The Trumpet Child<\/em>.<\/p>\nJurek, like Andy Whitman, is one of the music critics whose reflections always challenge, inform, and inspire me\u2026 even when I disagree.<\/p>\n
His review of The Trumpet Child<\/em> is sharp and full of references to send you scurrying about and discovering the treasure troves that inspired Over the Rhine to make this music. He singles out a couple of tracks he wishes they\u2019d left off. Me, I would have made different selections\u2026 but that is often the case with OTR listeners.<\/p>\nJurek would probably include me in what he calls \u201cthe devotional wilderness of [Over the Rhine\u2019s] cult.\u201d And I suppose that\u2019s not far from the truth. I am an enthusiastic fan, because their music has had a profound influence on my life and led me into an appreciation of genres and traditions and artists I would otherwise have missed. One song in particular I can honestly say \u201cchanged my life.\u201d And I\u2019ve ordered the vinyl version of this album, just so I can frame that beautiful\u00ac\u2020cover and hang it up. (I do, however, insist on writing about the aspects of their albums that don\u2019t work for me\u2026 and always have. I\u2019m not going to slavishly celebrate anything they record.)<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve written two reviews of The Trumpet Child<\/em>: One will be in the next print issue of Christianity Today<\/em>, and then I\u2019ve contributed some more thoughts on the album to the next issue of Risen<\/em>.<\/p>\nAnd by the way\u2026 for you poetry readers out there\u2026 Karin Bergquist has admitted that the great poet Scott Cairns inspired a line on this album. Can you figure out which line that is?<\/p>\n
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