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The Long Surrender (Exclusive Version)

Over the Rhine

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Ohio’s Over the Rhine have dwindled down to primarily the husband-wife duo of Linford Detweiler and Karin Berquist. With producer Joe Henry carefully sculpting atmospheres, the duo go about crafting songs that aim for the heart and the ether. It’s mostly the effect of Berquist’s classically trained vocals that can skitter close to an ache and then take flight like a butterfly. “The Laugh of Recognition” has a sense of longing burning underneath its easeful gait. Elsewhere, the darkness swells over tunes that turn to a disturbing quiet to make their points. “Sharpest Blade” is pure noir. “Undamned,” with its upright bass stalking the sparse guitar piece and its guest vocals from Lucinda Williams, has the feel of a nightclub scene coming apart as the daylight exposes the hidden blemishes. “Infamous Love Songs” has a grand sense of theater with the perfect vocal and piano flourishes. “Only God Can Save Us Now” is a simple, straightforward folk song. “Oh Yeah By the Way” is a sweet duet. This Exclusive Version includes a gorgeous take of “Favorite Time of Light.”

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If you could only only 2 CDs: Good Dog Bad Dog & The Long Surrender

I've been a fan of OtR for a very long time. Their Christmas concert has become a family tradition and of late the summer Coney Island concert too. One of the things I love about the band is that they've never made the same album twice. It would be easy for Karin and Linford to remake "Ohio" or "Trumpet Child"; many bands have given in to that kind of temptation. But the band continues to grow, to experiment, and to branch out. It has disappointed some fans perhaps but without that spirit to grow "The Long Surrender" would never have happened.

"The Laugh of Recognition" and "Days Like This" are obvious choices for single releases. They showcase Karin's soaring voice and literate lyrics. But without question my favorite is "Only God Can Save Us Now". I think no one but Karin could write a song about the people she met in a nursing home when she visited her mother and only Karin could make that song hopeful despite it all. Like Karin, all my favorite people are broken, and I'd have it no other way.

In the past I introduced people to my favorite band by giving them "Good Dog Bad Dog" but from now on it will be this album. What Karin and Linford, Joe Henry, and a thousand or more good friends have created is a wonder to behold.

Goodness!

God...this is good!
So, I played it again.
and then turned it UP. LOUD
All kinds of surprises lurking around the edges!
Played it some more...lots of times!
a gorgeous batch of songs this is!
Full of life and honesty...
real, heartfelt, poetic
beautifully crafted
goodness.

The Extraordinary Ordinary

I've been following Over The Rhine since age 18 (I'm almost 34), along with my wife, who I met and have been with since age 18. She had a few years on me, growing up in Cincinnati, sneaking into Over The Rhine shows in Cincinnati at age 15 when they were 18 or 21 and over shows. She and I have grown up with Karin and Linford, and we are all the better for it. I wish that they knew they are all the better for it too. That long, Linford-esque letter to Karin and Linford is coming soon and is long overdue.

Coney Island, The Dugout, The Canal Street Tavern, The Taft Theater, The Troubadour, just a few of the venues we've been gifted by seeing them perform at. Someday they will serenade us in our living room here in Over The Rhine Cincinnati, I just know it.

This album is what I call the extraordinary ordinary. Just as my wife and I have grown and changed and improved, pushed and pulled and relented since Over The Rhine's last album, so too have they, and this album reflects that at its very core and essence. We had the pleasure of hearing it live at their 2010 Winter show at The Taft Theater in Over The Rhine, Cincinnati. I have been counting down for this album release. We're hoping to stop by Joseph-Beth tomorrow evening to be a part of their soiree of music and mojo. It hasn't been difficult to turn a large number of our friends onto Karin and Linford's music. Why would it be?!

So, about the extraordinary ordinary. It's simply what I aspire to as a human being. To live the most extraordinary ordinary life imaginable, meaning finding magic and spirit and giftedness in the most ordinary of things. Music can be ordinary. But when Karin and Linford feel it, create it, perform it and record it, well, it becomes extraordinary. Extraordinary ordinary music, the kind of music anyone can relate to. I always say that Over The Rhine is the perfect soundtrack for any day, rain, shine, or both. This album accomplishes a feat difficult for most artists. They offer us something that we average folk can relate to, put in our pockets and take with us throughout our days, but they put a touch of magic in it, so that when we empty our pockets at the end of each day we find something new that we didn't have in those early morning hours when we stuffed them.

My wife and I drove cross country a few summers ago, moving from Washington, DC to Los Angeles, CA. We realized quickly that our cat calmed down when we popped in Over The Rhine on shuffle in the iPod. We would both space out for hours at a time, getting lost in the music, the memories, and the passion. We'd pull into our motel for the night, glance at each other as we turned the iPod off, and, well, you figure the rest out. If you drove cross country with a stranger and listened to Over The Rhine's complete recordings the whole time, you'd be making love by Oklahoma and getting hitched by the time you hit either coast.

If you've never heard Over The Rhine, buy this album. Then buy them one by one in reverse. You will grow to love them just as my wife and I have grown to love them since being teenagers. I lived my life in reverse once by going back and back and back through my Facebook profile to the day I joined in 2007. I highly reccomend that to anyone; you'll learn a lot about yourself you never knew or had forgotten. Might be fun to do with Over The Rhine for the newbies out there. Me, well, I'm glad I've lived my adult life with them a part of it. I hope Karin and Linford understand just how much they touch and enrich our extraordinary ordinary lives with their extraordinary ordinary music.

enJOY.

Mac

Biography

Formed: 1989 in Cincinnati, OH

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s

Over the Rhine had already developed a large and intensely loyal following in their native Cincinnati, OH, before they independently released their first two albums, Till We Have Faces (1991) and Patience (1992). Their music, which they aptly dubbed "post-nuclear, pseudo-alternative, folk-tinged art-pop," is difficult to pigeonhole. They have been compared to 10,000 Maniacs, the Innocence Mission, U2, and Shawn Colvin, but the band's personality seems to owe more to its literary influences (which...
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