Blood Oranges in the Snow (Great Speckled Dog, 2014)
Over the Rhine
Reviewed by Dan MacIntosh
Many folks' first attraction to Over The Rhine's music was Karen Bergquist's heavenly vocals and Linford Detweiler's smart lyrics, both of which are on ample display here. Detweiler gives Haggard a run for his money in the lyrical sadness category with "My Father's Body," which begins with the line, "My father's body lies beneath the snow," which likely won't be sung a lot during drunken company holiday parties. It's one of six songs Detweiler either wrote or co-wrote on this nine-song collection. It's as much a meditation on the winter season, as it is a Christmas album. But has The Hag has written about Christmas, it takes place in "the coldest part of winter."
This is a beautiful little project, which just happens to take place during the cold season.
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