Episode 474: Anna RG (Old Time Ballads, Community, and Disability in Traditional Music)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friend is Anna RG! We recorded this on Monday over Discord, which we’ll get into more in the interview. Tunes in this episode: * The Willow Tree (0:34) * Rock Andy (34:40) * Red Rocking Chair (57:46) * The Death of Harry Simms (Aunt Molly Jackson original) (1:24:49) * Won’t You Come and Sing for Me (Hazel Dickens original) (1:59:48) * BONUS TRACK: Lungwort (Anna RG original) Sick center website (https://sickcenter.net/) Follow Covid Action Map on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/covidactionmap/?hl=en) Email Anna RG if you’re an old time musician with long covid: [email protected] Come see Tall Poppy String Band in Myrtle Beach (https://www.southbysoutheast.org/) Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool) Send Tax Deductible Donations to Get Up in the Cool through Fracture Atlas (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/get-up-in-the-cool) Sign up at Pitchfork Banjo for my clawhammer instructional series! (https://www.pitchforkbanjo.com/) Schedule a banjo lesson with Cameron (https://www.camerondewhitt.com/banjolessons) Visit Tall Poppy String Band’s website (https://www.tallpoppystringband.com/) and follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tallpoppystringband/)