Triple Door Bell: Over the Rhine Is SRO

The husband-and-wife team Over the Rhine [MySpace] play at the Triple Door at 7:30pm this Thursday and Friday, and both shows are already sold out -- SRO tickets will be on sale the nights of the shows.

They're touring for their new album The Trumpet Child, which All Music Guide reviews thusly:

Produced by Brad Jones and recorded in Nashville, the album's music is steeped in the other kind of Americana: not the gothic country one that gave listeners the Cowboy Junkies, Steve Earle, latter-day Emmylou Harris, or the imagined planes of Daniel Lanois' world, but the one that bred Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Randy Newman, Jack Teagarden, Rickie Lee Jones, Maria Muldaur, and Tom Waits.

The couple are 74 on Paste Magazine's list of the 100 best living songwriters, take their band name from a ("gritty" or "historic") neighborhood in Cincinnati (favorite coffeeshop: Kaldi's), and have been releasing albums since 1991 (says Wikipedia).

As for the album title, Linford Detweiler says:

Both Karin and I grew up around a lot of old church music. I think some of the old hymns taught us that words could be beautiful, with their titles like ‘Softly and Tenderly,’ ‘When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder,’ and ‘Let the Lower Lights Be Burning.’ A theme that recurred in a lot of the old hymns was the idea that the world would be reborn with the sound of a trumpet. We’ve all heard many of the great American trumpet (and horn) players -- Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stan Getz -- and we’ve been wondering about the sound of that trumpet. Is it real? Is it a metaphor? What, exactly, is on God’s iPod?

That's all it takes to get you on Christianity Today, we see. We're not sure if there's a more tangible christer connection.