Hoarse

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Boarding the same hay wagon to hell that's transported murder balladeers from Grayson & Whitter to Nick Cave, Nazarene preacher's grandson David Eugene Edwards has been channeling his religious upbringing into the "gothabilly" glory that is 16 Horsepower since 1993. This live collection--culled from three 1998 performances--cherry picks from the Denver band's first two albums for such fire-and-brimstone favorites as "Black Soul Choir," "For Heaven's Sake," and "Brimstone Rock." Edwards's haunted tenor may sound more polished in the studio, but the intensity of his live performance--coupled with suitably swampy covers of Creedence, Gun Club, and Joy Division songs--makes this a must for established fans and any newcomers who need convincing that concertinas and banjos can be just as creepy as their electrified cousins. --Bill Forman

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Hoarse

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For the Dirty Whiskey Folk
Not their best

Hoarse
16 Horsepower
Manufacturer: Alternative Tentacle
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000BITTPS
Release Date: 2006-01-10

Tracks:

American Wheeze
Black Soul Choir
Bad Moon Risin'
Low Estate
For Heaven's Sake
Black Lung
Horse Head
South Pennsylvania Waltz
Brimstone Rock
Fire Spirit/ - Bertrand Cantat, 16 Horsepower
Day of the Lords

Customer Reviews:

For the Dirty Whiskey Folk.......2007-05-09

Admit it, you love it when you get an album that is so good that everyone you have listen to it gives awkward dirty looks. You know the looks, the ones that say, "What are you making me listen to and why do you own it!?"

Hoarse is an amazing live set. The band displays an eerie energy as if playing from a busted-up warped wood porch in some unsettling fog... and the front yard a 19th century cemetery. This is back-woods folk / country / wrath of heaven & hell whiskey guzzlin' music. You'll be left staring at the technology playing this recording in awe wishing you had an old turntable and 'Hoarse' on primitive, mono vinyl. Modern stereos seem to be this music's antithesis.

Let me add too that often it is difficult to make out the lyrics. Don't let that adversely affect you. You will be affected though, whether you like the affect as I did or not is another story.

This is not your typical live disc. Hoarse feels like it should be heard and played this way. An experience to say the least.

Not their best.......2007-01-12

I don't think I'll be spending much time with this CD. It doesn't effectively convey the darkness this band is capable of. I don't care for the bass heavy mix either.

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Before The Fags there was Hoarse...
Before its Time

Happens Twice
Hoarse
Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002X00
Release Date: 1997-08-12

Tracks:

Diamond
Tuesday Morning
Trivial
Push
Issue
72
Happens Twice
Paint The Town Red
Crown
Bouncing Checks
On Deck
Long Gone

Product Description

Excellent condition, includes original Cd, case, and all paperwork, First Class shipping, ask me for my complete Cd List file! :)

Customer Reviews:

Before The Fags there was Hoarse..........2004-07-19

I remember seeing this band play when I just started high school. At that time they had a song on the radio ("Diamond"), which generated some quick interest from the kids in the area. Then, just as quickly as they appeared, Hoarse seemed to fade away like quarters at an arcade. However, I thought the album, although nothing remotely close to groundbreaking at the time (latter half of the 90's), had some pretty good cuts that made for a simple but enjoyable listen. The singer John and the drummer Jimmy went on to form The Fags, who have made their prescence felt in and around the Detroit area.

As for this record, the music has a very alternative feel to it, but is also less polished than most so a slight indie rock sound accompanies it. My favorite cuts are "Issue", "Push", "Diamond", and "Tuesday Morning"; the first two are still being played once in a while by The Fags. Give this a listen if youre a fan of The Fags or just feel like taking a trip back to the 90's.

Before its Time.......2003-02-15

If this album had come out in 2001-2002 it would have been a big hit, too bad it came out in 1997. Very Jimmy Eat World, emo-punk sounding.

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Infectious, passionate
The most passionate and intense music you'll ever hear.
Mr. Bob Log approves!!!!!!!
If you like 16HP.......
The next best thing to "being there"

Hoarse
16 Horsepower
Manufacturer: Checkered Past
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005JDC9
Release Date: 2001-06-12

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American Wheeze
Black Soul Chair
Bad Moon Risin'
Low Estate
For Heaven's Sake
Black Lung
Horse Head
South Pennsylvania Waltz
Brimstone Rock
Fire Spirit
Day Of The Lords

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Boarding the same hay wagon to hell that's transported murder balladeers from Grayson & Whitter to Nick Cave, Nazarene preacher's grandson David Eugene Edwards has been channeling his religious upbringing into the "gothabilly" glory that is 16 Horsepower since 1993. This live collection--culled from three 1998 performances--cherry picks from the Denver band's first two albums for such fire-and-brimstone favorites as "Black Soul Choir," "For Heaven's Sake," and "Brimstone Rock." Edwards's haunted tenor may sound more polished in the studio, but the intensity of his live performance--coupled with suitably swampy covers of Creedence, Gun Club, and Joy Division songs--makes this a must for established fans and any newcomers who need convincing that concertinas and banjos can be just as creepy as their electrified cousins. --Bill Forman

Customer Reviews:

Infectious, passionate.......2006-07-13

It is no surprise to you I'm sure to see yet another five-star review of this disc; it is an amazing live document showing all the intensity of this band in concert. The surprising thing is that I like this band at all. I am not a religious person. I am not even a believer, at least in the traditional Christian sense of the word. Usually I avoid preachy religious bands like the plague, but 16HP is different somehow. Yes the religious imagery is there, with all the subtlety of--to use their own words--"a hammer on a church bell", but still I love this music.

The most passionate and intense music you'll ever hear........2005-03-30

I first heard of 16HP a couple of years ago on a message board, but didn't check them out until one of my favorite bands, Rasputina, said they gave an awesome live show. I went and downloaded Folklore and Hoarse. Hoarse absolutely blew me away. This music goes down to the bone. Takes your breath away. Gives you chills. Creeps you out in the best possible way. How can you not be moved by "Low Estate"? It is one of the most haunting songs you will ever hear (along with Nick Cave's "Where the wild roses grow". Cave and 16HP's lead singer actually have similar backgrounds, which is interesting.)"Brimstone Rock" is a song that seems as if it is about to bust through your speakers and attack you. The fact that they cover Joy Division is reason enough to check this album out. Their covers of CCR's "Bad Moon Rising" and the Gun Club's "Fire Spirit" become 16HP songs. They cease to be covers. Every song is amazing. A play-through record. You don't want to skip a track.

Mr. Bob Log approves!!!!!!!.......2002-05-29

This is a superb example of alt-country fuzz guitar, down home, slow dying, still breathin (but barely) bible thumpn, toe tappin goodness. My socks get wet jut thikning about it. Songs like Blacklung, and Brimstone Rock will chill your soul, man. This band is incredible live, and this recording does them justice. It's haunting, and endearing...it grows on you, believe me. A fan could never be disappointed by David's clarity and by the brisk jolt of energy that this c.d. offers. Fuzz guitar at it's best, folks. Righty-o and good day.

If you like 16HP..............2002-01-25

You definitely must have this CD. There is a good assortment of tracks here, and the way they have reworked "Bad Moon Risin'" and "Horsehead", along with the inclusion of "South Penn. Waltz", from the EP really makes it special. The sound quality and performance is superb, and David's voice sounds as pure and powerful as on the studio albums. This album rocks!

The next best thing to "being there".......2001-09-05

16 Horsepower may very well be the best live show around today. Onstage, they deliver an intensity that has nothing to do with pyrotechnics or flash of any kind and everything to do with the band's (especially singer/songwriter David Eugene Edwards') vision. The music is at once visceral and diaphanous, smacking you in the gut, then retreating like fog when you turn your head. The ghosts of Appalachia are here, as is the spirit of Leadbelly and any Chatauqua tent preacher. Demons (worldly and otherwise) babble and shriek and tempt, the voice of God is hard to hear and harder to follow, but always just in front and just behind you as you listen. And these polar extremes are always contained within all of us - that is the genius of the message brought home by seeing 16HP live. It's not a unique idea that all people consist of good and evil impulses, but watching Edwards bent over the microphone and banjo or accordion, you FEEL it in the same way that looking at film footage of an earthquake is different from watching the plaster crack in your apartment while you listen to that unbelievable low tearing noise that no truck or train or man-made sound could match.

"Hoarse" is the next best thing to seeing the band live. Though 16 Horsepower have no "hits" in the money-driven, radio sense of the word, this disc is loaded with much of their best material: Brimstone Rock, Black Soul Choir, Low Estate, American Wheeze and others are given full-throttle treatment.

I've also always maintained that you can tell a great deal about a band by whom they choose to cover, and how well they make the songs they cover their own. On "Hoarse", 16 Horsepower prove no less formidable in this respect: versions of songs by Joy Division, The Gun Club, and Creedence Clearwater Revival are indications of the band's diverse influences. And what versions they are! "Bad Moon Rising" is transformed from a major-key uptempo folk-rocker in the hands of Fogerty into a creepy, minor key backwoods warning. Lines like "hope you are quite prepared to die" and "one eye is taken for an eye" have a menacing, this-is-just-around-the-corner feel that sounds like it should have always been there in the song. Frankly, if you look just at the words of the tune, it's easy to imagine 16 Horsepower's terrifying rendition being the music that should have accompanied them in the first place.

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The Classics 1972 Album First Time on CD.

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Watershed and Hoarse
Watershed & Hoarse
Manufacturer: Idol Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Tramp
Family
Pause for a Hoarse Horse
Red E Lewis and Red Caps
In My Time
How Would It Feel?
Bad Days
Mother
Moses
Welwyn Garden City Blues
You're No Good

Album Description

Reissue of this early indie rock group's 1971 debut album. 11 tracks, all mastered using Super Bit Mapping (SBM) technology. Also features the original cover art. 1999 release.

Customer Reviews:

Interesting Curio for AC/DC completists.......2006-01-22

This a modest, sweet, vaguely "Band" sounding recording from the early seventies (1971) perhaps notable for the appearance of Cliff Williams on bass. Some lovely guitar work, solid tunes, good vocals and a dash of mellotron makes this a worthy listen. Soon to be out of print, I expect.