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Linford Detweiler

A collection of 10 posts

Love & Revelation: a 'magic hour' with Over the Rhine

Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist return with songs of ruin, loss, and hard-won hope.

On Songs & Albums

Over the Rhine's Christmas Playlist

Here now, is what Over the Rhine would play for you if you asked to hear something besides their own extraordinary Christmas recordings...

Coyote Hunting at Christmas with Linford Detweiler

In this, my fourth Looking Closer conversation with Linford Detweiler of Over the Rhine, we talked about the stories behind the songs on the band's third "Reality Christmas" album, Blood Oranges in the Snow.

"It Can Entrance You For a Moment..."

"Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope."

On Books & Writing

Linford Detweiler of Over the Rhine interviews Joe Henry in Image

The new issue of Image is out! Order yours today. In the meantime, you can get a preview online... Read Gregory Wolfe's new piece, "Breath," and an excerpt of Linford Detweiler's in-depth interview with Joe Henry here.

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

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.

Overstreet's Books

Auralia on the Over the Rhine Tour Bus

Just got a note from Linford Detweiler of Over the Rhine: Auralia was my traveling companion all across Europe and the UK. Wow. Congrats on bringing her to life. I came home and immediately began reading The Hobbit — wanted to stay in a world somewhat reminiscent of Auralia's.

Specials: Linford Detweiler! Radiohead! Balthazar!

Today's specials: * "We often end up writing the music that we need to hear at the time." My latest interview with Over the Rhine's Linford Detweiler is up! * Radiohead's OK Computer is the best album of the last 20 years, says Spin

Coming Home to Ohio: Linford Detweiler on OTR’s double album

Coming Home to Ohio: Linford Detweiler on OTR’s double album

This interview was originally published July 30, 2003, at the original Looking Closer with Jeffrey Overstreet website.

Making Songs Out of Stories: Over the Rhine's Linford Detweiler on 10 Years of Songwriting

Making Songs Out of Stories: Over the Rhine's Linford Detweiler on 10 Years of Songwriting

Here is my in-depth interview with Linford Detweiler about Over the Rhine from the year 2000.