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Linford Detweiler

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On Songs & Albums

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.

The Auralia Thread

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.

Looking Elsewhere

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

[This interview was originally published July 30, 2003, at the original Looking Closer website.] On August 19th, 2003, Over the Rhine will celebrate the release of their tenth album by making it a double. Ohio boasts two full-length discs of new material. And that most astonishing thing is that, after

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

[This interview was originally published at the website for a non-profit arts organization called Promontory Artists Association in February 2000.] • Linford Detweiler has learned to take it easy. It’s a Saturday afternoon in Seattle, unusually sunny for late February, and he joins my wife Anne and me for coffee