''The Trumpet Child'' is the tenth studio album by

Over the Rhine Over-the-Rhine, often abbreviated as OTR, is a List of Cincinnati neighborhoods, residential neighborhood located in the urban basin of Cincinnati, Ohio. Over-the-Rhine is among the largest, most intact urban Historic districts in the United S ...

, released in 2007. In addition to the CD, the album was also released on 180-gram vinyl.

Track listing

#"I Don’t Wanna Waste Your Time" (Detweiler) - 4:01 #"Trouble" (Bergquist) - 4:00 #''I’m on a Roll'' (Bergquist/Detweiler) (3:18) #"Nothing Is Innocent" (Bergquist/Detweiler) - 3:52 #'"The Trumpet Child" (Detweiler) - 3:45 #"Entertaining Thoughts" (Bergquist) - 3:08 #"Who’m I Kiddin’ But Me" (Bergquist) - 3:28 #"Let’s Spend the Day in Bed" (Bergquist/Detweiler) - 5:47 #"Desperate for Love" (Detweiler) - 3:05 #"Don’t Wait for Tom" (Detweiler) - 4:19 #"If a Song Could Be President" (Detweiler) - 3:09

Personnel

Over the Rhine * Karin Bergquist – voice, acoustic guitar (2) * Linford Detweiler – acoustic piano (1, 2, 5, 8, 9), acoustic guitars (3, 4, 6, 8, 11),

vibraphone The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using Percussion mallet, mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone ...

(3),

Wurlitzer electric piano The Wurlitzer electronic piano is an electric piano manufactured and marketed by Wurlitzer from 1954 to 1983. Sound is generated by striking a metal reed with a hammer, which induces an electric current in a pickup. It is conceptually similar to ...

(7, 8),

Rhodes piano The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, th ...

(8),

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert, first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding #Drawbars, drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, sound was created ...

(8, 11),

tack piano A tack piano (also known as a harpsipiano, jangle piano, and junk piano) is an altered version of an ordinary piano, in which objects such as thumbtacks or nails are placed on the felt-padded hammers of the instrument at the point where the ha ...

(10), harmony vocals (11) Additional musicians * Tony Paoletta –

slide guitar Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos that ...

(3),

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a console steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings, enabling more varied and complex music to be played than with other steel guitar designs. Like all steel guitars, it can play ...

(4, 10, 11) * Rick Plant – slide guitar (6) *

Matt Slocum Matt Slocum (born 27 December 1972) is a guitarist, cellist, pianist and composer, known for his work as the principal songwriter and lead guitarist of Sixpence None the Richer. Biography Born in Rhode Island to Joseph and Hildegard Slocum, ...

– electric guitars (8) * Brad Jones –

upright bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...

(1-4),

bass harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica include ...

(2), percussion (2),

Chamberlin The Chamberlin is an electro-mechanical keyboard instrument that was a precursor to the Mellotron. It was developed and patented by the American inventor Harry Chamberlin from 1949 to 1956, when the first model was introduced. There are several ...

(4, 11)

organ Organ and organs may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a group of tissues organized to serve a common function * Organ system, a collection of organs that function together to carry out specific functions within the body. Musical instruments ...

(6),

harmonium The pump organ or reed organ is a type of organ that uses free reeds to generate sound, with air passing over vibrating thin metal strips mounted in a frame. Types include the pressure-based harmonium, the suction reed organ (which employs a va ...

(6), electric guitars (6, 8), bass (6-8, 10, 11), slide guitar (7) * Byron House – upright bass (5) * Mickey Grimm – drums (1-4, 7, 11), percussion (2, 3, 7, 10) * Devon Ashley – drums (2, 3), percussion (3) * Lindsay Jamieson – drums (6, 8, 10), percussion (6, 8) * Jim Hoke – saxophones (1, 5),

alto flute The alto flute is an instrument in the Western concert flute family, pitched below the standard C flute and the uncommon flûte d'amour. It is the third most common member of its family after the standard C flute and the piccolo. It is chara ...

(4), vibraphone (4),

clarinet The clarinet is a Single-reed instrument, single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore (wind instruments), bore and a flared bell. Clarinets comprise a Family (musical instruments), family of instrume ...

(9),

bass clarinet The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common Soprano clarinet, soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays no ...

(10) * Neil Rosengarden –

valve trombone The valve trombone is a brass instrument in the trombone family that has a set of valves to vary the pitch instead of (or in addition to) a slide. Although it has been built in sizes from alto to contrabass, it is the tenor valve trombone pitched ...

(1), trumpet (1, 5),

muted trumpet A mute is a device attached to a musical instrument which changes the instrument's tone quality (timbre) or lowers its volume. Mutes are commonly used on string and brass instruments, especially the trumpet and trombone, and are occasionally us ...

(5) * David Henry – cello (2) * Chris Carmichael – violin (4, 8), cello (8, 9), viola (8)

Production

* Brad Jones – producer, recording, mixing * Pete Hicks – recording * Roger Seibel – mastering at SAE Mastering (Phoenix, Arizona) * Amy Seiffert – design, illustration * Rob Seiffert – design, illustration * Michael Wilson – photography * Linford Detweiler – liner notes * Glen Phillips – management

Notes

*The front cover illustration and package design was done by Perrysburg, Ohio-based Madhouse, marking the first non-Christmas, non-compilation album not to feature a Michael Wilson photograph on the cover. However, Wilson's work does appear in the CD booklet. *The lyrics to "Don't Wait For Tom" contain several references to

Tom Waits Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American musician, composer, songwriter, and actor. His lyrics often focus on society's underworld and are delivered in his trademark deep, gravelly voice. He began in the American folk music, fo ...

songs, including "Swordfish Trombones," "Ol' 55," and "Make It Rain."

References

External links

''The Trumpet Child''
- entry on OTR's official site {{DEFAULTSORT:Trumpet Child, The Over the Rhine (band) albums 2007 albums