From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Tue Oct 6 16:23:06 2009 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:23:06 -0400 Subject: [OTR Announce] October Update Letter from Over the Rhine Message-ID: <8CC14D9F28C6ED3-858-E3D2@webmail-d047.sysops.aol.com> Hello extended musical family, How in the world are you? (You might want to pour a glass or mug of something good, sit back and get comfortable.) It?s October in Ohio. Our little piece of slow curving earth is changing right in front of our eyes everyday. Color is slipping into the faces of the trees. The nights are chilly. I slip on a wool sweater and a cap now when I walk the after dark paths. The orchards are selling their new apples. I picked up a bag of jonathans recently ? an excellent eating apple for late afternoons. A lot of folks have been talking about the honey crisps. I look for an apple not too sweet that pops and snaps when you sink your teeth into it and break off a bite. Karin and I celebrated our wedding anniversary yesterday ? a clear, crisp fall day much like the day that found us 13 years ago in Eden Park in Cincinnati surrounded by family and friends. It?s good to be in love. And we?re just back from Canada. Our niece Maria was married on Saturday, the first Detweiler grandchild to tie the knot. She and her husband wrote part of their own vows and what struck me was how they promised each other that they would do everything they could to help the other meet their full potential. It was as if they believed the other had the raw materials to be truly great, and they each were owning a responsibi lity, a duty to help their partner get there, even if they didn?t fully understand yet what that looked like. I don?t think I had ever quite heard this at a wedding ceremony. Maybe it?s something the younger generation gets. I like it. When we arrived back at the farm, we were sad to hear that the father of Kenny Hutson (the multi-instrumentalist that?s been touring with us for a good while) passed away Sunday evening. We think of all the late night stories that Kenny has told us about growing up hunting and fishing in Georgia and playing bluegrass with his father. Apparently when Kenny?s Dad was at a music festival years ago getting ready to walk on stage, Bill Monroe leaned in and gave him the following instructions: Y?all just rare back And let it go Like you ain?t got A care in the world. Our thoughts are with Kenny and his family. We are at the stage of life where we are watching the young begin their fresh chapters, as our parents and their friends begin now one by one to speak their last few lines and step off stage. Living out here on our little farm in Southern Ohio for almost five years now, we feel the deep rhythm of the seasons like never before. The full moon rises in a different place every month as it circles the house. Different wild flowers bloom at different times ? the asters being one of the v ery last of summer to splash their colors around the farm. The hummingbirds vanish before the first hint of frost. The September sky opens up, the clouds get bigger and whiter. It all begins to feel familiar as it cycles over and over. I ran across this from my journal earlier this year: March 17, 2009: ?Now it feels like Spring is nosing around. The maple trees have their red buds. The finches have hints of gold seeping into their soft bodies. The yard is greening. The weatherman says 70 degrees today. Hooray. Some overachieving midwestern robin is already well on her way to every robin?s dream: building the world?s most sturdy nest. She arranges her grasses, stuffs her family?s mattress. Twenty years ago this month, without knowing what we were doing, we began making tentative new recordings in a basement garage. All we had was a dream and more heartache than we knew what to do with. We have left behind a trail of deeply flawed recordings, hopefully as deeply flawed as our own humanity/hearts, and in that sense, honest. We wanted the music to make us look better than we actually were. I suppose we succeeded somewhat, but mostly failed to pull the wool over the eyes of the world. There is a lot of aspiration in the music. We wrote what we longed for. We wrote a lot with our eyes closed (more about the world inside than the world outside?). We aim ed impossibly high and prayed that when we fell inevitably short, it would still somehow be good. We tried to write songs that would stick to the listener?s skin. We tried to write songs that someone might want to listen to on their next to last day on earth. Isn?t that, after all, pretty much everyday? We tried to write songs that were relevant to the moments in life most pregnant with significance and possibility. We tried. What excites me more than the first twenty years is the next twenty. A yet-to-be-written-book. It feels like spring. Someone said, In your twenties and thirties you learn. In your forties and fifties you earn. I like that. Hopefully, I?m less torn up inwardly now. Less conflicted. (Some might argue this is a liability for a writer. I don?t think so.) It?ll be good to see how it all shakes out. New terrain. Choose your clich?.? ** Yes, the next 20 years. It?s no longer springtime and yet we know seasons bursting with creativity will come round again in their time. It?s gray and wet outside today but new songs are starting to land. We have a few finished that are beginning to point the way forward for the many songs that are unfinished. We?ll see where it goes. We hope you can come along. We hope you sink your teeth into the not too sweet songs and feel the pop and snap as you break off a bite. And we know this: when the nights begin to get colder, we come looking for you. It?s October. If we squint our eyes we can see all the way to the end of the year. Hope to see you, Linford and Karin ** OVER THE RHINE IN CONCERT 2009 NORTH: (This week!) October 8, Thursday, Milwaukee, WI, PABST THEATER (Special guest, Vienna Teng) October 9, Friday, Madison, WI, MAJESTIC THEATRE (Special guest, Vienna Teng) October 10, Saturday, Minneapolis, MN, CEDAR CULTURAL CENTER (Special guest, Vienna Teng) WEST: November 2, Monday, Denver, CO, SOILED DOVE (Special guest, Katie Herzig) November 4, Wednesday, Salt Lake City, UT, THE STATE ROOM (Special guest, Katie Herzig) November 6, Friday, San Diego, CA: (CANCELLED.) We were supposed to play Anthology but the venue cancelled because they had an opportunity to make more money hosting a private party. Our apologies. Pls join us in Los Angeles. November 7, Saturday, Los Angeles, CA, LARGO AT THE CORONET (Special guest, Katie Herzig) November 8, Sunday, Los Angeles, CA, LARGO AT THE CORONET (Special guest, Katie Herzig) November 10, Tuesday, San Francisco, CA, GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL (Special guest, Katie Herzig) November 12, Thursday, Portland, OR, DOUG FIR (Special guest, Katie Herzig) November 13, Friday, Portland, OR, DOUG FIR (Special guest, Katie Herzig) November 1 4, Saturday, Seattle, WA, THE TRIPLE DOOR (Special guest, Katie Herzig) November 15, Sunday, Seattle, WA, THE TRIPLE DOOR (Special guest, Katie Herzig) EAST: November 30, Monday, Philadelphia, PA, WORLD CAF? (Special guest, Lucy Wainwright Roche) December 1, Tuesday, New York City, NY, HIGHLINE BALLROOM (Special guest, Lucy Wainwright Roche) December 2, Wednesday, Tarrytown, NY, TARRYTOWN MUSIC HALL (Co-Headline with Vienna Teng) December 4, Friday, Boston, MA, BERKLEE PERFORMANCE CENTER (Co-Headline with Vienna Teng) December 5, Saturday, Old Saybrook, CT, KATHARINE HEPBURN CULTURAL ARTS CENTER (Co-Headline with Vienna Teng) December 6, Sunday, Albany, NY, THE EGG (Co-Headline with Vienna Teng) December 8, Tuesday, Washington, DC, THE SYNAGOGUE (Co-Headline with Vienna Teng) MIDWEST: December 10, Thursday, Kent, OH, KENT STAGE (Special guest, Lucy Wainwright Roche) December 11, Friday, Ann Arbor, MI, THE ARK (Special guest, Lucy Wainwright Roche) December 12, Saturday, Chicago, IL, OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC (TWO SHOWS, 7pm and 10pm!) (Special guest, Lucy Wainwright Roche) December 19, Saturday, Cincinnati, OH, THE TAFT THEATRE, Over the Rhine?s annual holiday homecoming concert. Tickets on sale now at OvertheRhine.com, Taft Theatre Box Office, Ticketmaster etc! December 20, Sunday Soiree, Cincinnati, OH, ST. ELIZABETH?S IN NORWOOD: In addition to the above, Karin and Linford would like to invite you to joi n Over the Rhine on Sunday, December 20th at 3pm at St. Elizabeth's, 1757 Mills Ave., Norwood, Ohio, 45212, for a holiday gathering featuring an acoustic performance, some spoken word, some conversation and of course some festive food and drink. (This gathering takes place the day after our Taft Theatre holiday homecoming concert.) We have had so much fun with this the last four years in a row. It?s a great way to end our working year, surrounded by our extended musical family. See OvertheRhine.com for more details. (Price of admission entitles you to bring a guest OR your spouse and children.) I think that?s about it. Five pages is going to have to do it this time around. Thanks again for everything. (And by the way, if you?ve e-mailed recently, sorry, we?re more than a little behind with correspondence.) xo from Nowhere, L&K PS Please feel more than free to share this letter with family and friends. Forward it, chop it up and TWEET it, FACEBOOK it, MYSPACE it, blog it, podcast it in a posh accent, print it out and let the Weimaraner chew it up like ill-fated homework, crumple it, strike an Ohio bluetip match and light an outdoor fall fire, nail a copy to the sugar maple and let the sap bleed the lines to syrup, place a copy for good luck in each newly raked pile of leaves, line the wooden crates with its pages and then fill them with sweet pot atoes which must cure for 10 days at approximately 85 degrees Farenheit before eating, and finally, our favorite, place a crisp copy (printed on Mohawk Superfine) on the floor of the Victorian bird cage and let the white doves crap all night long. From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Thu Oct 29 13:15:40 2009 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:15:40 -0400 Subject: [OTR Announce] Over the Rhine West Coast Dates & More Message-ID: <8CC26D29306DB1E-4784-79CA@webmail-m058.sysops.aol.com> Hello friends, Clouds of leaves were fluttering down this morning in the breezy fall sun. The normally contemplative cattle dog began barking at the wind, challenging the change in the weather. He runs back and forth along the three-board fence for the sheer pleasure of it, restless with nameless joy. It?s supposed to get up to 70 degrees today. Yes, Ohio has its moments. *** You forget sometimes how it feels. To drive a few hours to see songs embodied and performed on a low lit stage ? songs that have gotten so tangled up in the significant moments of your life, songs that contain so many clues on how to live, songs dense with dark, almost unspeakable beauties ? and then the music begins and you begin remembering ? your bones begin remembering ? the marrow has a memory ? you begin remembering your best imaginings, you become intoxicated with possibility, your eyes brim with the happiest tears: they belong to you and you alone. GK Chesterton said something like, We need priests and pastors to remind us that one day we?re going to die. But we need another kind of priest ? poets and writers and musicians ? to remind us that we?re not dead yet. I like it. Yes, the other night, a friend and I drove a few hours to the capital of Ohio to see one of all my all-time faves, Mr. Leonard Cohen, grace a stage at age 75. His voice: a ragged, beautiful gift. His songs, which slide like glaciers into being, coming to us from some beautiful, substantial beyond? And as I sit towards the front of the balcony, and hear the songs unreel, Bird On A Wire, Anthem, Tower of Song, Suzanne, Famous Blue Raincoat, Hallelujah, I remember how important songs have been to me. And I remember as I sit in the balcony that feeling I felt when I was younger, a feeling so complete it eclipsed everything: If I could help somebody else feel like I feel right now then my life would not be in vain. It only made the evening feel more significant that we drove a few hours ? I read a few of Mr. Cohen?s lyrics aloud as Ric steered North and the fields rolled by; I read a few of LC?s poems that have become personal favorites. That feeling of becoming a little drunk with anticipation? And then you get to the theatre and you look around to see who else had to be there. Who are they, why are they here? Are they into the early songs, the new songs? Did they hear the Jeff Buckley cover of Hallelujah? Madeleine Peyroux sing Dance Me to the End of Love? Are they fans of his early novels or the poems? Who are we?? Mr. Cohen has said a few times on this tour, The last time I stood on this stage was fourteen years ago. I was 60 years old, just a crazy kid with a dream. Yes, on a Tuesday night in Ohio, Leonard Cohen repeatedly got down on one knee to sing his towering songs, songs full of unforgettable proposals. God Bless you LC. May we all be in such a beautiful groove at age 75. (I saw a girl after the concert walking alone down the sidewalk, exclaiming into her cellphone, giddy with joy, I SAW HIM!! There was nothing else to say. She had obviously completed something important on her list of things to do before she died.) Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That?s how the light gets in (LC, Anthem) So as we pack our suitcases today to go find our own stretch of highway headed West, we pack with a sense of, YES. Yes in all caps. This is good. This is a worthy attempt at finding and sharing the best we have to offer. This is what we do. We sure hope you can join us. Sincerely, Linford and Karin OVER THE RHINE IN CONCERT ? JUKEBOX TO THE MOON TOUR ? 2009 WEST COAST LEG! (Note: when we play two nights in the same city, the shows will be substantially different?) November 2, Monday, Denver, CO, SOILED DOVE (Special guest, Katie Herzig) (SOLD OUT!) (Call venue to dbl check in case tix become available.) November 4, Wednesday, Salt Lake City, UT, THE STATE ROOM (Special guest, Katie Herzig) Our first concert in SLC in 8 long years! Pls help spread the word. Pass a few songs around. We?d love to make some new friends. Lookin? forward! (November 6, Friday, San Diego, CA: (CANCELLED.) (We were supposed to play Anthology but the venue cancelled because they had an opportunity to make more money hosting a private party. Our apologies for your inconvenience. Pls join us in Los Angeles!) November 7, Saturday, Los Angeles, CA, LARGO AT THE CORONET (Special guest, Katie Herzig) November 8, Sunday, Los Angeles, CA, LARGO AT THE CORONET (Special guest, Katie Herzig) *We have been looking for the perfect venue in Los Angeles for years. What can we say, this seated, intimate, ALL-AGES listening room has hosted a who?s who of songwriters: Randy Newman, Gillian Welch, Aimee Mann and many more. Performers as diverse as Jon Brion and Sarah Silverman have done lengthy residencies at Largo. There is a great family vibe in this place, and we look forward to sharing it with our extended musical family. Please join us and bring some of your favorite people with you. November 10, Tuesday, San Francisco, CA, GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL (Special guest, Katie Herzig) Another great room full of the ghosts of its burlesque past ? we always look forward to visiting San Fran. See you all soon! November 12, Thursday, Portland, OR, DOUG FIR (Special guest, Katie Herzig) November 13, Friday, Portland, OR, DOUG FIR (Special guest, Katie Herzig) (If Quentin Tarantino designed an ultra-sheik cocktail lounge in a log cabin? It?s going to be a sweaty, visceral coupla evenings! November 14, Saturday, Seattle, WA, THE TRIPLE DOOR (Special guest, Katie Herzig) November 15, Sunday, Seattle, WA, THE TRIPLE DOOR (Special guest, Katie Herzig) This venue has become another all-time fave. Not a bad seat in the house, amazing food and drink, makes for an unforgettable night out all around. Hope to see you!! *** Visit OvertheRhine.com for upcoming East Coast dates and much more! Pls share the above with the salt of the earth, distant buzzin? cousins, rooms full of students bent over their spiral bounds, recalcitrant music critics, girls in dark dresses with red lipstick and sad eyes. Fax a copy to your favorite radio station, or slip a page into an unsuspecting library book. The bearded painter or printmaker who comes out into the street after dark ? he spent the day stripped to the waist in the studio ? make sure he gets a copy along with his bourbon or espresso. Fold this letter into an origami menagerie, displayed proudly on an ink-stained wooden desk, words folded into paper wings. And finally, as always, line the braided wire birdcage with its meandering paragraphs and let the white doves crap all night long. From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Sat Nov 7 18:01:08 2009 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:01:08 -0800 Subject: [OTR Announce] OtR in Los Angeles Tonight! Message-ID: <602B048C-3C97-4D2D-AA3A-682019516C58@aol.com> Beautiful day for a show in LA! Just a reminder that Over the Rhine is playing Largo this evening (Sat), and tomorrow evening (Sun). It's been a wonderful tour so far. Hope you can join us. Also, we're lookin' forward to San Fran, Portland and Seattle... See OvertheRhine.com for much more! Bestest, OtR From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Tue Nov 24 14:22:59 2009 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:22:59 -0500 Subject: [OTR Announce] Happy Thanksgiving from Over the Rhine Message-ID: <8CC3B52AB393BE8-3100-ABC0@webmail-d081.sysops.aol.com> Hello extended musical family, Happy Thanksgiving! Might want to sit down, pour a glass of something good and get cozy. Over the Rhine arrived safely home from the West Coast. A wonderfully warm, SOLD OUT crowd awaited us in Denver at the Soiled Dove. Thanks to all of you for making us feel so welcome and for your generosity. We?re already lookin? forward to next time. (And special thanks to our many friends and workshop alumni from Santa Fe who attended!) We love The State Room in SLC and hope to return more often ? thanks to all of you who found us ? our biggest crowd ever in beautiful Salt Lake. And we?re still smiling about all the friendly, helpful girls in Temple Square. Largo in Los Angeles is a great little room ? there?s talk of us doing a Friday and Saturday next time. San Francisco ? you all were incredible. (Karin?s Swedish cousins were well-represented at this one.) And the tour wound down with a SOLD OUT show in Portland (they made 50 extra tix available Friday night and squeezed ?em in) and two SOLD OUT shows in Seattle at the beautiful Triple Door. I think (maybe for the first time ever?) the last night of the tour might have been our best. Jake and Mickey and Kenny continue to surprise us with their ability to dig deep musically. (And thanks to our crew: Colm, Nick, JP and Greer for covering all those miles with us.) Yes, we are thankful. We are blessed that you, the people who have found this music, have given these songs such a good life for so long. It?s been satisfying to watch it all grow, slow and steady, little by little, year after year like a well-planted tree. And so we say it again, Thank You. It?s a gray, misty day here on the farm. We planted six pine trees when we got back: two Norway Spruces, three white pines and a Canadian Hemlock. It gets sort of monochromatic out here after all the leaves come down, so it?s nice to see more splashes of evergreen in November. But it?s not all roses and champagne. Our house was built in the 1830?s, which means it?s an ongoing, lifelong project (like most of the things we choose). There?s a problem with one of our box gutters, and while we were gone one of our brick walls began absorbing too much water ? we think (?). So I had to open the trap door behind the couch and slide down into the crawl space and explore the underbelly of the pre-Civil war house. It?s a good thing I?m long and lean, because I can barely fit under there. I soon start feeling like Charles Bronson?s character in The Great Escape as I stare at the floor joists unable to roll over. Of course, there?s always the possibility of waking up a sluggish 5? black snake, but that thankfully did not happen, and I met no aggressive spiders or other surprises. But a couple of rooms in our lovely old house now smell like rotting cabbage and that remains something of a mystery. We have a carpenter coming out in the morning to help snoop around. We?ll see some family and a few friends this week, and then before we know it, Sunday will be here and Over the Rhine will be on the road once again. We will leave our unfinished business behind. We?ll all meet up in Philadelphia for a nightcap and then start the December leg of the tour, which promises to be a good ride. After we played in Denver, we rec?d a beautiful letter from a listener who said, ?I felt my soul being pieced back together while you played.? May that be a blessing for all of us: As the year winds down, may we feel our souls being pieced back together. Another listener at Seattle?s Sunday night show wrote and said, ?I?ve listened to Drunkard?s Prayer until it was worn to a polish like a string of rosary beads ? each song a prayer for the Desperate and Hopeful.? Thank you, thank you, thank you. Let?s find each other, and gather all of us in a room, the desperate, the hopeful, anyone who longs for their soul to be pieced back together: All are welcome here. We?ll be lookin? for you. Peace like a river, Linford and Karin of Over the Rhine ** OVER THE RHINE IN CONCERT (Pls note: for many of these concerts, tickets are available directly through OvertheRhine.com with very low service fees. And just an aside, there are $15 balcony seats available for our Taft Theatre Homecoming Concert.) November 30, Monday, Philadelphia, PA, WORLD CAF? (Special guest, Lucy Wainwright Roche) December 1, Tuesday, New York City, NY, HIGHLINE BALLROOM (Special guest, Lucy Wainwright Roche) December 2, Wednesday, Tarrytown, NY, TARRYTOWN MUSIC HALL (Co-Headline with Vienna Teng) December 4, Friday, Boston, MA, BERKLEE PERFORMANCE CENTER (Co-Headline with Vienna Teng) December 5, Saturday, Old Saybrook, CT, KATHARINE HEPBURN CULTURAL ARTS CENTER (Co-Headline with Vienna Teng) December 6, Sunday, Albany, NY, THE EGG (Co-Headline with Vienna Teng) December 8, Tuesday, Washington, DC, THE SYNAGOGUE (Co-Headline with Vienna Teng) MIDWEST: December 10, Thursday, Kent, OH, KENT STAGE (Special guest, Lucy Wainwright Roche) December 11, Friday, Ann Arbor, MI, THE ARK (Special guest, Lucy Wainwright Roche) December 12, Saturday, Chicago, IL, OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC (TWO SHOWS, 7pm and 10pm!) (Special guest, Lucy Wainwright Roche) December 19, Saturday, Cincinnati, OH, THE TAFT THEATRE, Over the Rhine?s annual holiday homecoming concert. Tickets on sale now at OvertheRhine.com, Taft Theatre Box Office, Ticketmaster etc! Since it?s still our 20th Anniversary, we?re going to settle in for the evening and play two extended sets of music. Hope you can join us! December 20, Sunday Soiree, Cincinnati, OH, ST. ELIZABETH?S IN NORWOOD: Karin and Linford would like to invite you to join Over the Rhine on Sunday, December 20th at 3pm at St. Elizabeth's, 1757 Mills Ave., Norwood, Ohio, 45212, for a holiday gathering featuring an acoustic performance, some spoken word, some conversation and of course some festive food and drink. (This gathering takes place the day after our Taft Theatre holiday homecoming concert, as we bask in the afterglow so to speak.) We have had so much fun with this the last four years in a row. It?s a great way to end our working year, surrounded by our extended musical family, sharing a little timeless holiday cheer. And if you?d like to have an OtR gift signed for someone, we?ll be at your service. See OvertheRhine.com for more details. (Price of admission entitles you to bring a guest OR your spouse and children.) Check out OvertheRhine.com for more info. OVER THE RHINE FLEA MARKET! And a reminder that we have the following readily available as you remind people later this year that you care about them with a little something special/unexpected. All these potential gifts are $20 or less and can be shipped directly to your loved one: We have two full-length Christmas/New Years/Wintertime CD?s: The Darkest Night of the Year (recently re-packaged in a beautiful digipak): $14.99 (Includes traditional carols and original songs all sepia-filtered through the vintage Over the Rhine lens.) Snow Angels: $14.99 (Includes new favorites All I Ever Get For Christmas is Blue, White Horse, New Redemption Song, We?re Gonna Pull Through, and many more?) The Trumpet Child Songbook: 126 pages of music and love, our first ever. $19.95 (Includes many previously unpublished photographs and an extended essay by Linford Detweiler, in which he unwraps early childhood memories and finds the inevitable crumb trail leading directly to this most recent collection of songs.) The Trumpet Child: $14.99 (The heart of our current repertoire, this collection continues to sell steadily. Contains new OtR classics I Don?t Wanna Waste Your Time, Trouble, I?m On A Roll, The Trumpet Child and many more. Share it with someone not yet familiar with OtR.) Live From Nowhere Volume Four: $19.99 (Over the Rhine comes alive! This double disc set documents the very special reunion concert with Ric Hordinski and Brian Kelley (and many friends) last December at The Taft, as we unpacked the first decade of our recordings. A great introduction to Over the Rhine?s formative years, and the excitement that surrounded those early days.) OHIO: Still only $14.99 (This double album was recently named one of the 50 best/most influential of the last decade by Paste Magazine. These original songs are a celebration of the music that Karin and Linford grew up with in small Ohio coal-mining towns: Rock-n-roll, Gospel, Country and Western, Bluegrass etc.) Drunkard?s Prayer: $14.99 (Possibly Over the Rhine?s most intimate record ? recorded in the living room of the Grey Ghost with upright basss, piano, acoustic guitar, cello etc. An enduring collection of songs that explore the hard-won victories and survival of a long-term relationship/lifelong fling.) Good Dog Bad Dog: $14.99 (Recently repackaged in a beautiful digipak, this is our little record that could. Contains OtR classics Latter Days, All I Need Is Everything, Etcetera Whatever, Jack?s Valentine and much more.) OtR on VINYL: $9.99 (Both Snow Angels and The Trumpet Child are available on vinyl for the young and hip, for the audiophile in your life, for the old-school collector that needs a portable record player spinning on the porch on a summer night, a string of bare lightbulbs glowing nearby, moths drunk with illumination.) Linford Detweiler?s Solo Piano recordings: $14.99 (These recordings continue to find their way to amazing places. Most recently, inner-city students in Chicago eat their lunches quietly while this music plays. And a mother plays the tunes often for her unborn baby who then falls asleep to it every evening after making his arrival on earth. If you need someone dreaming outloud at a piano near you, some unobtrusive companionship, a backdrop for the poems you?re writing or the paintings in progress that are wrestling you to the ground, consider these primitive collections of songs without words.) 20th Anniversary OtR Blend Coffee: $12.50 (Chuck roasted us a new blend for our 20th. We?ve been drinking it here on the farm. Wow. He will roast it fresh and ship it to you or directly to a friend. Dark, full-bodied, soft cinammon notes and an unexpected twist at the finish.) Live From Nowhere Volume Three: $14.99, OR FREE with any $30 purchase while they last. (Contains Live Recordings of Don?t Wait For Tom, I?m On A Roll, Nothing Is Innocent and much more?) And there is a smattering of frame-able posters, and OtR clothing to sort through. Think of it as a church basement rummage sale. We do appreciate your support. Please see OvertheRhine.com for all the goods. Please share this newsletter freely with friends and family close by or in a distant city. E-mail it, scribble a note on it and put it in a first-class envelope, copy a line or two on a humorous picture postcard, drop a page into the ocean and watch it sink slowly, the ink bleeding into blue, an inquisitive fish rising from below, one eye on you, one on her watery world. Post it on a bulletin board on campus at Berklee School of Music with the Berklee date highlighted, as if to say, There?s this band from Ohio, that?s gonna show you a thing or two, about changing the oil, in the engine of a song? (Hee hee. Oh yeah.) Tape it discreetly in a bathroom stall at a seminary in Kentucky, a little unexpected reading near the toilet. And finally, our favorite, we apologize that we went a little over four pages this time, all together now, Place a fresh copy on the floor of the gilded cage and let the white doves crap all night long. xoxo, Over the Rhine From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Sun Nov 29 15:21:31 2009 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:21:31 -0500 Subject: [OTR Announce] Over the Rhine Tour Kicks Off In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8CC3F48ACA5F623-3588-5113A@webmail-m040.sysops.aol.com> Greetings from the Cincinnati airport, We fly to Philly this afternoon and kick off our tour this Monday. Gather a group of dear ones. Select a fine hat and scarf for the evening. Share a meal and some stories together and then come on out and hear some tunes brim full of Midwestern soul. We hope to see you! OtR ** OVER THE RHINE in CONCERT November 30, Monday, Philadelphia, PA, WORLD CAF? (Special guest, Lucy Wainwright Roche) December 1, Tuesday, New York City, NY, HIGHLINE BALLROOM (Special guest, Lucy Wainwright Roche) December 2, Wednesday, Tarrytown, NY, TARRYTOWN MUSIC HALL (Co-Headline with Vienna Teng) December 4, Friday, Boston, MA, BERKLEE PERFORMANCE CENTER (Co-Headline with Vienna Teng) December 5, Saturday, Old Saybrook, CT, KATHARINE HEPBURN CULTURAL ARTS CENTER (Co-Headline with Vienna Teng) December 6, Sunday, Albany, NY, THE EGG (Co-Headline with Vienna Teng) December 8, Tuesday, Washington, DC, THE SYNAGOGUE (Co-Headline with Vienna Teng) MIDWEST: December 10, Thursday, Kent, OH, KENT STAGE (Special guest, Lucy Wainwright Roche) December 11, Friday, Ann Arbor, MI, THE ARK (Special guest, Lucy Wainwright Roche) December 12, Saturday, Chicago, IL, OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC (TWO SHOWS, 7pm and 10pm!) (Special guest, Lucy Wainwright Roche) December 19, Saturday, Cincinnati, OH, THE TAFT THEATRE, Over the Rhine?s annual holiday homecoming concert. Tickets on sale now at OvertheRhine.com, Taft Theatre Box Office, Ticketmaster etc! Since it?s still our 20th Anniversary, we?re going to settle in for the evening and play two extended sets of music. Hope you can join us! December 20, Sunday Soiree, Cincinnati, OH, ST. ELIZABETH?S IN NORWOOD: Karin and Linford would like to invite you to join Over the Rhine on Sunday, December 20th at 3pm at St. Elizabeth's, 1757 Mills Ave., Norwood, Ohio, 45212, for a holiday gathering featuring an acoustic performance, some spoken word, some conversation and of course some festive food and drink. (This gathering takes place the day after our Taft Theatre holiday homecoming concert, as we bask in the afterglow so to speak.) OvertheRhine.com for details and much more. ** Here are a couple of recent notes from the OtR mail bag. We are honored that our music can be a small connection to home for some. Let?s not forget the many who serve so far away during this holiday season? Peace, and may Godspeed you all safely home asap. L&K ** Linford and Karen, 11:03 PM, Kabul Afghanistan. First Thanksgiving away from my bride and many babies. I just finished my annual Thanksgiving tradition of an uninterrupted listen of "Darkest Night of the Year" to get me ready for this Advent season. I thank you for making a record so profound that it is a part of my life and that, for a moment, brought me home to my family again. Thank you for all you do and all you mean to me. Thanksgiving this year is thankfulness for the two of you, for your muse and for the chance to sit cross-legged on the floor with the woman I love and listen to you play for us at the church last year in Cincinnati. And most of all for a disc that changes my life for an hour or so every year. Many blessings to you both. With love, Mike Dahlstrom ** Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: FOUO Linford, I wanted to take a moment to thank you for the letters you post. I am serving a one-year tour in Afghanistan and my wife Mel, who is a big OTR fan and actually turned me on to your music, sends me your letters as they come out. What I like about them, and the reason I felt compelled to write you this note, is the sense of home they create. Your poetic descriptions of the Ohio countryside and your farm allow me to visualize the setting, and provide me with a little piece of Americana in the midst this harsh and violent environment in which I currently reside. So as I spend Thanksgiving in Kandahar, and think about all the things for which I am thankful: my good fortune to have been born in America, my family, my health; I will add to the list your music and the letters you write. They bring a little bit of home to a faraway place and I wanted to say thanks. Mel and I have seen you a couple of times at the Birchmere in DC, and I think Mel is planning to try to see you guys again at the Synagogue in a few weeks. Wish I could be there too. Take care, travel safe, have a good thanksgiving and fun Christmas! Cheers, dan COL Daniel L. Hampton Commander, Regional Support Team-South NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A) Kandahar Airfield From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Thu Dec 10 16:07:18 2009 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:07:18 -0500 Subject: [OTR Announce] The Home Stretch -- Over the Rhine in Concert In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8CC47F3E470F327-1568-9F5A@webmail-m086.sysops.aol.com> Hello friends, We are back in Ohio after a memorable string of shows in the Northeast. Thanks to all of you who found us for your warmth, support, and contagious enthusiasm. Thanks to all of you for giving our songs a life. It was an honor and privilege to peform at such beautiful venues including our first ever show at Berklee School of Music, as well as the archictectural wonder known as The Egg in Albany, the beautiful music hall in Tarrytown, the Katherine Hepburn in Old Saybrook, the stunning Synagogue in DC to name a few... It's cold and wintry now back in the Midwest. If you haven't already made plans, please do come find us in Kent tonight, Ann Arbor friday, and/or Chicago (two shows) this Saturday. We hope to see you, and as you come in out of the cold, hopefully you'll find that warm music does the soul an immense amount of good at this time of year. We know one thing for sure: When the nights get long and dark, what we need is music. Here are a few previews for your perusal: CLEVELAND SCENE MAGAZINE Preview for tonight's (12/10/09) OtR concert at Kent Stage -- Kent, Ohio Over the Rhine have an uncanny way with emotion. They?re also pretty good at choosing the most appropriate sonic backdrop for delivery. The band?s tendency toward bleaker psychic explorations has largely disappeared over the past few albums, but it recently added jazzy Americana to its mix. Bluesy cabaret swagger plays alongside gospel nouveau and pop balladry, as Karin Bergquist channels a classier era of powerful female singers. If anything, her voice sounds more natural in this setting than it does in the band?s indie-pop. The immediacy of the music mingles well with the more upbeat moods. In the Live From Nowhere series, Over the Rhine couple this new stylistic permutation with classics from their catalog. The band?s ongoing ability to engage with its music and audience manages to shed new light on everything it?s done to this point. Over the Rhine perform at Kent Stage (175 E. Main St., Kent, 330.677.5005) at 8 p.m. Tickets: $22. ? Nicholas Hall ** CONCENTRATE Preview for OtR's Friday night (12/11/09) concert at The Ark, Ann Arbor, Michigan Cincinnati's dream pop duo is kinda the perfect band for Ann Arbor. Literate, genre skipping and melancholy, Over The Rhine fall into the company of Belle And Sebastian or Cowboy Junkies, going so far as to play as 'adjuncts' for Margot Timmon's mellower-than-mellow band. They're also tres popular in The Deuce, with shows selling out before you can say, "Go Blue." Dog lovers, heartbreaking country connoisseurs, and gospel-flecked folk rockers, they're the type of band that might have showed up on the 4AD label many moons ago. Over The Rhine's impressionistic lyrics sigh more than soar and Karin Bergquist's lovely whiskey vocals have the kind of burnished poignancy that has earned them a devoted following. Go. Swoon. Tickets are $25. The ark is at 316 S Main in downtown Ann Arbor. ** PREVIEW for OtR's Friday night (12/11/09) concerts at Old Town School of Folk Music (Two shows: 7pm/10pm) The core of Over The Rhine lies in the husband and wife team of Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist whose beautiful pop songs unfold in an earthy and impassioned way. Their live shows are always significant events that have a transcendent quality. "Over the Rhine's double album OHIO is a deeply moving, maddening, and redemptive work of art, and necessary, ambitious pop..." ALL MUSIC GUIDE Special guest for all of the above!: Lucy Wainwright Roche... The daughter of Loudon Wainwright III and Suzzy Roche, Lucy Roche has inherited all of that talent and much more. Her songwriting is unique and her voice is "clear as a bell" according to the New York Times. And don't forget about our homecoming Cincinnati concert on December 19, and the Christmas party that we host every year on Sunday, December 20. More details at OvertheRhine.com. Hope you can join us! Again, we are grateful to all of you. xoxo, Over the Rhine From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Thu Dec 10 16:10:16 2009 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:10:16 -0500 Subject: [OTR Announce] The Home Stretch -- Over the Rhine in Concert Message-ID: <8CC47F44E60B108-1568-A03A@webmail-m086.sysops.aol.com> Hello friends, We are back in Ohio after a memorable string of shows in the Northeast. Thanks to all of you who found us for your warmth, support, and contagious enthusiasm. Thanks to all of you for giving our songs a life. It was an honor and privilege to peform at such beautiful venues including our first ever show at Berklee School of Music, as well as the archictectural wonder known as The Egg in Albany, the beautiful music hall in Tarrytown, the Katherine Hepburn in Old Saybrook, the stunning Synagogue in DC to name a few... It's cold and wintry now back in the Midwest. If you haven't already made plans, please do come find us in Kent tonight, Ann Arbor friday, and/or Chicago (two shows) this Saturday. We hope to see you, and as you come in out of the cold, hopefully you'll find that warm music does the soul an immense amount of good at this time of year. We know one thing for sure: When the nights get long and dark, what we need is music. Here are a few previews for your perusal: CLEVELAND SCENE MAGAZINE Preview for tonight's (12/10/09) OtR concert at Kent Stage -- Kent, Ohio Over the Rhine have an uncanny way with emotion. They?re also pretty good at choosing the most appropriate sonic backdrop for delivery. The band?s tendency toward bleaker psychic explorations has largely disappeared over the past few albums, but it recently added jazzy Americana to its mix. Bluesy cabaret swagger plays alongside gospel nouveau and pop balladry, as Karin Bergquist channels a classier era of powerful female singers. If anything, her voice sounds more natural in this setting than it does in the band?s indie-pop. The immediacy of the music mingles well with the more upbeat moods. In the Live From Nowhere series, Over the Rhine couple this new stylistic permutation with classics from their catalog. The band?s ongoing ability to engage with its music and audience manages to shed new light on everything it?s done to this point. Over the Rhine perform at Kent Stage (175 E. Main St., Kent, 330.677.5005) at 8 p.m. Tickets: $22. ? Nicholas Hall ** CONCENTRATE Preview for OtR's Friday night (12/11/09) concert at The Ark, Ann Arbor, Michigan Cincinnati's dream pop duo is kinda the perfect band for Ann Arbor. Literate, genre skipping and melancholy, Over The Rhine fall into the company of Belle And Sebastian or Cowboy Junkies, going so far as to play as 'adjuncts' for Margot Timmon's mellower-than-mellow band. They're also tres popular in The Deuce, with shows selling out before you can say, "Go Blue." Dog lovers, heartbreaking country connoisseurs, and gospel-flecked folk rockers, they're the type of band that might have showed up on the 4AD label many moons ago. Over The Rhine's impressionistic lyrics sigh more than soar and Karin Bergquist's lovely whiskey vocals have the kind of burnished poignancy that has earned them a devoted following. Go. Swoon. Tickets are $25. The ark is at 316 S Main in downtown Ann Arbor. ** PREVIEW for OtR's Friday night (12/11/09) concerts at Old Town School of Folk Music (Two shows: 7pm/10pm) The core of Over The Rhine lies in the husband and wife team of Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist whose beautiful pop songs unfold in an earthy and impassioned way. Their live shows are always significant events that have a transcendent quality. "Over the Rhine's double album OHIO is a deeply moving, maddening, and redemptive work of art, and necessary, ambitious pop..." ALL MUSIC GUIDE Special guest for all of the above!: Lucy Wainwright Roche... The daughter of Loudon Wainwright III and Suzzy Roche, Lucy Roche has inherited all of that talent and much more. Her songwriting is unique and her voice is "clear as a bell" according to the New York Times. And don't forget about our homecoming Cincinnati concert on December 19, and the Christmas party that we host every year on Sunday, December 20. More details at OvertheRhine.com. Hope you can join us! Again, we are grateful to all of you. xoxo, Over the Rhine