Over The Rhine

Over the Rhine (also occasionally referred to as OtR) is a Cincinnati, Ohio-based musical band. Originally a quartet with guitarist Ric Hordinski and drummer Brian Kelley, Over the Rhine is now solely the married-duo of Linford Detweiler (bassist/pianist/guitarist) and Karin Bergquist (vocalist/guitarist) with "hired guns" on albums and tours. Linford and Karin were not married at the foundation of the band. The band's namesake and place of origin is the Cincinnati neighborhood Over-the-Rhine. Karin attended school in Barnesville, Ohio and graduated from Barnesville High School in 1984. She then went to Malone College, located in Canton, Ohio, where she met Linford. They have both toured and recorded in many shapes and forms. Over the years, the band has opened for a number of musicians, including Bob Dylan, and toured as "adjunct" members of Cowboy Junkies. Formed in the spring of 1989, at a time when Detweiler, Hordinski, and Kelley were also touring as part of the final incarnation of Servant, Over the Rhine released independently their first album, Till We Have Faces, in 1991. Paste Magazine granted its first five-star reviews to Over the Rhine's 2003 double album Ohio, released on Virgin Records' Back Porch Records label. Over the Rhine's studio album, Drunkard's Prayer, was released on March 29, 2005, and a limited edition live album titled Live from Nowhere, Volume One was released in April 2006. A second limited edition live album, Live from Nowhere, Volume Two was released in March 2007, just over a month from their last release for Virgin/Back Porch Records, called Discount Fireworks, a career retrospective including one new studio song. Linford has also recorded and released three solo projects composed of home-recorded acoustic, piano-based music. Their album titled 'The Trumpet Child' was released on August 21, 2007.