LOCATION: Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
LINEUP: Karin, Linford
REVIEW BY: Bethany Keeley
So I went to this Acoustic evening dealie at Calvin, the culmination of the two-day festival of faith and music which has taken over my life this weekend. I have so many things to share, I think I'll title the sections in all caps so you can skip the parts you don't care about easily. TONIGHT"S SHOW The whole show was great, for different reasons depending on the artist. Daniel Smith of Danielson Familie was ridiculous and fun. Jan Krist was wonderful. David Bazan of Pedro the Lion was great in the way that he is. And the other musicians were remarkable too. Over the Rhine closed the show with a 4 song set plus one encore. Set list: New Song (Jesus and Mary?) When I Go The World Can Wait Latter Days *** encore: new song (some war references, it was Karin solo on piano and it was VERY nice. I don't remember reading about it before) They were great and the music was great, and I came out saying "oh, yeah, that's why they're my favorite band in the whole wide world" KARIN AND LINFORD'S WORKSHOP I also attended the workshop this afternoon with them. They talked and answered questions for about 90 minutes. They were fun and thoughtful. They said that they don't do a lot of talking about their work, because there's not really a built in system to do that. They told us two of the working titles for the new album, the first is a line out of an Anne Lamott novel (Blue Shoe -- I read it this winter - reccomended.) "a little kickass beauty before we die". The second was from a woman who lives at the same nursing home as Karin's mother "Only God Can Save Us Now". Karin and Linford were poingnant and funny when talking about the nursing home. I didn't write down much, but I remember that it was good. Perhaps it will make it onto the DVD.