Episode 43: Spencer Family and Friends (Living Links to the Source)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This episode features a lot of my new friends! Thornton, Emily and Kilby Spencer, Kelly Brieding and Debbie Bramer. Kilby Spencer reached out to me a while back with some recommendations for guests, so I crashed at his and Kelly’s place in Crumpler, North Carolina, and he lined up some amazing guests for me, including Shohei Tsutsumi, whose episode aired last week.    Before my trip, I hadn’t heard a lot of this style of fiddling and banjo playing, so I was pretty blown away when we got started. I’m used to playing this nonspecific, northern, festival-style, so let’s just say I expended a lot effort trying to keep up with these folks. Unfortunately, because there were six of us playing in a living room, this episode was a little more difficult to mix than the average one-on-one session. You only really notice it on a couple songs were the vocals get a bit lost. I hope the energy of the jam makes up for it Tunes we’ll play: Sugar hill Johnson boys Lost Indian Eighth of January Stagger Lee John Brown’s Dream Spencer Family and Friends’ bands: http://whitetopmountainband.com/  https://crookedroadramblers.com/  https://www.facebook.com/crookedroadramblers/  http://kelleyandthecowboys.com/  https://www.facebook.com/Kelley-and-the-Cowboys-349823465031/  Field Recorders’ Collective:  http://fieldrecorder.org/  https://fieldrecorder.bandcamp.com/  Buy Get Up in the Cool vol. 1: https://camerondewhitt.bandcamp.com/  Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool