ARTiST : Over The Rhine
ALBUM : Discount Fireworks
LABEL : Back Porch
GENRE : Indie
RELEASE : 2007-02-08
STREET : 2007-02-06
ENCODER : LAME 3.90
QUALiTY : 187kbps avg / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
SiZE : 100 MB
PLAYTiME : 01:11:19
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[#] [Track Name] [Time]
1. Last Night On Earth Again 3:35
2. If Nothing Else 4:57
3. Suitcase 3:27
4. Give Me Strength 4:15
5. Latter Days 5:42
6. The World Can Wait 5:47
7. Show Me 4:21
8. Born 6:15
9. All I Need Is Everything 5:04
10. Ohio 5:14
11. Sleep Baby Jane 5:01
12. How Does It Feel? (To Be On My Mind) 3:57
13. Lookin' Forward (Live) 4:12
14. Within Without 4:28
15. Like A Radio 5:04
71:19
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DISCOUNT FIREWORKS: A COLLECTION
The music of Over the Rhine has survived for 15 years. Maybe itÆs time for a
little mile-marker. For years our fans have told us how much they like to go
through our recordings and pick and choose and put their own collections
together to introduce friends to the songs. Maybe itÆs our turn to put together
a little collection. Not a ôBest Ofö or anything definitive, but a good taste. A
birthday cake baked from fifteen years of musical chicken scratch.
The longer weÆve toured and recorded, the deeper weÆve been able to feel what an
honor and privilege it is to be an American band, to have these songs
occasionally rub shoulders with the songs of our musical heroes. Early on in our
career, we got to open a handful of shows for Bob Dylan. He was in a fairly dark
period of his life, but still, there he was in the dinner line with us backstage
in Madison, Wisconsin, spooning food onto his plate as if we were all at a
church carry-in dinner. WeÆre fans first and are always thrilled when artists
like Leo Kottke, or Jane Siberry, or Buddy and Julie Miller, or Ron Sexsmith, or
Amy Rigby come to Cincinnati to join us in front of our hometown crowd. This is
Ohio after all. WeÆre a little off the beaten path. But what a connecting force
music is. Inevitably we gather the musicians on stage and sing a few songs
together at the end of the night, and itÆs obvious that a few thousand people
wander out into the dark feeling something really good thatÆs hard to put into
words. American music is one of the few deeply communal enterprises left in this
country.
The first time we performed in Italy we were dumbstruck by the beauty of
Tuscany, those little tucked away towns. I scribbled this line: Italy is a
leather bound book. We walk on marbled endpapers beneath the glass blown night.
Should we drop everything and move here? What artist doesnÆt wonder?
But no, Italy could never have given the world Johnny Cash. ItÆs the great
contradictions of America that interest us, the wealth and poverty, the
generosity and greed, the naivety and brutality, the optimism and superstition.
So much music in the world that could only have happened in America! Our jazz
and blues musicians, our songwriters, black gospel, bluegrass and soul û
American music û this is some of the best, most enduring stuff weÆve given the
world as a nation, period.
Who knows anything about the future of the recording industry? I would argue
that after 15 years in the trenches on and off labels, 15 years of hanging out
with people who bought tickets to our shows, bought the CDÆs and taped or burned
copies to pass out to their friends, and then came back next time we came to
town with new people who seemed to know every word to every song, and then
e-mailed us to tell us they fell in love to this music, or walked down the aisle
to it, or danced their first dance to it, or conceived to it, or took it to the
hospital and gave birth to it, or underwent cancer treatments to it, or took it
to Iraq so they could have some connection to home during a war they couldnÆt
believe theyÆd somehow signed up for, or yes, some even buried their loved ones
to this music û I would argue that I know as much or as little as anyone. A good
song that matters to somebody will always matter.
So back to these songs, back to the basicsà They were the songs that we needed
to write at the time. If we hadnÆt written them, they wouldnÆt exist. If you
inspire someone, it doesnÆt matter if youÆre John Lennon, Joni Mitchell, Bob
Dylan, or a married couple from Southern Ohio: the world got bigger, the lungs
hold more air.
Everyone who has truly lived has their great adventure: this music has an awful
lot to do with ours so far.
Happy listening,
Linford Detweiler for Over the Rhine
October, 2006
http://www.overtherhine.com