Episode 459: Ben Traverse (Folk Songs, Lomax, and Music from Michigan)

from Get Up in the Cool · host Cameron DeWhitt

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Ben Traverse! I recorded them in May at the Wheatland Traditional Arts Weekend in Remus, Michigan. Tunes in this episode: Raging Canal (Sent My Brown Jug Downtown) (0:50) Lost on the Lady Elgin (10:08) Who Feeds Us Beans (23:43) Beaver Dam Road (40:55) Shenandoah (47:09) BONUS TRACK: Birch Grove Visit Ben Traverse’s Website Follow Ben Traverse on Instagram Buy Ben’s albums from Earthwork Music Buy tickets to see Tall Poppy String Band and Never Come Down at Mississippi Studios Sign up for the final Earful of Fiddle! 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

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