1:08:28) Bonus Track: Great Buck in the Night Sky (Brandon Godman original) Visit The Fiddle Mercantile website Visit The Violin Shop website Sign up for Cameron’s Ear Training for Old Time workshop series Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas 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.