Many of the mp3s were listed at archive.org. I knew of the WayBack Machine that archives websites (so that you could find out that a Stephanie M. Jackson owned SMJdesign.com before I did and was a graphic designer), but I did not know that they archived bootlegged music from live concerts. I found the recordings of about twenty Over the Rhine concerts. I looked down the list and found the recording of Over the Rhine at the Dame (Lexington, KY) on September 1, 2007 . I was at this concert with Rachel and Ian Canada. I downloaded all the tracks and now have a fairly good quality of a concert that I actually attended. It’s a little weird to listen to it, since I was actually there.

Although the quality and mix/levels of a live recording are not that great, there’s something about the relaxed, loose nature of a band live that is not on a studio album. I also found entire sets of concerts by Hem when they toured with Over the Rhine at archive.org. I plan to keep looking for other concerts I’ve attended.