From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Mon Jul 2 12:51:18 2007 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:51:18 EDT Subject: [OTR Announce] Over the Rhine Update: The Trumpet Child is Coming Soon... Message-ID: July 2, 2007 Hello from Nowhere Farm, It's a cool, bright summer morning, a delicious breeze is bending the locust trees, three hummingbirds are hovering around Karin's feeder here on the back porch, Elroy is stretched out at my feet, Shakey, our Weimarnaer, is off exploring. The chipping sparrows have another nest with three grouchy baby birds in the little potted pine on our porch, just a foot or so to the right of the porch swing. My father said that on the Amish farm of his childhood, the chipping sparrows would line their perfectly round little nests with horsetail hair. We don't have horses (in spite of the fact that various locals have offered to give us their gentle old mares, donkeys etc) so when we see the chipping sparrows building their nests, I give Elroy a good brushing and leave the fur in the yard. Sure enough, their nests are always lined with his black and white hair, the baby sparrows nestled in a black and white Great Dane quilt. We save the Elroy-lined nests for our Christmas tree. And we've had goldfinches this summer - sometimes 6 or 8 at a time in flight together, extravagant in the sun. And the bobwhite quail always come in close to nest in the golden rod and the blackberries. We leave plenty of wild patches for them. We hear them calling back and forth much of the time. Shakey has turned into a world-class frisbee dog. We whip the frisbee as far as we can through the maples and Shakey does his Derek Jeter routine and somehow always makes us look good, as he rarely fails to make the catch running at full Weimaraner tilt. (He usually manages to grab about three feet of air for effect.) Then he circles back with doleful eyes, ears flapping with satisfaction, drops the frisbee at our feet and sits and points with his front, right, bird dog paw up, waiting for the next throw. The moon has been full, and a few nights ago I took a midnight bike ride along the back roads, through the moonlight drenched fields, the moon tagging along over my shoulder, my lungs full of night air. That has to be the holiest light on earth. The coyotes have been howling down in the creek the last few nights, restless with the sacredness of it all. Saturday night, we were driving out of Chicago, and that big moon was asserting itself over the skyline, ducking behind the John Hancock building, following us home, an excessive, glowing, communion wafer. We are so grateful that we can work from city to city and then return home to the farm to these expanses of quiet, wake up with our coffee and each other, a little breakfast, the everywhere bird song, the breeze, the trees, the sky. And very little else? And at the end of the day, as you may well know, when it comes to Nowhere Farm, we grow songs. The Trumpet Child is Coming Soon. Driving home recently, we were talking about balance. How we want to increasingly live in the moment. No past. No future. Only now. How we want to be thankful for all we've been given and nurture a warm intererior Yes. We are able to support ourselves with our music, we are able to make the records that we choose to make, we are blessed with opportunities to take our music around the world and pass it around, we are surrounded by many good, supportive people. We never want to take any of it for granted. And yet on the other hand, we want to remain hungry. We want to be open to going deeper. We don't want to settle. We want to do the work that is required of us, work that will allow us to step more fully into our shoes as songwriters. We want to grow. I was talking to a friend a few days ago, a music manager who's been around the block, who's observed Over the Rhine for many years since the very early days of the band. He said, Linford, Nobody gets bigger 18 years into their career. This is crazy. Look what's happening with Over the Rhine! We had a good laugh and traded a few stories. But the good news is, Karin and I do believe we're still growing as writers. We do feel like our story is still unfolding. We do feel like we're caught up in something. And if we quit believing that, we'll come back to the farm and put the guitars in their cases and get on with the rest of our lives. We don't want to waste anybody's time. In the meanwhile, we're up for what's next. It's all happening. So, we dressed up a new website for this brand new Trumpet Child chapter. (Thanks to Rob Seiffert for his help with this.) Check out OvertheRhine.com for all the latest. We've started a brand new record label, Great Speckled Dog, and lined our nest with Elroy's fur. We've got a great team together: Thanks to our Chicago-based manager, Glen Phillips, for helping us get this record out the door. Thanks to our NYC-based publicists, Diana and Abby at Shore Fire. Thanks to Mark and everyone at Skyline, who are putting the finishing touches on our tour this Fall. Thanks to everyone at Music Allies - they'll be working to get these songs spread around here and there, anywhere adventurous American music is still being played. Thanks to our Cincinnati-based road crew: Brandon Dawson, our tour manager who's also running our Cincinnati offices, and Dave Foreman, our front-of-house engineer. Thanks to Eric and Drew and Michael and Owen as well for years of help. Thanks to Jake and Mickey for the present day holy ruckus. And thanks to our producer, Brad Jones, and all the musicians who helped us deliver The Trumpet Child. Life is good. Join us at OvertheRhine.com this coming Sunday evening. At 8pm Eastern, we're going to give The Trumpet Child its first spin from beginning to end, its very own LIVE, world premier webcast. Never done this before. It's a listening party, and you're invited. Karin and I will slip into The Orchard chatroom afterwards and field any questions, tip our hats to all of you, our extended musical family. You can pre-order a copy (on CD and/or Vinyl!) of The Trumpet Child now at OvertheRhine.com and receive three free mp3's immediately. A little taste without giving away too many surprises? Those that pre-order will also receive a special treat when the CD's ship in August. (We think the extra bit will put a smile on your face this time around?) And finally, many of the CD's in our back catalog are currently on sale for $9.99 if you want to fill in a gap or two in your collection, or pick up a gift for a friend. Drop us a line and let us know what's new, what's on your mind. Hopefully we'll see you later this Summer and Fall. Quite a few of the tour dates have been posted on the site, with more coming soon. It's all happening. Enjoy, Linford (and Karin) Over the Rhine OvertheRhine.com ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Sun Jul 8 13:04:55 2007 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 13:04:55 EDT Subject: [OTR Announce] Over the Rhine The Trumpet Child Webcast Tonight Message-ID: Hi again from Ohio, Just a quick reminder, go to OvertheRhine.com at 8pm Eastern this evening to hear the new Over the Rhine CD, The Trumpet Child, broadcast in its entirety. Log into The Orchard afterwards (you must create an account in advance, it's free) to chat about the new project with Karin and Linford. Check out OvertheRhine.com now for all the details. Hope to hear from you this evening. Lookin' forward, The OtR team... *** First Impressions of The Trumpet Child by Jeffrey Overstreet "I don't want to waste your time with music you don't need," sings Karin Bergquist at the beginning of Over the Rhine's new album The Trumpet Child. No worries, Karin. We need this kind of glory, passion, and delight in the world. Believe the hype. In some aspects, The Trumpet Child is the best Over the Rhine album ever. Production. Instrumentation. Class. Style. Karin wraps her tongue around these lyrics like she's savoring dark chocolate ice cream, and her voice is like a fine red wine. (Okay, that's not the most original metaphor, but doctors will tell you that red wine is good for you if you have it with dark chocolate, so?.) Lyrically, it's lighter fare than what their fans have come to expect? the meter tips in favor of songs written for cleverness, pleasure and play here, rather than the spiritual questing and relationship wrangling that has dominated previous records. But hey, after the hardship chronicled in the blues of their last studio record, Drunkard's Prayer... The Trumpet Child is a well-deserved party record, celebrating all of the good stuff in life: sex, jazz, Tom Waits, Easter Sunday Morning? it's all here. But man oh man, the album leaves me wanting more. In the very best ways. I want a second disc full of songs like these. They spoiled us rotten with that double-album Ohio a few years back. It's hard to accept that this release is over in less than 42 minutes. I'm glad I've got tickets to both Seattle shows in September. It's gonna take that much to satiate my appetite for This Year's Model of Over the Rhine. Do I sound greedy? Hey, Karin herself declares, right here on this record, "When it comes to wanting what's real / There's no such thing as greed." In some cases, the individual songs leave me wanting more. I wanted the title track to keep going and going. I predict it's going to become The Favorite Over the Rhine Song for many of their fans. I heard them "try it out" way last August, with just voice and piano, and it was awesome; hearing what they do with it here, well? it's going to achieve unforgettable moments of sacred glory at their future shows. Oh, and what do you know: Linford Detweiler gets to ramble his way through a song that his fans will love even more than "Jack's Valentine." I hope "Don't Wait for Tom" pleases Tom Waits, because it is one heckuva tribute, running over with references to Waits not only in the lyrics but in Linford's rhythmic delivery too. Linford's piano performances are especially flirtatious and sprightly this time around, and he strikes up some combustible chemistry with the jazzy horn ensembles and guitars. It's a reinvention for Over the Rhine that will have listeners thinking of songwriters from Cole Porter to Portishead's Beth Gibbons. I've only heard the album through once. Anne and I lit candles and savored the experience, which is our ritual for first experiences with new Over the Rhine material. And although I've been living with live performances of about half of these songs for close to a year now, I've found the experience so so intense and concentrated that I'm waiting until tomorrow to listen again. If The Trumpet Child doesn't catapult Over the Rhine to the kind of acclaim and attention they've so long deserved, well, it's certainly not their fault. Those critics who think their fans make too much of them are going to have a tough time dismissing this one. It may not be super-sized, but hallelujah, it's a classic. Tune in tonight for the live webcast of the entire album! Check their website for details. Otherwise, you'll probably be waiting until AUGUST 21. *** http://lookingcloser.wordpress.com/2007/07/08/dont-miss-tomorrow-nights-over-t he-rhine-webcast/ ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Thu Jul 26 11:28:11 2007 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:28:11 EDT Subject: [OTR Announce] Join Over the Rhine in Two Stunning Locations Message-ID: Hi from Ohio, Hope you all are enjoying July. We've been having beautiful Ohio summer weather, lots of sun, fluffy white clouds, chilly nights made for after dark walking. Lots happening with Over the Rhine to report. We'll try to keep it short this time around. The Trumpet Child has arrived safely with full artwork intact. We have held it in our hands. This baby is a bouncing beauty if we say so ourselves! You can pre-order your copy now which will ship to arrive at your door on or before August 21st. If you'd like to hear the music, you can stream The Trumpet Child on the OtR Record Player at OvertheRhine.com. All those who pre-order will receive an exclusive treat which makes us grin from ear to ear. It's a surprise, so we ain't sayin' nothin' more. (Special thanks to all who have pre-ordered already. Purchasing OtR CD's directly through OvertheRhine.com is the most direct way to support our music. We really do appreciate you all. Thanks again!) You can read a mini-mini-review of The Trumpet Child here: http://blogger.xs4all.nl/werksman/archive/2007/07/26/263380.aspx *** And (!), join Over the Rhine in the coming week in two stunning locations: Karin and Linford will be performing an acoustic living room concert in Albuquerque, NM, this Saturday, July 28, at the Golden West Saloon. And the full band will be convening for a show on Wednesday, August 1, at the beautiful Fox Theater in Boulder, CO. (This concert is part of a radio convention in Boulder which is hosting many songwriters and bands throughout the week including Steve Earle, Los Lobos, The Subdudes, Paula Cole etc.) Pls join us - we're long overdue to reconnect with many of you in Denver and Boulder. It would be great to see some familiar faces at The Fox. Check out OvertheRhine.com for all the particulars on the above. Also, if you're unable to meet up in the next few days, don't dismay: Over the Rhine is coming to a town near you. Check out the concert dates at OvertheRhine.com and make plans to join us on the Trumpet Child Tour. (More dates continue to be added?) We've got an exceptional band and crew together, and we're looking forward to opening wide many an evening. (We're kicking off the USA tour with a gala hometown show at beautiful Coney Island Moonlight Gardens in Cincinnati on Friday, August 31st.) More soon, and keep in touch, OtR (Feel free to pass this info around to family and friends. Thanks!) Visit OvertheRhine.com for much more. ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Tue Aug 28 11:38:18 2007 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:38:18 EDT Subject: [OTR Announce] Back From Europe Ready for the Next Chapter Message-ID: Hello from Nowhere Farm, We flew back from Belfast Sunday evening, arrived home safely to a couple of grinning dogs and a swaggering cat. Last night, Karin came opened the screen door and said, Drop everything, come quick. I ran outside, and we watched a plump, golden, full moon rise over the fields once again drenching the world in an eery, after dark light. When a full moon rises in a clear sky out here on the farm, it always feels like the brightest night of our lives. It had been 5 years since we'd been across the great pond to the old world. Karin did the math and realized that since our last trip in 2002, we had released eight CD's: OHIO Changes Come | Over the Rhine LIVE Drunkard's Prayer Live From Nowhere Volume One Snow Angels Discount Fireworks Live From Nowhere Volume Two The Trumpet Child So we had a lot of catching up to do with folks abroad who have found all this music. We enjoyed Holland once again. The Dutch are easily some of the most organized, most efficient folks on the planet. We can't understand why we don't just get them over here to fix New Orleans - they know all about reclaiming reams of land from the ocean, planting pristine forests, weaving their endless bike paths through it all. The production at Flevo Festival is world class, and we're hoping to get our hands on some of the film footage they shot of our mainstage performance. Thanks for the hospitality. We got to spend 4 nights in Scotland (Crief and Comrie). The weather was sunny and lovely. We hopped on the train to Edinburgh to meet up with Jack and Hazel and 6-year-old Finlay, and then Jack came up to the Highlands for a few days. We sat out under the stars and reminisced, solved the world's problems over a glass of something good as we are prone to do. Juicy wondered up into the hills to talk to the sheep about the world's first blues singer, David the shepherd boy, songwriter, fighter, lover, king, a man after God's own heart. We played a show in Comrie in an old church that had been converted into a concert venue, and it's always inspiring to see a village come together to put on a show, off the beaten path. Dr. Payne cooked a fabulous meal for us, and 15-year-old Scottish girls bought copies of The Trumpet Child and had us sign them. It was good to be back at Greenbelt Festival - (Over the Rhine's sixth in fifteen years) - lots of memories made at this festival including Karin's song, The Seahorse (and in 1995, our first ever whirlwind trip to Wales to find Dylan Thomas's writing shack). This time around, Billy Bragg sounded great, and we ran into Robert from Willard Grant Conspiracy (who toured with us extensively on the Films For Radio tour). Also ran into Ian Archer (and Miriam), a fine songwriter from Ireland, who turned us on to Lowden acoustic guitars back in 1990's. Karin and I have played them ever since. It was good to see Ric and Josh and Sarah Masen and Steve Stockman - pretty much impossible (especially for Jake) to walk around a corner without recognizing someone. Brandon got to meet up with friends he hadn't seen in years, and Lloyd had e-mailed us about sampling a 25-year-old Scotch after our show. We were happy to oblige, and there we were sitting in a tent, the sound of our laughter and real conversation and music in the distance, something resembling the Holy Spirit our glasses. (If bread and wine remind us of Jesus, a glass of Scottish Whisky aged with care in the misty hills is a pretty good symbol of the 3rd member of the Trinity.) We ended with a quick trip to Belfast - and played a gorgeous concert hall in Armagh. Then back home to our little farm in Southern Ohio - as beautiful in its own way as anything we saw on our entire trip. We were talking a lot about Home the last few weeks. Karin and I have chosen a life where pretty much every day we get to spend at home is a prize, a rare gift, something we worked for, an event drenched in gratitude. And yet, maybe home is not really about geography or air quality, or moonlight, or being in the city or out of the city, or in a red state or blue state, or in a music town or a working class town. Maybe home has more to do with the work we've all done as individuals to increasingly become people we can live with. Maybe home is the desire to live soulfully, the tiny ongoing decisions we make that allow the soul room to breathe. That's our prayer for our extended musical family: that we would all find lives that allow the soul to thrive. *** Speaking of, wanna get together this week? (The Trumpet Child has arrived. We're having a good time with this one.) Here's what we've got: Thursday, August 30, 7pm, Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Rookwood) in our old neighborhood of Norwood, Ohio: We'll be playing an acoustic set featuring songs from The Trumpet Child, and signing copies of the CD, giving away posters etc. This is a free performance - everyone is welcome. (We've realized we're probably not going to be able to greet all y'all at the Coney show, other than from stage, so pls stop by Jo-Beth this Thursday if you're able - we'd love to see you prior to embarking on one of our most extensive tours of the USA ever.) Friday, August 31, 7pm: This is our big hometown, Trumpet Child release concert, with special guest Josh Rouse. Finally! Karin has given Coney Island the recipe for Show Ponies (a fab summer drink we were served on tour in New Zealand, referenced in the new song I'm On A Roll) so you might wannna sample one, I dunno. For those who don't know, Moonlight Gardens is a stunning outdoor venue at one of Cincinnati's old treasures - Coney Island - a historic amusement park on the banks of the Ohio River. WNKU will be taping the concert. Hope you can join us. (If you want to make a holiday wknd of it, one of the largest fireworks shows in the Midwest takes place this Sunday evening in downtown Cincinnati.) Saturday, September 1st - We're packing the band into The Dame in Lexington, Kentucky, for an early show. Check out OverTheRhine.com for details. (In case you've forgotten, The Dame is next to one of our favorite hat shops in the world.) This Sunday, September 2nd - We're performing at 3rd and Lindsley, Nashville, Tennessee, with special guests Swan Dive. WRLT will be broadcasting the Over the Rhine concert live on the air. (Tune in on-line as well.) The West Coast Tour starts in a few weeks. Check out OverTheRhine.com for much more. Hope to see you soon, Linford (and Karin) ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Tue Sep 11 12:17:30 2007 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:17:30 EDT Subject: [OTR Announce] Over the Rhine Heads West (and more) Message-ID: Hello everyone, We built the last fire of September on Nowhere Farm this past Sunday evening. Opened a good bottle of wine, sat by the fire, looked at the Ohio milky way spilled extravagantly over the ancient maples. I took the last bike ride of September yesterday evening on my little six mile route through the fields before dinner and watched the sun set turning the clouds silver and every shade of rouge imaginable. Early this morning before sunrise, a thunderstorm got into a tussle over the house and Elroy climbed into bed with us for the duration. We walked the paths when we got up after morning rains. The golden rod is turning, the fields are starting to turn a warm yellow, and there's a goldfinch sitting on a late summer nest in one of our little locust trees. It's time to say goodbye to the farm once again. We'll be home in October. Over the Rhine's Trumpet Child tour heads West this week beginning with two SOLD OUT shows at Seattle's beautiful Triple Door. Check OverTheRhine.com for upcoming tour diary updates and photos. Karin's first Trumpet Child tour diary entry (Release) is enclosed at the end of this letter. A couple of late matters of business: We are going to need at least two merch volunteers in each city on this upcoming run. If you'd like to help us out, pls send an e-mail to merch at overtherhine.com, with the following in the subject line: ?MERCH VOLUNTEERS (Date, City, State).? In the e-mail, pls include your first and last name, e-mail address and cell phone number, along with those of anyone you've enlisted to help. If you don't hear back, it just means we're covered for that date. Thanks so much - a big help to us. And check out OverTheRhine.com for new Trumpet Child ring tones (a first for us?) and more fun stuff. (And we're finally announcing the t-shirt design winners (!) this week: stay tuned.) We'll see you out on the great American highway. Without further ado, over to Karin: Tour Diary August 30 - September 4, 2007 CD Release? >From the pre-show in-store book-benders at Jo-Beths, to the Big Band gala glory of moonlit Moonlight Gardens, to the sweaty rockin' out toxic swill of Lexington's Dame, to the radio friendly song seekers @ Nashville's 3rd & Lindsley, and home again? So that's how you rock and roll through jet lag? Ok. I get it. Carry on then. One UK/European run done, one CD Release weekend, four months on the road to go, and we'll call that a good start. We'll talk about 2008 later. I'm going to have to take it one day at a time for a while please. We're greasing the gears, padding our lumpy, bumpy van bunks with books and feather tics, Jake's casing up the amps and holding her steady, and Mickey's trying to figure out how to bundle his menagerie of skins and toys to strike and smack, and we're taking our vitamins and diffusing essential oils, packing our best clothes. I'm spending as much of the next few days as I can at my peaceful farm with my sweet furry hounds and one old cat. Brandon, Dave, Nick and the guys will do much the same with their wives and sons and daughters, friends and family, no doubt questioning why the hell they are leaving their homes for what Robbie Robertson dubbed a 'goddamn impossible way of life' anyway. And all the while knowing it's what they do. And we'll give Elroy a treat, a Great Dane sized hug, and tell him how we're going to try to make him proud and bring home the doggy chow and that this is what we were born to do like he was born to run. We'll throw the Frisbee as far and as hard as we can for the Weimie. And scratch his chest till his eyes glaze over and tell him what a good boy he is. You know, all those things that you say, YOU the reader, the listener, and all the things that you do for us? you often follow up a compliment with 'I'm sure you hear this all the time' and we smile and try to find a fresh way to say, 'Yeah, but if you only knew how badly we needed to hear it today' and smile and only say thank you. Bill's bouquets remind me that yes I really am a girl and I love that (!) and Keith offers civilized and extravagant gifts of wine that we treasure for special celebratory moments at home. And then there's Kent and Sue flying across the Midwest to spend their holiday weekend with us. Kylie and her infamous ornery sweetness - does she know how many big brothers and sisters she really has? You all (far too many to mention by name) have NO IDEA what you mean to us. And in our often hectic pre-show agenda and our post-show stupor we fumble around to find the words and only come up with Thank Yous. We wanna do better. West-coasters, we're coming your way. It's always a gift, and we're bringing new songs and looking forward to seeing some faces, old and new. All good faces. Let this CD Release Party continue on... I think often about the word Release and what it means to us and to me. Our feeble English language where one word bears the weight of so many disjointed, misfired, slipshod meanings and interpretations. Release. What it meant to my old girl Willow when she took her last breath and heard the word whispered in her ear, Release. What it means when an entire year (or more) of your life is devoted to the making of a recording of music (and the songs that probably took thirty + years to mature in the oak barrels of your soul) and how it feels when the little brown box comes to you in the hands of a stranger in a delivery uniform, and you sign the Release form and run inside the house and cut carefully the sealed edges to reveal the lovingly (Rob Seiffert) designed digipak inside. Is it like giving birth and graduating this life force all in one day? At one moment re sponsible for everything and then for nothing as it is Released out into the world, all completely out of your hands? Release. So, I guess I need to mention that I haven't had much spare time to document all the tour diary festivities of this past month. Really, it's all a little blurry. Hopefully these words will do. With Elroy's help, I woke today at 8:30am, plodded outside in my PJ's and turned on the desperate sprinkler underneath the maple trees that have started dropping entire limbs (!) because it is so dry. Took the boys for their morning walk -- I walk, they tear through the paths -- threw the Frisbee for the Wiemie, played rope-a-dope with the Big Guy (that's Elroy, not God, although? I've played rope-a-dope with God on numerous occasions) and made a pot of Chuck's best coffee. Linford is still sacked out. I would be too, but I took the first morning home shift with the boys. He will take his turn tomorrow. I love all this. This is the only reward I'll ever need. Ok, and maybe the occasional gorgeous bouquet of flowers. And maybe the odd, one-off dog-shaped statue from Sophie and her sweet folks from Alabama. It was awfully good of WRLT to broadcast our set over the Nashville airwaves. All of you folks down there remember to thank them for us. We'll be back in December to do another show with them - this time at the Belcourt. And, yes, Brad Jones will be there. Heaven only knows what he'll decide to play this time. He can play whatever he pleases as far as I'm concerned. Would that we could clone him so he could continue to produce great recordings at his studio while simultaneously touring the country with us. That man should have a twin! Fats will be weaving his melodic tapestries on the road with Kevin Welch and Kieran Kane for much of September. Catch them if they're in your neck of the woods. We'll try to grab Fats again as soon as possible for some more Over the Rhine time. I'm sure we'll be kidnapping Paul Patterson away from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as well, as allowed. He is positively Herculean. (!) Molly Felder will be joining us from time to time out there on the great American Highway. Between full time motherhood and her wonderful music with Swan Dive, she's got her hands full. Molly is always welcome to sing and swing with us. I think Linford describes her best -- a bundle full of joy up there on the stage. And an incredibly talented one, at that. Ok all. We're comin' atcha with our black-eyed Susans. Let's play. And most of all? Thank You. Karin (and Linford) PS Special thanks to Misty, my guardian angel liaison and metaphysical traveling companion. ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: