Driven by off-kilter fiddles, a bizarre sense of humor, and punk-inflected country-rock, 16 Horsepower's second album, Sackcloth 'n' Ashes, is a weirdly captivating listen. Nearly every song is a strange, backwoods fable, delivered with clever irony that never undercuts the essential, disturbing intentions of the songs. It's not for everybody, but for alt-country fans tired of Gram Parsons homages, Sackcloth 'n' Ashes is a welcome listen.
I'm not generally into "praise music," but 16 Horsepower is dark enough that it actually works for me. This song, in fact, is dark chocolate, melted and dripping, sinful and inspiring at the same time.I like the accordion solos. He's like, Hey, we're just going to stop everything for a couple bars and I'm going to play the accordion. Brilliant."Praise Jesus like I do" -- just advice, or is thi...
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**"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 promi...
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I'm not generally into "praise music," but 16 Horsepower is dark enough that it actually works for me. This song, in fact, is dark chocolate, melted and dripping, sinful and inspiring at the same time.I like the accordion solos. He's like, Hey, we're just going to stop everything for a couple bars and I'm going to play the accordion. Brilliant."Praise Jesus like I do" -- just advice, or is thi...
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| 1 I Seen What I Saw |
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| 2 Black Soul Choir |
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| 3 Scrawled in Sap |
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| 4 Horse Head |
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| 5 Ruthie Lingle |
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| 6 Harm's Way |
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| 7 Black Bush |
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| 8 Heel on the Shovel |
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| 9 American Wheeze |
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| 10 Red Neck Reel |
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| 11 Prison Shoe Romp |
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| 12 Neck on the New Blade |
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| 13 Strong Man |
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