Over at Americana UK, I've made my case for Over The Rhine being the best band in the world. This is not open to negotiation.
Over The Rhine – again!
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Over The Rhine – Streaming Christmas concert December 2020
Over the Rhine have made a tradition of a Christmas tour and particularly hometown concerts at various venues in Ohio, often the Taft Theatre in Cincinnati. Due to the usual reason in 2020, this isn't happening so they have recorded a show that is available to buy and...
Songs for troubling times.
I can be a bit of a miserable git at times, and this is definitely one of those times. Music has always been my main go to for overcoming the melancholy. So what am I listening to as the world goes down the tubes?Elbow/Sarah Brightman - One Day Like ThisI am a...
Over The Rhine – Love and Revelation, album review
Over the Rhine are one of the people who have made a success out of crowd funding. Using their own web portal and a fiercely loyal fanbase they have used it to make independent musical choices that have resulted in some of the best music of their career.Their last two...
In a holding pattern
Once again life has taken over and time to write here is at a premium. (Ab)normal service will resume in April, if the world keeps gets any madder I may have nothing else left to do by then. In the meantime here is the news.Blog favourite Bill Nelson has been...
Excuses, Excuses
A long gap between posts I'm afraid. Brought on by the busyness of business, but there have been some goings on in music recently that I felt compelled to comment on so...Bill NelsonNo secret that Bill is a huge favourite of mine. He is also someone who seems...
Paying The Cost…
It's Record Store Day and amid the celebrations of all things vinyl & CD, there is the ever present dischord of the difficulty of making a living from music in 2017. I wrote about Over The Rhine recently, and how difficult it is for people like them to...
Over The Rhine Live in London
Busy busy at the moment. My review of Over The Rhine was published by Americana UK recently. If you read my piece on them you may find this interesting as well. Click HERE to read the review.
Artist Choice Two: Over The Rhine
I discovered Over The Rhine on holiday in 2004. The CD that came with Paste Magazine contained 'Show Me' which was a good start but the magazine article, which I can't find online, was what hooked me. A description of the recording process and all round hymn of praise...
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