Episode 61: Chirps Smith (Midwestern Fiddler)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Chirps Smith! And I’m really excited to be able to say that. We recorded this over Labor Day weekend in Chicago at the Midwest Sing and Stomp; so special thanks again to Dan McDonald, AKA Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Old Lazarus’ Harp folk collective for hiring and hosting us! Tunes we’ll play: Turkey in the Straw Stump-Tailed Dog Hooker’s Hornpipe The Old Red Barn Cora Dye Hobb Dye John Dye Bonus Track: The Maid Behind the Bar Chirps Smith’s Down in Little Egypt: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/lynnsmith  The New Bad Habits: https://store.cdbaby.com/Artist/NewBadHabits  The Indian Creek Delta Boys on FRC: https://fieldrecorder.bandcamp.com/album/frc-607-the-indian-creek-delta-boys-recordings-from-the-collection-of-ray-alden  Midwestern Harvest on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Midwestern-Harvest-Lynn-Chirps-Smith/dp/B00TVXCQ9K Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool  RSVP to my show with Jake in Philly: https://www.facebook.com/events/800406640141933/?ti=icl  Check out my new show, Think Outside the Box Set: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/think-outside-the-box-set/id1289356182?mt=2&i=1000392792214Support 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.