From OTRAnnounce at overtherhine.com Fri Jan 21 13:33:02 2005 From: OTRAnnounce at overtherhine.com (OTRAnnounce at overtherhine.com) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:33:02 EST Subject: [OTR Announce] A few teasers... Message-ID: <110.41a41b7b.2f22a4de@aol.com> Hello everybody. If you lived here in Ohio, you'd be snowy by now. A few quick things: If you're in the area and feel like coming in out of the cold to hear some warm, upright piano music and some off-kilter yet hopeful poems and a few stories, Linford Detweiler will be performing a solo concert Saturday, February 22nd (tomorrow) in Livonia, Michigan, at the Trinity House Theater, with very special guest Jason Dennie. Check out: http://overtherhine.com/when/tourdates/index.html for more info. Drunkard's Prayer, the new full-length cd from Over the Rhine is due to be released on Virgin/Back Porch Records on Tuesday, March 29, 2005. Much more on that soon. (We thought the record was going to be called Born for awhile, but then it switched back to the original title.) Over the Rhine will be performing some warm-up shows in the Northeast prior to the release of Drunkard's Prayer : February 28 Annapolis, MD Ram's Head Tavern March 1 Arlington, VA Jammin' Java March 2 Philadelphia, PA Tin Angel (Two shows) March 4 Northampton, MS Iron Horse Music Hall March 5 Lancaster, PA The Chameleon March 6 NYC, NY Mercury Lounge We'll be in touch with more soon. In the meanwhile, stay cozy and thanks for listening. Over the Rhine -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From OTRAnnounce at overtherhine.com Fri Feb 11 15:15:03 2005 From: OTRAnnounce at overtherhine.com (OTRAnnounce at overtherhine.com) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:15:03 EST Subject: [OTR Announce] Goodbye Grey Ghost Message-ID: <147.3f4fccbb.2f3e6c47@aol.com> February 2005 Hello fellow travelers, Another overcast, chilly winter day here in Ohio. Hopefully all the clouds just mean that nature is stirring up some cosmic cookie dough in the sky. Hopefully the sun will come out before too long, and we'll have spring, fresh out of the oven. I love snow, but this time of year, all the trees start looking a little forlorn, a little impatient. This time of year is all about lookin' forward, I guess. *** Karin and I just got back from Barnesville, Ohio. We got a sad call from Lisa, Karin's best childhood friend, the matron of honor at our wedding. Lisa's son Brandon had been killed instantly in a car accident. He was a freshman at Kent State University. In many ways, Brandon was the kid that we all wanted to be. He was well loved by his peers, athletic, adventurous, a hard worker, funny, girls loved him, he made his family proud. And then he was gone. So we drove up for a few days to participate in some of the worst that life has to offer. It was good to stay with Lisa and her family - cry together, reminisce together, be quiet together, talk when talk was needed. It was heartening to see the support from the surrounding community. About 1400 people showed up at the viewing in the tiny town of Barnesville to pay their respects to the family - students, friends, Amish neighbors, co-workers? Now we all try to take some of the heartbreak home and live with it. We can't imagine, but we hope in small ways to bear each others burdens. We think about our faith. We believe, and we pray for help with our unbelief. Make sure the people you love know they are loved. *** Karin and I have sold our house to a young family and will be moving this Spring. Two young boys, Collin and Aidan, will explore this attic with its odd angles where I've tried to write. Chad, the father, will be poking around in the basement where we currently store all the oversized posters. Renee will be kneeling in the roses that Karin planted. Maybe they'll all sit like we used to under the grape vines. May they be blessed. Our friends helped us get our foot in the front door of this forbidding old Victorian and by some miracle, the songs that we wrote and often recorded right here enabled us to pay them back. When Karin and I got married, we still had separate apartments. But this is where we set up shop together. We lovingly called this big wooden house the Grey Ghost. We tried to be good to the house. It was good to us. This is the house where Karin taught herself to cook. This is the house where I sat at the table and said, Wow. I love that woman. And this is the house where quite often on New Year's Eve we'd gather some friends together for food, stories, poems, music. After midnight, my men friends and I (Oh, and Aralee would usually join us) would stomp up the stairs and gather 'round in the attic, and the top of the house would fill with aromatic cigar smoke. The cigar of choice was called the ?Hemingway Short Story.? We talked and smoked into the wee hours and sipped our Lagavulin. For those few hours, no matter what the New Year might bring, we were unstoppable. It was here at the Grey Ghost that we put together and released: Amateur Shortwave Radio Films For Radio The Cutting Room Floor OHIO Changes Come (Over the Rhine LIVE) Drunkard's Prayer And my three house-bound solo albums: I Don't Think There's No Need To Bring Nothin' Grey Ghost Stories Unspoken Requests It's been a good chapter. Make sure the people you love know they are loved. *** Where are we going, you ask? Ah, be careful of your dreams. After years of rambling about Imaginary Apple Orchards and philosopher farmers (Wendell Berry, Robert Frost, Rockwell Kent, The Wyeths et al), Karin and I bought a little 5-acre farm outside of Cincinnati, with an old pre-Civil War brick house, with crooked floors, with cracked windows, with melancholy mice. What have we done! But we can see the sky properly. We can build proper fires. We can plant new trees and watch them grow in the shadows of the old ones that are already there. We can grow our own food. Karin says, We're aging musicians, and we need to become more self-sufficient! I would like to have the Amish help me with a windmill to draw well water for the garden. One night a lop-sided pregnant moon came up behind the dilapidated barn and took our breath away. One night we heard the owls calling across the fields. We'll probably have to take the barn down and rebuild someday. We're going to be careful with those hand-hewn beams. What will this do to us and our music? We're not sure. Say a prayer. Make sure the people you love know they are loved. *** Our new record is coming out March 29th. It's called Drunkard's Prayer. It was recorded right here in the rooms of the Grey Ghost. I am proud of all of our records, flaws and all. Each represents a time in our lives, and we poured ourselves into each. But there's something about Drunkard's Prayer that is special - hard to put into words. Even after all these years, I think I can finally say I have a favorite. We'll be posting all the info soon. Soon, you can pre-order one if you wish. Karin and I will sit down here at the Grey Ghost one last time and sign the pre-ordered copies until our fingers ache. We'll play music, pour a glass of wine, talk deep into the night. Who knows what we'll find. We'll also let you know more soon about some of our upcoming trips. We're not going to be away for long periods of time this year, but we've got some warm-up shows coming up in the Northeast. We're playing some release concerts here in Cincinnati at the 20th Century Theater in Oakley, March 31st and April 1st, then a trio of shows in Dayton, and then we're heading for the West Coast later in April. We're happy to announce a very special guest: Kim Taylor will be opening for us this year, and sitting in with us some along the way. Stay tuned at overtherhine.com for more. We're looking forward to seeing you. Make sure the people you love know they are loved. Bye for now, Linford for Over the Rhine -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From OTRAnnounce at overtherhine.com Fri Feb 25 20:49:36 2005 From: OTRAnnounce at overtherhine.com (OTRAnnounce at overtherhine.com) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 20:49:36 EST Subject: [OTR Announce] Drunkard's Prayer Message-ID: <15a.4b2cdc5b.2f512fb0@aol.com> Hello from Ohio, There's a chicken hawk that has been shadowing the neighborhood of Norwood these last few weeks. The pigeons have never been so nervous. The hawk doesn't really fly. It hurtles in perfect silence from some high vantage point, slices the air outside of our kitchen windows, rounds the corner of the house and is gone. Its ways are above the ways of the neighborhood birds. It came from some outside place with more air and space. It feels foreign here. Overqualified. Its beauty is too wild. As we prepare to leave this neighborhood, I can't help but see this bird as some sort of sign. It feels like it was sent to fetch us, to kill some illusion, to open our eyes. It seems like it was sent to let us know that it's okay to go. We're leaving the city. The farm beckons. More air and space. We'll have to wait and see what happens. We'll keep you posted. *** But for now, this! You can now pre-order your very own copy (or copies) of Over the Rhine's new cd, DRUNKARD'S PRAYER. Why should I order in advance you ask? 1) Karin and I will sign by hand all the cd's that are pre-ordered. This strange little ritual takes a day or two. You can participate in a sort of benevolent torture. Fun! 2) You'll receive a small surprise from the band with your signed cd, if you order in advance. (Karin suggests authentic Norwood pigeon feathers.) 3) When you are kind enough to pre-order through the band's website, most of the money actually goes directly to Over the Rhine, which helps with touring costs, food for Willow, Elroy and the cats while we're away, and get this, farm fencing! 4) Avoid the disappointment of going to a record store on March 29th only to discover the cd is sold out, or hasn't yet arrived. (Unless something unforeseen goes severely haywire (or you live in a distant foreign land) you'll have your signed copy the day DRUNKARD'S PRAYER is released. We have a plan.) Every time we release a new project, we can't help but thank our growing community of listeners for giving us the opportunity to continue to write and record songs for a living. You all continue to surprise and inspire us with your encouragement and support. We don't hesitate to view all of this as mildly miraculous. Thank you again. As Karin likes to say, Without you, we're homeless. DRUNKARD'S PRAYER feels like the most personal record we've ever made. An interviewer recently asked me what I hope people get from this record. I said that whenever I encounter a work of art that moves me in a significant way, I always walk away wanting to be a better human being. I feel it all over my skin. This chemical reaction is a mystery. I don't begin to understand it. But I said I hope this is what happens when people hear this music. I hope people breathe more deeply and find ways to be more courageous, more open, more generous, more fearless, more loving. May it be so. Details, particulars, and old rabbit trails at overtherhine.com? *** We'll be debuting barebones versions of many of the new songs in the Northeast next week. We're very happy that our former Grey Ghost housemate Kim Taylor is opening the shows and then sitting in with Karin and I. We've been rehearsing in the living room right here where we recorded DRUNKARD'S PRAYER. We crack each other up quite a bit. Hope you can join us. Monday, February 28, Annapolis, Maryland RAM'S HEAD Tuesday, March 1, Vienna, Virginia JAMMIN' JAVA Wednesday, March 2, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania TIN ANGEL (Two shows) Friday, March 4, Northampton, Massachusetts IRON HORSE MUSIC HALL Saturday, March 5, Lancaster, Pennsylvania THE CHAMELEON CLUB Sunday, March 6, NYC, NY MERCURY LOUNGE Tuesday, March 29, DRUNKARD'S PRAYER USA RELEASE DATE! HOMETOWN DRUNKARD'S PRAYER RELEASE CONCERTS: Thursday, March 31, Cincinnati, Ohio TWENTIETH CENTURY THEATER Friday, April 1, Cincinnati, Ohio TWENTIETH CENTURY THEATER Tickets for the Cincinnati shows are now available. Europeans and Brits: come on over. Canadians: come on down. Cheap flights abound. We're also looking forward to a long weekend at one of our favorite venues, Canal Street Tavern in Dayton, Ohio, as well as a long overdue trip to the West Coast in April. Check out overtherhine.com for more. Karin's got dinner on and the pasta is smelling good on a Friday night right here at home. The dogs are sprawled out. There's a smattering of snow outside, and it's cold, but it's warm inside. What can I say. Be well, Linford for Over the Rhine PS Speaking of the West Coast, we've got shows booked in Seattle, Portland, Eugene, San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles. We're still looking for shows on April 24-26 between Eugene and San Francisco. If you'd like to recommend a venue or music-friendly coffee house, or if you know of someone en route who is a successful house concert host, we're open to suggestions. Please e-mail Dave Palmer: davepalmerinc at yahoo.com? Thanks! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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