Everybody's News, Cincinnati
December 1991

Contributors: John Fox, Dan Reed, Michael Barrett

BLOWIN' IN THE BLIZZARD

Over the Rhine has just returned from playing several dates supporting the great Bob Dylan. Two OtR members opened for Dylan at a Cleveland show last year which led to this month's Iowa and Wisconsin dates. After the Dylan concerts they also played other gigs in smaller clubs and had considerable radio airplay along the way. The tour succeeded in giving the band, says guitarist Linford Detweiler, "a new lust for life." This revelation was a result of a fairly major accident the band was involved in while on the road in a blizzard. Fortunately, no one was hurt and the only damage to the instruments, says Detweiler, was a broken guitar knob. Their van, however, was not so fortunate.

In better OtR news, Detweiler told EN that while waiting in a food and beverage line backstage at one of the venues, a server asked drummer Brian Kelley for his autograph, completely overlooking or simply disinterested in Dylan himself, who was standing beside Kelley.