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Over The Rhine

There’s a red Stratocaster knock-off hanging above the stage at The Starry Plough pub in Berkeley...  read more

Over the Rhine Announces New Album

Over the Rhine has announced that their upcoming full-length, to be released on Virgin/Back Porch Records, will be titled Drunkard's Prayer. The band has been sketching and writing off and on for much of the year. The recording process began on election day, and mixing was completed on Thanksgiving Eve. The self-described “relaxed record” was recorded at home in the house the band refers to as the "Grey Ghost." Drunkard's Prayer is set to be released Mar. 29, 2005. The band will also embark on a short tour in December. Drunkard's Prayer Track Listing 1. I Want You To Be...  read more

20 Signs of Life From 2003

In the liner notes accompanying Over the Rhine’s gloriously self-indulgent double-disc, OHIO, co-founder Linford Detweiler, writes, “We grew up in small coal mining towns in the Ohio Valley, listening to music that could have only been unearthed in America: Southern Gospel, Country Western and Rock ’n’ Roll. This music fertilized the soil of our early lives. We sit down at the upright piano these days with dirt under our fingernails.” And I suppose that’s what I love about this album. The songs feel gritty and real, unpolished and perfect. Just like people. All the artifice (both musical and emotional) has...  read more