“We’ve seen the landfill rainbow, we’ve seen the junkyard of love. Baby it’s no place for you and me...”
Over the Rhine borrowed their name from one of Cincinnati’s most colorful and controversial neighborhoods. From its earliest days, the area served as a port-of-entry for immigrants and, over the years, has become a melting pot where people strive to make better lives for themselves. It’s here in this storied neighborhood that Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler first began making their music, somehow imbuing it with the tattered but lovely craftsmanship and sense of history that surrounded them.