Episode 420: Mark Olitsky (Changing as a Musician)

Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Mark Olitsky. We recorded this last month at the Minnesota Bluegrass August Festival. Thanks for having us! Tunes in this episode: * John Brown’s Dream (1:05) * Georgia Railroad (19:52) * Elk River Blues (38:46) * Darling Nellie Gray (59:20) * Possum On a Rail (1:16:49) * Bonus Track: Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom Mark Olitsky’s albums with Cary Moskovitz (https://olitskymoskovitz.bandcamp.com/) Sign up for Cameron’s new banjo workshop series Riffs, Fills, and Grooves: Adding Flavor to Your Clawhammer (https://www.camerondewhitt.com/store) Support Get Up in the Cool on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/getupinthecool) 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/)