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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; ">Hello friends,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; ">Just heading out the door for Mama B’s birthday party at the
nursing home. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; ">81 years old. Did I just say 81?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; ">Well, we’ll get the party started with some Indian food, and
Karin ordered some sort of fabulous cake involving multiple layers of chocolate
ecstasy. We’ll pass it out to whoever happens to roll by. Who knows what the
day will hold.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; ">I’ll be brief – hard for me:</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; ">We have two concerts coming up this weekend in
Dayton, Ohio, at a funky old listening room we’ve been playing in forever called
Canal Street Tavern. Hope you can join us this Saturday and/or Sunday, Feb 16
& 17! Monday is a holiday, so we won’t feel too bad about letting the night
unfold as we try out many of our new songs and pull a few familiar favorites
out of the hat. Singer songwriter (and actor!) Kim Taylor, will kick things
off. (Kim contributed the song Days Like This to The Long Surrender, and we’re
big fans of her work. And she’ll have pre-release copies of her brand new
record, Love Is A Dog with her. It’s a wonderful project.)</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-family: arial; text-indent: -0.25in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"> </font></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-family: arial; text-indent: -0.25in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">March is all about recording for us. Thanks so
much to all of you who have pitched in advance to help make these records! And
note, if you’re attending the concert here at the farm on Memorial Day Wknd,
look for a letter in your in box early next week with more details!</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-family: arial; text-indent: -0.25in; "><br>
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-family: arial; text-indent: -0.25in; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"> </font>In April, we’re going to take a little horseshoe
swing through the Southeast and back up the coast a ways for a change of
scenery and a little springtime adventure. Chk out overtherhine.com for ticket
links and more info. We hav<font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">e concerts in</font>:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 0.25in; "><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 0.25in; "><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 0.25in; ">4/5 Franklin, TN</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 0.25in; ">4/6 Birmingham, AL</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 0.25in; ">4/8 Athens, GA</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 0.25in; ">4/9 Asheville, NC</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 0.25in; ">4/10 Raleigh, NC</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 0.25in; ">4/12 Charlottesville, VA</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 0.25in; ">4/13 Annapolis, MD</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 0.25in; ">4/14 Ephrata, PA</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 0.25in; "><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 0.25in; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">We’ll be joined on the above
(except for Asheville) by Ben Sollee! Hope to see you</span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">.</font> Again, overtherhine.com
for more.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 0.25in; "><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; ">Finally, <span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier">What a gift to wake up to this letter this morning: beautiful, honest,
affirming, painful, hopeful - embodying so much of what we hope our songs live
up to. Had to (with the writer's permission) share. Hope to see many of you
this wknd in Dayton. Peace, LJD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Courier"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier">+++<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier">Linford and Karin:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier">Hi. We haven’t met, though you’ve graciously allowed me to follow you
on Facebook for a few years. I’ve been an OTR fan for about 10 years now, introduced
to you via “Go Down Easy” which was featured on the Love & Sex soundtrack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier">Since then, I’ve seen you every time you’ve come to Dayton from 2006
on; sometimes attending alone, sometimes with a friend or date. Every time it’s
been a transformative experience. While I loved seeing the band in the stately
and beautiful Victoria, for me, Canal St with its inconveniently placed wooden pillars,
ass-blistering church seats and low, comfy ceiling is the best place to see
you: somewhere close, intimate, and made for the truths you and Karin bravely
share from the stage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier">I’m sure you get a ton of these sorts of requests, so please forgive
me sending one more. I’ll be attending the Saturday, Feb 16 Canal St Tavern
show and wondered if you’d consider putting “Go Down Easy” on the playlist. It
holds <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier">special meaning to me, for a number of reasons. When I first heard it,
my marriage was disintegrating slowly, and the music and singing woke something
in me, something I didn’t even know was there (or thought had died years ago).
It gave me hope that, sometime in the future, I’d be able to give and receive
love again, that there’d be someone I was passionate about and was passionate
for me <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier">in return. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier">Since first hearing it, I’ve gone through a crapload of changes. My
marriage ended. I’ve experienced some life-altering heartbreak, two job
layoffs, watched my daughters turn into capable, amazing young women…and that
song has remained a constant in my life, a ghostly yet substantial articulation
of yearning, love, hope and pain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier">I’ll be attending the Feb 16th show with a woman I met last year, one
that I fell nearly instantly for but have spent 12 months getting to know,
figuring out <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier">how to be the best man for her and myself, and working through the
baggage two 40-something folks bring to romance. If you would play “Go Down
Easy,” we’d be <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier">so grateful and it would be a memory and experience I’m certain we’d
return to many times in the years to come. This is _not_ a request for a
shout-out from <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier">y’all on stage – just that you might consider throwing the song into
the set list. I’ve never seen you perform it live, and keep hoping to see you
do so at one of the shows I attend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier">Regardless of the songs played Saturday night, you and Karin have my
thanks and support for the life of music, artistry and seeking you share with
the world. We’re better off for the hard work you do and the love and pain and
questions you give us through music.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier">Respectfully yours,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Courier"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier">----------------<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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