**"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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secretly, i harbor the notion i predated MOG by ten years.it was 1997 that i found purpose for my persnickety self when it comes to punctuation: i discovered the Internet. or, anyway, i subscribed to dialup for the first time - because i got hooked on that early edition of blogging known as the personal Web site. mine were pages and pages of jerkwater everydays and song lyrics that resonated th...
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so this "exercise" has made the rounds a few times, but i thought i'd take a closer look at the songs that the shuffle gives me, partly inspired by a recent post from Brandarius. possibly a little lengthy, but what the heck - it's Friday!Doing the iPod Shuffle for the Soundtrack of my Life.(a sometimes interesting experiment – sometimes it makes you think, sometimes it gets you to listen to son.
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Ralph Stanley vs Black Sabbath(?) Like a Flannery Conner novella set to music. Interesting how the Banjo and the Oud have similar voices, similar finger styles. Listen to this track, and then the following track by Nizar Rohana. I'm telling you its the Songlines again...
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Reissue of 16 Horsepower's long-out-of-print third album. It's not their best, but certainly worthy.
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Just read on Pestiside.hu that 16 Horsepower's frontman David Eugene Edwards and his Woven Hand project have a gig in Budapest tonight at the A38 Ship. If you want to hear the latest album from Woven Hand it's called Mosaic
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My absence was an unwanted necessity, in February I was laid off from my job though I was lucky enough to get another job rather quickly (not in my field) the pay cut was substantial and hit my family and I hard. We are on the road to recovery financially but it’s a long road [...]
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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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