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Over the Rhine is an American, Cincinnati-based folk music band, the core of which is the husband-and-wife team of pianist/guitarist/bassist Linford Detweiler and vocalist/guitarist Karin Bergquist. The band began as a quartet with guitarist Ric Hordinski and drummer Brian Kelley.
Singer, songwriter, and producer Joe Henry, who produced two of Over the Rhine’s recent albums, was interviewed by Linford Detweiler about his own music in Image issue 71. This time, Henry is asking the questions.
A big thanks to one-half of Over the Rhine, the pianist, bassist, and songwriter Linford Detweiler, for participating in our reader interview–and to our Imagereaders for their thoughtful, funny, and off-the-wall questions.
In that time, singersongwriters/ multi-instrumentalists Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler (who've been married for 22 years) have built a vivid, emotionally-charged body of work that has won them a deeply devoted following and critical acclaim.
Earnest, fierce, comforting and honest, the married duo crafts beautiful folk-pop ballads and tender country-blues confessions with a narrative grace and literate sympathy that has kept them writing and traveling for the past thirty years.
May 4, 2017 · As they so eloquently articulate in “All Of It Was Music” from their most recent studio album Meet Me At The Edge Of The World (2013), Over the Rhine’s Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist have been conjuring inspired reveries of heartache and hope together for nearly 30 years.
Feb 8, 2011 · Named for the Cincinnati neighborhood where the band used to live, Over the Rhine is husband and wife Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist. For more than 20 years, the two have written lyrics...
