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  Nov 24, 11:46 AM

  Happy Thanksgiving! Might want to sit down, pour a glass of something good, and get cozy...

  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 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 special 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 to piece their soul 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 CAFÉ (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 its 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
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  Aug 14, 01:42 PM

  Hello extended musical family

  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.)
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  Jul 15, 08:25 AM

  Hello friends and extended musical family

   

  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 withbikini.

   

  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 haveforgotten 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, redclover, 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.

   

  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 risqué, try reading the lyrics to Afternoon Delight sometime, let alone singing it with a straight face. We'll have tosee 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 holding 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 unsignedCD's still remain, because we realized we missed a box. Also available digitally.)

   

  Volume Three was all about The Trumpet Child, but includes some performances from the AniDiFranco 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 RicHordinski 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 copy 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 beforereleased. 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 few 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 etcetc. (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.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   
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  Nov 27 2008, 03:58 PM

  Happy Thanksgiving from sunny Southern Ohio [a letter from Linford]

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  Hello friends,

   

  Happy Thanksgiving from sunny Southern Ohio. I tried writing this on the porch swing, but it’s just a little too chilly around the edges. This is our last day on the farm before Over the Rhine’s Snow Angels Tour 2008 commences on the West Coast. We had four beautiful deer grazing in the front yard this morning. The two frisky yearlings were trying to get the older ones to play, but they were too watchful. The bluejays were curious. An illuminated cardinal absorbed and reflected sunlight from the top of a bare maple, an anonymous beacon, the tip of God’s paintbrush.

   

  There are little surprises from time to time, but things get a little bleak, monochromatic out here when all the leaves come down in the fall. But then again, it’s revealing to see the structure of things underneath, the dark skeletal silhouettes of familiar trees, bare limbs veined against billowing skies.

   

  The land rests in the winter after the harvest, and we come here to our little farm to rest.

   

  But come tomorrow morning we’ll be flying to the city of Seattle and points beyond, and we love to feel that energy too. Someone said that the story of the peaceable Kingdom of God starts in a garden, and ends in a city. We’ve come to appreciate and need both.

   

  I know of no better time of year to convene in warmly lit rooms for real music. There’s something about bundling in out of the cold and the dark of these late Fall evenings, and gathering together with friends and strangers alike for the simple grace of a song sung from the heart. 

   

  What we really need this time of year is music.

   

  We are thankful that we’ve been given the privelege of making music for coming right up on 20 years now. We’re glad we’ve found each other. We couldn’t have done it without the generous spirit of so many of you  – some of you found the music in recent years, some of you found it years ago. Regardless we hope to see many of your faces once again in the coming weeks. Let’s lift a glass of something good together.

   

  Please share this info freely with family and friends. Details (and much more) available at OvertheRhine.com.

   

  Lookin’ forward,

   

  Linford and Karin and the band and crew

   

  OVER THE RHINE SNOW ANGELS TOUR 2008

   

  WEST COAST LEG:

  (With Special Guest Jim Bianco)

   

  (SOLD OUT) Saturday, November  29, Seattle, WA, THE TRIPLE DOOR

  (SOLD OUT) Sunday, November 30, Seattle, WA, THE TRIPLE DOOR

   

  (We love this venue, and we always look forward to visiting Seattle, but these shows have been sold out now for weeks. Easy road trip anyone? Please consider joining us in Portland at the beautiful Aladdin Theater, or in Klamath Falls at the beautiful Ross Ragland Theater. We don’t wanna miss you.)

   

  Monday, December 1, Portland, OR, ALADDIN THEATER

  Tuesday, December 2, Klamath Falls, OR, ROSS RAGLAND THEATER

   

  Thursday, December 4, San Francisco, CA, SLIM’S (***Please note the venue change. This is a full-circle night for us as we played Slim’s on our first ever national tour opening for Adrian Belew. We’ll catch The Fillmore some other time. Please spread the word, and we hope to see you for what promises to be a cathartic, electric evening.)

   

  (Friday, December 5: Happy Birthday Juicy!)

   

  Saturday, December 6, Los Angeles, CA, TROUBADOUR (Our first appearance at this storied club once frequented by Tom Waits and so many others. Sure hope you and yours can join us.)

   

  (Sunday, December 7, Pasadena, CA, Private show.)

  +++

   

  A FEW MIDWESTERN DATES:

  (With Special Guest Jim Bianco)

   

  Friday, December 12, Louisville, KY, BOMHARD THEATER (We are excited to return to this lovely venue in Louisville, one of our new favorites. Please note we will also be performing this same Friday on WFPK for their “Live Lunch” at noon. Join us if you can or tune in online at WFPK.org.)

   

  Saturday, December 13, Chicago, IL, DOUBLE DOOR (Happy Birthday Karin! Another evening that promises to be highly energized as we all squeeze in out of the cold of one of Chicago’s great neighborhoods. Come early and do some exploring or get some shopping done. And get your tix soon: they are going fast. Lookin’ forward!)

   

  +++

   

  And finally:

   

  WHAT A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF HEARTACHE

  A SPECIAL TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

  TWO NIGHTS. TWO DECADES. TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SHOWS.

   

  Friday, December 19, Cincinnati, OH, THE TAFT THEATER (Original bandmembers Ric Hordinski and Brian Kelley (along with Jake Bradley, Mickey Grimm, Kenny Hutson, Julie Lee, Kim Taylor, and Paul Patterson) join us as we revisit quintessential OtR songs from  the first decade of the band’s existence. We’ll explore/explode songs from Till We Have Faces, Patience, Eve, Good Dog Bad Dog and The Darkest Night of the Year (and more). We’ve been rehearsing with Ric and Brian, and this is shaping up to be a very special night. If you enjoyed the band back in the early days at Sudsy Malone’s and far beyond, this is a not-to-be-missed evening.)

   

  Saturday, December 20, Cincinnati, OH, THE TAFT THEATER (Night two finds us along with Jake Bradley, Mickey Grimm, Kenny Hutson, Julie Lee, Kim Taylor and Nick Radina, rolling out favorites from Films For Radio, OHIO, Drunkard’s Prayer, The Trumpet Child, Snow Angels (and more). These annual holiday shows are something we look forward to all year, and this year promises to be memorable. Hope to see you!)

   

  Sunday, December 21, Norwood, OH, ST. ELIZABETH’S –  Over the Rhine’s Sunday Soiree: Join us in a ragged cathedral for festive food and drink, relaxed conversation and careening acoustic tunes as we celebrate the end of our working year together with our extended musical family (you). And bring the whole family. (Tix available at OvertheRhine.com)
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  Jun 23 2008, 07:39 PM

  [a note from Karin] July Shows ... Bang, Rat tat tat BOOM!, Tour Diary June 23, 2008

  Hey folks,
  I know it's been a long ol' time since I've written here. Thanks for your patience and sorry about that.

  
  

  And my lovely camera died so no pictures until I get the dern thing attended to.
  Rats.

  
  

  But for now, I just want to post a quick note.

  
  

  We're excited to let you all know that we will be joined for the next handful of shows by rock-god, guitar-slinging, pedal steel crying (meeeeow), Dobro slidin' action figure, and all around sweet guy Kenny Hutson. (Kenny played the Ohio concert at National City Pavilion -- just in case you were there.)

  
  

  Hope you can join us. We're gonna have a little fun.
  See you out there...
  k
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  May 17 2008, 06:57 PM

  "OHIO: In Concert" - One Week From Tonight (and counting)...

  

  "OHIO: In Concert" - One Week from Tonight...

  CINCINNATI, OH - Hometown favorites Over the Rhine have been chosen to christen Cincinnati's new National City Pavilion on Saturday, May 24th with a very special, one-time performance of their critically-acclaimed double album, "OHIO".
  
  Released in 2003, "OHIO" was awarded five out of five stars by Paste magazine and chosen as the 1 album of the year by WNKU listeners. Pop Matters and others called OHIO a masterpiece, and All Music Guide described it as "a cry from the ravaged heartland, and necessary, ambitious pop music." The album received BBC airplay and showed up on various top ten lists around the world.
  
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  Reserved tickets $45.00, $35.00 & $25.00 are on sale at all Ticketmaster outlets including select Kroger stores.
  
  Charge by phone in Cincinnati at (513) 562-4949, in Dayton at (937) 228-2323, in Columbus at (614) 431-3600, in Lexington at (859) 281-6644 and in Louisville at (502) 361-3100, order on-line at NationalCityPavilion. com and Ticketmaster. com.
  
  All tickets include parking and are subject to applicable service charges. Dates, times and artists are subject to change without notice. All events rain or shine.
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  Apr 29 2008, 07:46 PM

  A Note For All Who Pre-Ordered Live From Nowhere Volume Three

  Dear listener,

  Hello, this is Linford from Over the Rhine. Thanks for pre-ordering your copy of Live From Nowhere Volume Three. (Hard to believe we're up to Volume Three already.) We do appreciate the support immensely. As my wife and partner in crime, Karin, still likes to say, Without you, we'd be homeless. It's true.

   

  As you may have heard, we had a plan. We were going to finish our tour with Ani DiFranco mid-March of this year, return home, tie a bow on the LFN3 project, and send it off to the manufacturer so that we could ship them all out in April.

   

  But then I got the call that no traveling musican ever wants to get on the road. My father passed away unexpectedly on March 15th, and I must admit I was completely caught off guard by this bit of unfortunate news. Other than Karin, my father was the character who had figured most prominently in my life. He was the one who brought home the upright piano and first recorded my childhood compositions. He was the one who discovered so much of the music that influenced me as a child. He was the one who wasn't afraid to ask the big questions, and ask them often. I could go on.

   

  But after driving through the night from Birmingham to return home, there was my family asking me to write my father's obituary.

   

  There has been an incredible series of events since then, but it's been a difficult chapter, a chapter for which I've had no rehearsal. I've started to write about it on various occasions so that I could bring everyone up to date, but I guess I'm not able to do that just yet. I take a good run at it, but I end up wandering outside after a few paragraphs to sit on the porch swing for awhile.

   

  Dovetailing with the above was a health issue that became acute for Karin, which required surgery. So we decided to postpone some dates, and we were both in recovery for the most part for several weeks. Lying low at home, trying to heal up. I went for many a walk through the surrounding fields. Sometimes Elroy (our Great Dane) would follow along to try to keep my spirits up, although he seldom left the foot of Karin's bed for her first several days of healing.

   

  We played our first shows this past weekend at a favorite little venue here in Ohio, and it felt good and right to begin making music again together. But other than that, we haven't been able to get a whole heckuva lot done.

   

  So, we're going to need a little grace from you. Realistically, it's probably going to be late June before we get this limited edition CD out the door. The good news: we're going to work very hard to give all of you who pre-ordered some extra, free downloadable music and conversation that will hopefully make your wait worthwhile.

   

  Again, thanks for pre-ordering, and please forgive the delay. As John Lennon once said, Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans. We'll get there.

   

  Peace,

  Linford and Karin

   

  ps And of course, if the above doesn't work, we'll happily pass along a refund.