Summary: <p>Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Mark Simos, fiddler and professor at Berklee College of Music. I visited him in his home back in February when I took my Boston trip. I didn’t know Mark at all prior to our session, but both Mark Kilianski and Adam Hurt recommended him, so my expectations were high. And I wasn’t disappointed! Mark’s a fantastic fiddler and he has a lot of ideas about what music is and why it’s important; traditional music especially. So, basically the perfect Get Up in the Cool guest. It was nice to not feel like I was being self-indulgent when I wanted to wax philosophical about fiddle tunes, he was right there with me. But, don’t get the wrong idea, this is by no means an overly talky episode. Mark curated a great jam of great versions of great tunes, with an emphasis on effective, intentional simplicity. I’m really excited for you to hear it!</p> <p>Tunes we’ll play:<br> Old Aunt Jenny With Her Nightcap On<br> Old Billy Hell<br> Poor Little Johnny’s Gone to the War<br> Duck River<br> Shaking Down the Acorns<br> aking Down the ShAcorns<br> Bonus Track: Run All Night</p> <p>Mark's CDs:<br> <a href="https://store.cdbaby.com/Artist/MarkSimos" rel="nofollow">https://store.cdbaby.com/Artist/MarkSimos</a><br> <a href="http://www.5-string.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.5-string.com/</a></p> <p>Mark's songwriting book, Songwriting Strategies: A 360º Approach<br> (Berklee Press/Hal Leonard 2014)<br> <a href="http://www.songwritingstrategies.com" rel="nofollow">www.songwritingstrategies.com</a><br> <a href="http://www.360songwriting.com" rel="nofollow">www.360songwriting.com</a> - community site (w/book audio files)<br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/songwritingstrategies/" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/songwritingstrategies/</a></p> <p>Mark's blog: <br> <a href="http://songwriterscompass.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">http://songwriterscompass.wordpress.com/</a></p> <p>Mark’s artist/songwriter site<br> <a href="http://www.devachan.com" rel="nofollow">www.devachan.com</a></p> <p>The Singer Songwriter Handbook, which features Mark's chapter, "The Performing Songwriter's Dilemma":<br> <a href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-singer-songwriter-handbook-9781628920291/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-singer-songwriter-handbook-9781628920291/</a></p> <p>Miles of Music camp:<br> <a href="http://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/%C2%A0" rel="nofollow">http://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/ </a></p> <p>Berklee’s Summer Songwriting Workshop (June 26 - 30):<br> <a href="https://www.berklee.edu/summer/programs/songwriting" rel="nofollow">https://www.berklee.edu/summer/programs/songwriting</a></p> <p>California Coast Music Camp July 9 - 15:<br> <a href="https://www.musiccamp.org/2017" rel="nofollow">https://www.musiccamp.org/2017</a></p> <p>Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon:<br> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool</a></p> <p>That Radiolab episode I mentioned:<br> <a href="http://www.radiolab.org/story/debatable/" rel="nofollow">http://www.radiolab.org/story/debatable/</a></p>
