I’ve had a special affinity for Over the Rhine” for several years now. A humble, talented couple that’s content playing concerts inside their barn in Ohio. Around the time of The Long Surrender, they started delving into a more bluesy sound. It made their songs richer and wiser. To me “The Laugh of Recognition” is about grinning and bearing it, because we simply must go on. This pandemic we’re living in is a powerful reminder of exactly that.

“It's called the laugh of recognition. When you laugh but you feel like dyin'.”