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Over the Rhine

Linford Detweiler Tells Over the Rhine's "Made in America" Story

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15 Nov 2007
Filed under: Over the Rhine • Linford Detweiler • On Songs & Albums • Paste Magazine

At Paste, Linford Detweiler slips into that storytelling voice that fans of Over the Rhine know and love, and he vividly illustrates the events leading up to his career as a songwriter, to the recording of The Trumpet Child, and to the arrival of a song about Tom Waits.

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Breaking this week’s (apparent) silence...

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Technical difficulties interrupted my posting this week.
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