We can’t all come from Connersville. Indiana is not big enough. We’d all
have to have been born there, to have the sleepiness cleared from our newborn
eyes, to have stared in wonder while a Middle American doctor slaps our
bottoms, crying, being breastfed from the red tractors and green, green
grass of home, to have spent our childhoods playing with barn cats and
endless blue skies, expecting square deals and wolfing down home cooking
cooked (and sometimes burned, for who among us are perfect?) in blackened
pots inherited from grandma.
The best bands are travel writers. Through their music and their words we
are brought, beyond our will, thank goodness, to places where true love
sometimes dies, where our darkness becomes our better half, where we
betray the ones who trusted us, where we are scorned and scorn back, and
where all that we once sought with such assured fury throws the last
shovel-full of earth into our graves.
Heartbreak Orchestra is one of those bands.
Cello and guitar, voice and reply, tambourine and mandolin, harmonica like
a troubled conscience — all bubble and froth and simmer and flame into
a country blues early era rock-n-roll with a symphonic twist. They paid
their dues. Here is their music.
We can’t all come from Connersville. But now we can pretend we did.
— Josh Dubrow, 2007
We were playing last night at The RUmba, otherwise I would have been at Victorian's to see your guitar playing with a baby belly. I am sure you had a blast! Hope to see you guys soon! MISSMOLLY
Are you really playing at the Ruby Tuesday restaurant chain? I love their salad bar! If you are, in fact, playing at a bar called Ruby Tuesday, I will make sure to show up and complain about the lack of salad.
Thanks for the add! I love your sound and so I am very glad that Michael led me to you. (Now if he would just put some Cropchecker on MySpace for us...maybe?! ;)
Hey, thanks for the add. Beautiful music. I see you even let one of those Lucas boys play in your band. That's extremely nice of you. I'll keep checking back for updates.
tHANKS FOR AN AMAZING SHOW SATURDAY!! WANT TO DO A GIG WITH US AT THE THIRSTY EAR? IT'S NOV. 29TH. WE'LL TALK! KEEP MAKING THAT LOVELY MUSIC!! PEACE MISS MOLLY
It is not length of life, but depth of life. Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A prayer that your coming week is full of life and good spirit! Much love ~R~
Hey, thanks.... great show last night, truly a pleasure to listen and meet you all. Was listening to the disc today.... absolutely fantastic. Look forward to seeing you all again.....mike.
So, someone was playing some Gillian Welch and I seriously thought it was Jill singing. And I thought that's cool they have a Heartbreak Orchestra album. Separated at birth???
