[OTR Announce] Over the Rhine The Trumpet Child Webcast Tonight

[Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine]

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...

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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/



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