From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Wed Jan 18 16:18:07 2012 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:18:07 -0500 (EST) Subject: [OTR Announce] Happy 2012 From Over the Rhine Message-ID: Hello again, Well, 2012 has fully arrived; a new year circled the earth and found each of us, and here we are again, well on our way, ready or not, moving into what lies ahead. The turning of the year has always felt like a sacred moment to me. Before I was married, I would often borrow my parents? little vintage camper, parked by a creek off the beaten path in Northeast Ohio. I would spend New Year?s eve walking alone after dark along a quiet road, and for some reason it often snowed, and it was like walking between the lines of a Robert Frost poem. And I would sit at the little table in the camper and scribble down notes by the light of a small lamp, intuitively giving myself little spiritual exercises in which I would try to re-dream the past and remember the future. After our Christmas tour wound down this past December (thank you, for so many memorable nights of shared music, and for the many little notes and gifts and encouraging words) Karin and I made our way back to Nowhere Farm for some much needed recovery time. In my post-tour haze the next morning, I picked out a lovely Norway spruce at a neighbor?s farm that, once upright in our pre-Civil War farm house, proved to be about two feet too tall. So it required some creative sawing and trimming in the dining room, but we mostly managed to laugh and keep the Chrismas cussin? to a mininum. And decked out with many homemade ornaments made by young nephews and nieces, not to mention trivets that Karin and I have collected in our years of traveling together, it was indeed a festive tree in spite of the shave and haircut. A big tree for a big year. The holidays came and went and last week Karin and I started our working year by walking in our bare feet along the gulf coast of Florida at the 30a Songwriter?s festival. It was chilly in the shade but bright and warm in the sun, and while it was snowing back at the farm, Karin found herself eating Apalachicola Bay oysters outdoors for breakfast, and WOW were they tasty, and salty, and briny, and full of the infinite wonder of the sea. And we were reminded that the vocation of songwriting is a long and winding road, a road that often winds uphill, but it?s a vocation that nonetheless affords occasional unforgettable views and surprises. And this week (big news) another Great Speckled Dog (in miniature) arrived at Nowhere Farm: we have taken on a blue merle Great Dane puppy called Miss Minnie Pearl ? our Pearl Merle Girl. Shakey and Porter are a little unsure of whether she?s just visiting or staying, but sooner or later it will sink in that she is indeed their little sis. And then she will gradually become their BIG sis. So we?re trying not to die from all the cuteness, and I?m sure we?ll post some pictures from time to time. Well Karin and I have been thinking about recording more music this year, so much more on that soon. (Feel like making another record or two?) But in the meanwhile, we need to try out a few of the new songs at a few of our favorite venues that we were unable to visit in 2011. We need to break the songs down to their simplest fundamentals and see how they fly. And revisit a few old friends as well. So without further ado, we thought we?d ask you out on a date or two. Care to dance? Peace like a river, love like an ocean, Linford and Karin OVER THE RHINE FEBRUARY 2012 TOUR DATES Wednesday, February 1, Annapolis, MD, Ram?s Head Tavern: An acoustic evening with Over the Rhine Thursday, February 2, Frederick, MD, Weinberg Center For The Arts: An acoustic evening with Over the Rhine Saturday, February. 18, Dallas, TX, The Granada Theatre Sunday, February 19, Austin, TX, The Cactus Caf? Saturday, February 25, St. Joseph, MN, College of St. Benedict More dates will be announced soon ? stay tuned at overtherhine.com for all the latest. Follow us on twitter, and chk the Over the Rhine Facebook page for daily updates. As for your tender heart, this world?s gonna break it wide open; it ain?t gonna be pretty, but you?re not alone. From otrannounce at overtherhine.com Tue Feb 14 16:45:14 2012 From: otrannounce at overtherhine.com (Announcement list for the band Over The Rhine) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:45:14 -0500 (EST) Subject: [OTR Announce] Happy Valentine's Day from Over the Rhine Message-ID: Hello young lovers wherever you are, Hello not-so-young lovers with hearts fixed on the prize of growing older together, one day at a time, come what may, Hello to those flying solo, learning to love just the feel of being human, Hello to those head over heels in a tangle of a wrecked bed, blurring ego boundaries with an eager protagonist, drunk on it, Hello to those who could never live with another human being and are okay with that knowledge (Fran Lebowitz), Hello to those married with young children, running their domestic marathon, Hello to those in love with the sky only, the very breathable air, restlessly content with this earthly mix of sometimes joy, sometimes longing, sometimes loneliness, sometimes surprising laughter, Hello to those in love with the whole human predicament, Hello to the broke, the well-heeled, the lucky, the lost, the quiet, the gifted, the empty-handed, the adopted, the beginners, the almost finished, the starting over, the music makers, and those with the gift of hearing and receiving the music, Hello. Happy St. Valentine?s Day to you all. (C?mon St. Valentine, how ?bout a high five?) Just wanted to pass along a few dates so you could put a few xoxo?s on the 2012 calendar. Karin and I are taking our (infamous) love songs (some new, some old, some works in progress) all the way to Texas this weekend, and then Minnesota the following weekend. Anxious to make a little hopefully lovely ruckus with you nearby. And then as the weather begins to lean toward Spring, we?ve earmarked weekends here and there to slip back out to California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana and points beyond. Mostly short trips, just long enough to keep the gears oiled, as we will be recording as well. Anyway, this is a Want Ad: Fellow lovers of life needed to fill a few velvet seats, hum along, laugh at our off-kilter stage banter, grin at our jokes, cheer for the piano with the broken heart. Tickets available! OvertheRhine.com for more details. Peace like a river, Love like an ocean, Linford & Karin +++OVER THE RHINE IN CONCERT Saturday, February 18, The Granada Theatre, Dallas, TX, with very special guest Doug Burr Sunday, February 19, The Cactus Caf?, Austin, TX, TWO SHOWS: 7pm and 10pm, An acoustic evening with Over the Rhine Saturday, February 25, College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, MN, An acoustic evening with Over the Rhine Good Friday, April 6, Marin, CA, More info coming soon! Saturday, April 7, Kuumbwa, Santa Cruz, CA Thursday, April 12, The Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, Ponte Vedra, FL, with very special guest Lucy Wainwright Roche Friday, April 13, The Lyric Theater, Stuart, FL, with very special guest Lucy Wainwright Roche Saturday, April 14, Orlando, FL, More info coming soon!, with very special guest Lucy Wainwright Roche Sunday, April 15, David A Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa, FL, with very special guest Lucy Wainwright Roche Friday, April 27, Eddies Attic, Decatur, GA, An acoustic evening with Over the Rhine Saturday, April 28, Red Clay Theatre, Duluth, GA, An acoustic evening with Over the Rhine Friday and Saturday, May 4 and 5, SPACE, Evanston, IL, An acoustic evening with Over the Rhine Saturday, May 19, River Roots Music & Folk Art Festival, Madison, IN AND more to come? Again, chk out OvertheRhine.com, the Over the Rhine facebook page, or follow @overtherhine on twitter for updates. +++ As for your tender heart, this world?s gonna rip it wide open. It ain?t gonna be pretty, but you?re not alone? xo.