Episode 440: Richard Melling & Karen McCracken (Old Time Duet Singing)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends. This week’s friends are Richard Melling & Karen McCracken! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR.
Tunes in this episode:
* My Texas Girl (0:35)
* Pretty Little Pink (11:07)
* Black Robe (25:47)
* Moses on the Mountain (Richard Melling original) (44:46)
* Beautiful (53:08)
* Bonus Track: Light in Your Eyes (Richard Melling original)
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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.

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