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Sackcloth 'N' Ashes (CD)

By: 16 Horsepower (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Sackcloth 'N' Ashes (CD) Album By 16 Horsepower (Artist)
1   I Seen What I Saw
2   Black Soul Choir
3   Scrawled In Sap
4   Horse Head
5   Ruthie Lingle
6   Harm's Way
7   Black Bush
8   Heel On The Shovel
9   American Wheeze
10   Red Neck Reel
11   Prison Shoe Romp
12   Neck On The New Blade
13   Strong Man
 

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Q (5/97, p.128) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...It's edgy stuff, carved in religious phraseology with God-fearing lyrics to match. A dangerously infectious view of the world."
Option (7-8/96, p.131) - "...this trio's got its country blues down stone cold."

Title Note

16 Horsepower: David Eugene Edwards (vocals, guitar, banjo, bandoneon, lap steel); Keven Soll (acoustic bass, cello, background vocals); Jean-Yves Tola (drums, background vocals).

Additional personnel: Gordon Gano (fiddle).

Recorded at Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee.

On SACKCLOTH 'N' ASHES, 16 Horsepower wade through a murky world of old-time sin and redemption. The band creates a distinctive hillbilly-gothic sound with the help of various vintage and handmade instruments, and songwriter David Eugene Edwards' haunted, atonal vocals. Edwards--who plays, among other things, the bandoneon (an early twentieth century accordion) and the banjo--is backed by the military-style drumming of Jean-Yves Tola, and Keven Soll on a flat-top, acoustic bass. The musical result is one part country, two parts Julee Cruise--particularly on songs such as "Horse Head," which features Edwards' voice in a desolate, lo-fi guise, sounding like a keening Tom Waits in hillbilly country. Thematically, this is darkly religious territory, full of death-related imagery and stern spirituality, set against a finely tuned, grim sense of drama. 16 Horsepower seem to hail from a long-ago era, with a horse-and-buggy vernacular that includes lines like these from "Black Bush": "These are the great dust bowl days/Just take a gander round ya/Everything in a wicked haze."

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