From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Fri Jul 3 10:54:19 2009 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:54:19 -0400 Subject: [OTR Announce] Happy July from Over the Rhine Message-ID: <8CBCA05471E211A-D88-2DDA@webmail-dd04.sysops.aol.com> Hello all, Just a quick hello and update. (Look for a letter from Linford next week.) If you're in the Chicago area this wknd, Over the Rhine is performing at Fitzgerald?s American Music Festival on Saturday, July 4th at 4pm. Come join us if you can for some sultry summertime songs. On Saturday, July 11th, at 7:30pm, Over the Rhine is playing a FREE CONCERT with the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra at Devou Park in Covington ? just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. The orchestra will play instrumental compositions by Elvis Costello, and accompany Over the Rhine on selections from The Trumpet Child, some tunes from the Great American Songbook and revisit a few early, seldom-heard OtR songs with the band. This promises to be a special evening. Hope to see you! Look for more announcements next week regarding: The first ever Over the Rhine songbook (it will be available at the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra concert). Live From Nowhere Volume Four (a deluxe 2-disc package featuring the Friday night performances from OtR?s 20th Anniversary Reunion Concert with Ric and Brian (and friends) at the Taft last December). Plus more on upcoming tour dates, including a special Cincinnati Coney Island show on September 11th, West Coast dates with Katie Herzig, a return to beautiful Cain Park in Cleveland, and much, much more. Have a lovely holiday weekend and hope our paths cross soon! O ver the Rhine From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Sat Jul 11 18:17:51 2009 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:17:51 -0400 Subject: [OTR Announce] FREE SHOW Over the Rhine With Full Orchestra TONIGHT Message-ID: <8CBD08C90C985CA-3468-1D16B@webmail-stg-m05.sysops.aol.com> Good evening friends, According to the radar, looks like the weather might just cooperate perfectly after all! TONIGHT, 7:30pm at Devou Park in Covington, Kentucky, just across the river from Cincinnati, high in the hills: Hear Over the Rhine in concert with full orchestral accompaniment, as Over the Rhine songs new and old bloom in the cooling night air (along with compositions by Elvis Costello, Cole Porter and more). See you there! OtR From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Wed Jul 15 10:50:22 2009 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:50:22 -0400 Subject: [OTR Announce] All the Latest Over the Rhine News Message-ID: <8CBD372B739E36B-E14-2B69@webmail-me07.sysops.aol.com> Hello friends and extended musical family, It?s been a beautiful summer so far. Hope you?re enjoying it. I woke up at 7:15 and gave everything in the vegetable garden a drink. Karin watered all of her flowerbeds last night. We?ve been eating cucumber salads and making pesto and last week we took two laundry baskets full of zucchini and crook neck squash to the orchestra rehearsals. (Karin felt that there was no better ice-breaker than a big green zucchini.) The players snatched them up and later in the week we heard all about zucchini brownies, zucchini on the grill, zucchini bread. I had hoped that maybe a baritone sax player or a valve trombone player would slip a zucchini into the bell of their horn for a mute at some point, but I did not see that. Karin and I have been talking about writing a collection of garden poems, somewhat erotic in nature, called, The Illicit Zucchini. Not sure where we?re going with it, but I have made a mental note that zucchini rhymes nicely with bikini. I remember wondering aloud after we had our first garden out here about whether the church had missed a sin. The pleasure of cupping ones hand around the smooth underbelly of a vine-ripened tomato is about as blood red sensual as it gets. Yep, they might have forgotten to forbid that one. But actually we?ve gravitated mostly toward yellow tomatoes. They?re full of flavor, less acidic. I feel like I?m in the act of eating something golden, nectar filled, something the ancient Greeks would have passed around on a platter. People ask us what we grow on the farm. Well, songs, of course, first and foremost. And Karin?s flowers. And a large vegetable and herb garden. We tame our once-neglected farm by cutting meandering paths just about everywhere. But we leave the edges wild with weeds: thistle, milkweed, dogbane, golden rod, inkberries, red clover, Virginia creeper. I scribbled this recently in a poem I was working on about my father: Let the songbirds have thorny hidden places for their wild melodies. Yes, the songbirds do seem to appreciate the untamed edges of the world. This morning Elroy and I startled about two dozen bobwhite quail on the back paths. They exploded into flight and then coasted low and away toward the edge of the farm. Sometimes an indigo bunting will leave a streak in the air so blue you can close your eyes and still see it for days. And we love to watch the native saplings reclaim their rightful places: the red maple, black locust, black cherry, persimmon? the tupelo, ash, elm, cedar? hackberry, mulberry, silver maple, pin oak? When the sun goes down, you might see me out walking after dark, feeling the coolness along the edges of the trees, the open air above our meadow full of clover. 0A Slowly the land is revealing itself to us. Yes. ** Well, big thanks to all of you who came and found us in the hills high above the Ohio River last Saturday evening. I thought the orchestra sounded amazing, and it?s a thrill to play with an orchestra ? a rare gift for a songwriter. It had rained on and off for much of the day and we had just about written off the whole thing at one point, but lo and behold the clouds parted just in time, the air cooled and a beautiful evening emerged. I was a little more nervous than usual, but I think it all came together beautifully. Thanks for being there. (If you think all the previous vegetable ramblings were risqu?, try reading the lyrics to Afternoon Delight sometime, let alone singing it with a straight face. We?ll have to see if the recording turned out.) Yes, it is still the 20th Anniversary of Over the Rhine, and we still do have a few 20th Anniversary aces up our sleeves. So here goes: The Trumpet Child Deluxe Songbook I think probably more than any other question over the years, we have been repeatedly asked, When will there be sheet music available for Over the Rhine?s music?? Well after 20 years, we are finally taking you seriously. We now have our first OtR songbook! We started with all the songs on The Trumpet Child, and by the time we added all the extras, we were hol ding a 126 page book packed full of music and various surprises. Whether or not you intend to actually play the notes (which we carefully edited at our home piano here on the farm) we think you might like this keepsake of sorts, which documents profusely the most recent musical chapter of Over the Rhine. Yes, it?s got the piano music, guitar chords, lyrics, photos, a rambling essay by yours truly, playful performance notes and more. Pick up your copy now at OvertheRhine.com? and let us know what you think. (Special thanks to Michael Wilson, Bill Ivester and The Brothers Wright for the many photographs. And thanks to John, Casey and Andy at our publishing company for helping make it all happen!) Live From Nowhere Volume Four Wow. Number four in this series already? Volume One focused mostly on the Drunkard?s Prayer tour featuring Devon Ashley on drums, Rick Plant on guitar and bass, Byron House on upright bass and Kim Taylor singing harmonies and playing acoustic guitar. (Now available digitally only.) Volume Two saw the line-up of the band evolve to include Mickey Grimm on drums and percussion and Jake Bradley on upright bass and guitar, and this collection prominently features the playing of special guest and Cincinnati treasure, Paul Patterson. (A handful of unsigned CD?s still remain, because we realized we missed a box. Also available digitally.) Volume Three was al l about The Trumpet Child, but includes some performances from the Ani DiFranco tour, when we opened the shows as an acoustic trio. Hear producer Brad Jones, Mickey Grimm, Jake Bradley and Paul Patterson work their magic on the band?s most recent songs. Volume Three was recorded live and mixed from beginning to end by Juicy himself. (A limited number of CD?s still available.) Which brings us to Volume Four, the current installment! We had so much to choose from for Volume Four, but we realized, before the moment passed, that we really needed to dedicate this edition to the special reunion concert that took place with Ric Hordinski and Brian Kelley (and many talented friends) on Friday night, December 19, 2008, at the Taft Theater. We turned up the amps and even Karin broke out her electric guitar as we revisited the recordings from the first decade of Over the Rhine. What can I say? It was electric fun, a truly memorable evening in all the best ways, and we tried our best to bottle the experience for you. It took TWO CD?S, and a 20-page booklet, and a special package, but we got it done. Paul Mahern (producer of OHIO and Drunkard?s Prayer) helped us get Volume Four all put together and sounding good (before he flew off to work with T-Bone Burnett). We?ll have the CD?s in 2-3 weeks, and they?ll ship as soon as they arrive. If you pre-order your=2 0copy now, you can download all the music immediately and dive in. Let us know what you think. Here is the track listing: Over the Rhine LIVE FROM NOWHERE Volume Four 20th Anniversary Reunion Concert Decade One TWO CD?S ? LIMITED EDITION DISC ONE 1. Eyes Wide Open 2. How Does It Feel (To Be On My Mind) 3. HDIF Reprise 4. Within Without 5. Like A Radio 6. Conjectures Of A Guilty Bystander 7. June 8. Circle Of Quiet 9. Daddy Untwisted DISC TWO 1. Paul And Virginia 2. Poughkeepsie 3. Faithfully Dangerous 4. A Gospel Number 5. All I Need Is Everything 6. If I?m Drowning 7. I Painted My Name 8. Latter Days Recorded Live, Friday, December 19, 2008 at The Taft Theatre in Cincinnati, Ohio. The exciting thing about Volume Four is that many of these songs evolved significantly in concert from the original recordings and were never before released. So it feels like Volume Four fills a significant gap in our musical journey thus far. (If you?re new to the band, maybe these recordings will make you curious about our first handful of records: Till We Have Faces, Patience, eve and Good Dog Bad Dog. If so, don?t be shy.) Again, pre-order your copy now at OvertheRhine.com, and you can download the music on both discs immediately. Hope you like! And finally, we have quite a f ew concert dates in the coming weeks and months: Albuquerque, Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Bloomington, IN, Louisville, Lexington, Milwaukee, Madison, Minneapolis, SLC, The West Coast etc etc. (Please check out OvertheRhine.com for details and tickets.) Finally, we wanted to especially make you aware of one of our hometown faves: Friday, September 11, 2009: An evening with Over the Rhine at Coney Island Moonlite Gardens in Cincinnati, Ohio. Join us by the Ohio River in this beautiful, historic venue and bring the family. Hope to see you under the stars. Well, that?s about all the news I can fit into the usual four pages. Twenty years folks. We thank you. Whaddya say we do something good in the next twenty? We?ve got some ideas. Love from Nowhere, Linford and Karin PS Pls pass this letter around to the usual suspects. Print it out, climb a tulip tree and wave it at passing cars. Tweet key phrases. Scribble excerpts in the margins of your biology textbook. Cross-stitch a paragraph on a porch swing pillow. Tattoo a phrase or two on a smooth-skinned limb. And my personal favorite: line the birdcage with multiple copies and let the white doves crap all night long. From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Fri Aug 14 14:38:29 2009 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:38:29 -0400 Subject: [OTR Announce] Over the Rhine Concerts and more Message-ID: <8CBEB258D22A4E0-FC8-3F5@WEBMAIL-MZ23.sysops.aol.com> Hello extended musical family, Karin and Linford just finished up a week teaching workshops at Song School in Lyons, Colorado, and the band is currently flying out to join them at Rocky Folks Festival this wknd along with artists Rufus Wainwright, Gillian Welch, Madeleine Peyroux and many others. Join Over the Rhine in this stunning location if you can. Over the Rhine takes the stage at Rocky Folks Festival at 5:30pm on Saturday. There are more dates immediately following as Over the Rhine tours their way home through the Midwest, back to Ohio with the full band. We would love to see you. Also, Live From Nowhere Volume Four has arrived and has been shipping to those of you who ordered. (Thanks!) This double disc set documents the Friday night, Decade One Reunion Concert at the Taft Theatre last December. Contains a 20-page booklet, 2 CD?s and much electric fun. And check out Over the Rhine?s new Trumpet Child Deluxe Songbook: 126 pages of music and love. Available now at OvertheRhine.com. Below are the upcoming shows. They?re not the same without you. Lookin? forward, OtR *** Over the Rhine IN CONCERT: Saturday, August 15, Lyons, CO, Rocky Folks Festival w/Gillian Welch, Rufus Wainwright and many more. Over the Rhine on stage at 5:30pm Saturday. Monday, August 17, Omaha, NE, The Waiting Room. With special guest Ari Hest. Tuesday, August 18, Kansas City, MO, Crosstown Station. With special guest Ari Hest. Thursday, August 20, St. Louis, MO, Blueberry Hill. With special guest Ari Hest. Friday, August 21, Bloomington, IN, The Bluebird. (An evening with Over the Rhine.) Saturday, August 22, Louisville, KY, 930 Listening Room. With special guest Katie Herzig. Sunday, August 23, Lexington, KY, Natasha?s Bistro and Boutique. (A very cozy evening with OtR.) And don?t miss our outdoor concert down by the Ohio River under the stars at one of our all-time favorite venues: Friday, September 11, Cincinnati, OH, Moonlite Gardens at Coney Island. (An evening with Over the Rhine.) Check out OvertheRhine.com for much, much more. (Northeast December dates will be posted soon.) From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Thu Sep 10 12:18:56 2009 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:18:56 -0400 Subject: [OTR Announce] This Friday, Sept 11, Over the Rhine at Coney Island Message-ID: <8CC004987DF0E7F-1BBC-1BEE2@webmail-m077.sysops.aol.com> Hi all, We?ve been having gorgeous early fall weather in Ohio. We were exchanging a few notes with author Sara Zarr recently when she sent this little gift of a paragraph through: This book is a lot about the realization everyone gets at some point in their lives that the world is broken, and we don't know how to fix it, and the longing we all have for it to be set right - and the ways we fumble when we're trying to work out where to put that longing. So many of your songs are about that, too (for me). ** So on a day when we're losing the plot, and need to hit the reset button, we sometimes just change it to: Our music is about the realization everyone gets at some point in their lives that the world is broken, and we don't know how to fix it, and the longing we all have for it to be set right - and the ways we fumble when we're trying to work out where to put that longing. That?s enough to keep us interested. How?s this for a segue: This Friday, September 11, join Over the Rhine in concert, and we?ll pool our collective longing, and try to make a beautiful place for it. Here?s the dirt: This Friday, September 11, Over the Rhine in Concert, at beautiful Moonlight Gardens, at Coney Island, Cincinnati, Ohio, just a stones throw from the Ohio River. Doors open at 7pm. Showtime: 8pm. We?ll be playing two sets with the full band ? reeling right through the heart of our repertoire ? many of the songs we?ve recently played from Cleveland to Albuquerque to Boulder and back again. Kim Taylor will be stepping in from time to time to sing harmonies. We hope to see you there. More soon and xo from Nowhere, Linford and Karin ps And tonight, Thursday, September 10, Karin performs the songs Professional Daydreamer and Ohio with the Cincinnati Ballet at a special fundraiser for the ballet called NEW WORKS. Tickets: 513.621.5282 or cincinnatiballet.com.