The Cutting Room Floor
In the Spring of 2001, we released a record called Films For Radio. The songs on that recording swept us away on our most extensive tours of the USA and Europe, ever. We saw a lot of amazing people and places along the way. We wanted to say thanks.

There is a wonderful scene toward the end of a film called Cinema Paridiso in which the protagonist sits and watches a reel of love scenes that were cut from the movies shown in his Italian village on Saturdays when he was a boy. We took a little time to splice together some lost scenes of our own.

Some of the songs collected here have already appeared on overtherhine.com as monthly musical postcards, MP-3’s. Stop by sometime if you haven’t already. We like to think of the original demos included here as a sort of musical director’s commentary. And there are a few mementos of the tours: Karin eventually began performing Give Me Strength at the piano and chose Neil Young’s Helpless to close our December concerts last year. We were honored to be joined by Buddy and Julie, and Erin and Kim for this performance.

So sit back, turn up the volume, close your eyes and enjoy. This collection is not available in stores. It was made for our closest and best supporters which, if you’ve read this far, probably includes you.

- Over the Rhine