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

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

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