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Label: Great Speckled Dog
Release Date: February 8, 2011
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1 The Laugh of Recognition
2 Sharpest Blade
3 Rave On
4 Soon
5 Undamned
6 Infamous Love Songs
7 Only God Can Save Us Now
8 Oh Yeah By the Way
9 The King Knows How


10 There's a Bluebird In My Heart
11 Days Like This
12 All My Favorite People
13 Unspoken



“With The Long Surrender, our vision was to make a record we couldn’t imagine in advance,” says  Linford Detweiler, one half of the married songwriting duo known as Over the Rhine. “We wanted to be surprised. We wanted to remain open, let the record unfold in real time." For Detweiler and partner Karin Bergquist, the theme of "letting go" figures deeply in the dark heart and torchy, tortured soul of the new album -- hence the title -- but it's also an important element in how the album was actually made. The duo arrived at the Pasadena studio/home of producer Joe Henry (Elvis Costello, Solomon Burke) with just songs in hand and a sense of adventure. "Once [Henry] had the band in place, which he selected, then he very much just sort of steered us out to sea and we just sort of discovered what was out there," says Detweiler.

Arriving February 8, The Long Surrender is both fresh and familiar, an album that wisely plays to the OTR strengths -- immaculate songwriting, bulging kit bag of stylistic influences, Berquist's sultry, expressive vocals -- while bringing in new elements from Henry's inspiring studio setting and a superb band that included Jay Bellerose on drums, David Piltch on bass, guitarist extraordinaire Greg Leisz and a trio of seasoned soul singers. It's been three years since the last Rhine studio album -- The Trumpet Child -- but the care given to the creation of the new songs is evident on first listen, a revelaton on repeated listenings. "We had to really sit with the writing for a while on this one," says Detweiler, "and let it happen." Among Surrender's many highlights: "Undamned", featuring a vocals from Lucinda Williams, the piano-backed blues of "Sharpest Blade" and lead track "The King Knows How", a foreboding glint of noir-ish jazz cabaret that doesn't so much swagger as it does slink by.



Official Press Release: The Long Surrender, the new studio album from the southern Ohio-based husband-and-wife team of multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Linford Detweiler and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Karin Bergquist, otherwise known as Over the Rhine, is something rare and wondrous — an intimate epic. The fan-funded record, to be released January 11, 2011 on OtR’s own Great Speckled Dog label (named for the couple’s Great Dane, Elroy), marks 20 years since their 1991 debut. It’s the bountiful result of a collaboration between the couple and Joe Henry, whose songs they’ve long admired.

 “Joe has been quietly making records (well not that quietly, he has won at least two Grammys) that don’t sound like other records bring made in 2010,” says Detweiler. 繼續閱讀