**"16 Horsepower"** spent a lot of time during the late eighties/ early ninties moving around the country trying to figure out who they were and what they wanted to do. Starting out in Colorado where lead singer and main songwriter _David Eugene Edwards_ found himself, at the age of seventeen, married and cast out of the family home by his grandfather who was a Nazarene preacher. With the promise of eternal damnation thrown upon him he joins a few punk bands that play around but eventually leave him unsatisfied. He moves to Boston in 1986 and forms a band, things don't work out and he moves back to Colorado. Some of the guys from the Boston move with him and they soon start up another band once settled in Denver. It's 1990 and things still aren't working out for them in Denver so it's off to L.A. where they get jobs as carpenters on the set of a Roger Cormen film. This is where they team up with other musicians that finally form the first line-up of 16 Horsepower, and then they move back to Colorado. More line-up changes occur and by late 1995 they finally release _"Sackcloth 'n' Ashes"_.In describing the bands sound, front-man David Eugene Edwards namechecks Nick Cave, Violent Femmes, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Joy Division. A heady brew indeed. Dutch music magazine OOR declares "Sackcloth 'n' Ashes" best album of the year for 1996.Since 2001 David Eugene Edwards has also recorded solo work under the name "Woven Hands". 16 Horsepowers last studio effort, "Folklore" was released in 2002 to much critical acclaim.
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