{"id":1230,"date":"2008-12-16T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2008-12-16T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T01:51:00","slug":"there%e2%80%99s-no-such-thing-as-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=1230","title":{"rendered":"there\u2019s no such thing as cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>and we\u2019re gonna pull through<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Over_the_rhine\">Over the Rhine<\/a> makes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/old\/music\/12%20We%27re%20Gonna%20Pull%20Through.mp3\">music for married people<\/a>.  It&#8217;s hard to describe without having absorbed a half-dozen or so of their songs.  There&#8217;s both an utter confidence in and comfort with their own style, no hesitance to the lyrics and every note is deliberately placed.  I&#8217;ve liked their music for a long time, ever since Rebekah let me borrow <i>Films for Radio<\/i> at the youth conference, but it&#8217;s acquired a new depth and resonance since becoming married.  Perhaps, when I was single, I liked them in a &#8220;prophetic&#8221; sense, anticipating the time when the music would flesh out through experience?  Who knows.  Many couples have &#8220;our band&#8221; or &#8220;our song,&#8221; and I really believe OtR is Diane&#8217;s and mine, from singleness (<i>Good Dog, Bad Dog<\/i>) to courtship (<i>Ohio<\/i> and especially <i>Drunkard&#8217;s Prayer<\/i>) to married romance and turbulence (<i>Snow Angel<\/i> and <i>The Trumpet Child<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>Part of the connection has to be the fact that the band members, Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist, are married in actuality, and surely much (most?) of their music reflects their own day-to-day as a couple.  We have <em>got<\/em> to see them in concert.  We&#8217;ve come so close several times&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>i\u2019d rather feel your heat<br \/>\non a wicked winter day<br \/>\nthan watch a holiday parade<br \/>\nwith dancers and balloons<br \/>\nwe\u2019re gonna pull through<\/p>\n<p>you hold me just the same way<br \/>\nlevon would play<br \/>\nand &#8220;the weight&#8221; is my favorite song<br \/>\nwe\u2019re gonna pull through<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and we\u2019re gonna pull through Over the Rhine makes music for married people. It&#8217;s hard to describe without having absorbed a half-dozen or so of their songs. There&#8217;s both an utter confidence in and comfort with their own style, no hesitance to the lyrics and every note is deliberately placed. I&#8217;ve liked their music for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}