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With its use of banjo, accordion, lap steel, and stand-up bass and its songs about creaking pine porches, shallow graves, prison shoes, and big horses, Sixteen Horsepower would seem to be drawing from the same ancient wells of Americana as the Band. The Band, however, handled this tradition from a working-class perspective of Monday morning blues and Saturday night release. By contrast, Sixteen Horsepower takes the leisure-class approach of existentialist angst, bad college poetry, and no release whatsoever. Edwards simply throws evocative phrases together without bothering to make one fit with the other. Such a technique could be called "experimental," but it could also be called "lazy." Drummer Jean-Yves Tola and bassist Keven Soll help Edwards create a spare, agitated, rock & roll string-band sound behind his doom-and-gloom howlings.
--Geoffrey Himes
Sackcloth 'n' Ashes,Sixteen Horsepower,A&M,Alternative Country-Rock,Alternative Pop/Rock,Pop,Popular Music,Post-Grunge,Rock,Rock/Pop
Sackcloth 'n' Ashes
Average customer rating:
- This is what American music was supposed to sound like
- Very nice
- Hillbilly Acid !!
- Bandoneon?
- Unique in Every Way
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Sackcloth 'n' Ashes
Sixteen Horsepower
Manufacturer: Fontana a&M
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
 General
| Alternative Rock
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Post Grunge
| American Alternative
| Alternative Rock
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Alt-Country & Americana
| Country
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General
| Rock
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Rockabilly
| Oldies & Retro
| Rock
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Pop Rock
| Pop
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- Folklore
- Olden
- Low Estate
- Secret South
- Live
ASIN: B000002G47
Release Date: 1996-02-06 |
Tracks:
- I Seen What I Saw
- Black Soul Chair
- Scrawled In Sap
- Horse Head
- Ruthie Lingle
- Harm's Way
- Black Bush
- Heel On The Shovel
- American Wheeze
- Red Neck Reel
- Prison Shoe Romp
- Neck On The New Blade
- Strong Man
Amazon.com
With its use of banjo, accordion, lap steel, and stand-up bass and its songs about creaking pine porches, shallow graves, prison shoes, and big horses, Sixteen Horsepower would seem to be drawing from the same ancient wells of Americana as the Band. The Band, however, handled this tradition from a working-class perspective of Monday morning blues and Saturday night release. By contrast, Sixteen Horsepower takes the leisure-class approach of existentialist angst, bad college poetry, and no release whatsoever. Edwards simply throws evocative phrases together without bothering to make one fit with the other. Such a technique could be called "experimental," but it could also be called "lazy." Drummer Jean-Yves Tola and bassist Keven Soll help Edwards create a spare, agitated, rock & roll string-band sound behind his doom-and-gloom howlings. --Geoffrey Himes
Customer Reviews:
This is what American music was supposed to sound like.......2007-04-25
The best way I can describe this album is that it conjures images from John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) and like that great American classic, this album puts you under a spell and does not let you go until its over, leaving you exhausted but utterly satisfied. The band takes traditional American roots music and fuses it into a dark and intense blend of folk rock, the perfect backdrop for lyrics dealing with spirituality and human suffering. David Eugene Edwards delivers the vocals with the same ferocity with which I imagine his grandfather, a traveling Nazarene preacher, must have addressed his flock. I recommend their entire catalog.
Very nice.......2007-01-09
Each song on this album is at least solid, folk fun a la 16 Horsepower.
Tracks 8 through 12 seemed especially strong, being rather catchy and enjoyable.
Hillbilly Acid !!.......2005-09-08
Wow, these guys are putting back things they didn't take! Listen to the tracks I Seen What I Saw and American Wheeze and you will think the Doors have been resurrected from Appalachia. These guys are one of the most unique bands of the nineties. Brooding, dark tunes of violence, self righteousness and redemption. Jim Morrison would have loved this band!
Bandoneon?.......2005-01-17
I think I'd have to look up the spelling which I wont since this is a music review and not a written' review. Anyway a Band0neon is like an accordian but different in ways I dont understand, they feature this instument on a number of cuts with very haunting results.The lyrics are haunting as well, its a Flannery O'Connor mood crossed with all the greats of bluegrass ghosts, it creates a unique sound you would be a fool not to enjoy. It reminds me of the times as a child we visited old man Ritz's house deep in the woods behind our house, Mr. Ritz worked for Nasa and seldom visited his family farm getaway, so we ran amok on his property,never at ease mind you, but amok we ran. He was a scary figure who we never met and never expected to meet until one day I landed a job picking up rocks in a freshly plowed field, we would ride on a trailer behind a tractor and every so often the tractor would stop and we would hop off and pick up the rocks and throw them on the trailer. I suggested to Uncle Leon (the farmer who farmed Mr Ritz's property for him) that we just paint all the rocks red and have the migrant workers pick them up thinking they were tomatoes, he didnt think to much of this suggestion so we continued with our work. The next day we were picken' up rocks when a man walks up to Leon and told him we should paint the rocks red and tell the migrant workers they was tomatoes...This album reminds me of my first and only meeting with old man Ritz.Buy the album.
Unique in Every Way.......2004-11-02
This is perhaps the most unique CD I have in my collection. If I had to describe the music I would have to say it is a mix of bluegrass, Johnny Cash, and the Old Testament. The only thing that even comes close is the O Brother Where Art Thou? Soundtrack. Great for anyone seeking a break from the commercial crapola that is put out nowadays. I really enjoy putting it on the CD player going down the dirt roads of West Virginia. Its a great CD and I reccomend it to anyone who is a fan of great music
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