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16 Horsepower, Sixteen Horsepower
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  • Audio CD (February 6, 1996)
  • Original Release Date: February 6, 1996
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Fontana a&M
  • ASIN: B000002G47
  • Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #13,771 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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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
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32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars You've never heard ANYTHING like this!, June 10, 2000
By "jovaldo" (Alabama, USA) - See all my reviews
16 Horsepower is shattering all types ofboundries. Musically, they are one of the most original bands to comeout in the 1990s. Lyrically most people aren't willing to touch these themes with such honesty.

16 Horsepower's main component is singer & multi-instrumentalist David Eugene Edwards (who also writes the lyrics.) Edwards plays banjo, guitar, accordian, hurdy-gurdy and probably some other stuff. The other members play bass & drums. These songs deal with religious conviction, temptation, wrestling with one's dark side, hope, and basically the torments of a man looking towards heaven but trapped in an earthly body. The creaky, vintage instruments Edwards uses are the perfect vehicle for his message. And with such a wide range of instrumentation the sounds are extremely varied. Everything from knee-slapping bluegrass to dark, jangly guitars to grinding accordian to old-timey country tinged rock music.

This is their first full length album. The two since then "Low Estate" (also available in the USA) & "Secret South" ... are even more amazing because extra members have been added and the sound expanded even more.

"Sackcloth & Ashes" contains the song "Black Soul Choir," which is the one thing even resembling a hit that the group has had. Its an incredible, hard-driving bluegrass-type tune about man's vanity in this world. Pretty intense stuff.

Open, honest, longing and intense are the best ways to sum up 16HP, and they are well worth getting into.

If you ever have the chance to see them live: RUN don't walk to buy a ticket! They are even better live. END

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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully Creepy, August 15, 2002
By Richard M. Affleck (Lake Hopatcong, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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I love the description that another reviewer gave this album: Appalachian Gothic. With it's "roots" instrumentation and off-kilter lyrics, Sackcloth and Ashes is the dark side of "Oh, Brother Whereart Thou", invoking a strange and brooding "South" of hidden hollows and watchful people, a place that would be familiar to William Faulkner, not to mention Mulder and Scully. The music's not religious, not in the church goin' sense, but rather plays with themes of sin and redemption, heaven and hell, good and evil, that are such a part of the American past--and present. If you're open to travelling to a strange place, you could do much worse than Sixteen Horsepower.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Truly Creepy Graveyard Rock, May 7, 1999
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This is some seriously eerie stuff... it has a Christian bent to it (and I'll freely admit, I'm no fan of Christianity - in fact, I'm a black metal freak), but it's so full of the chill of death and so evocative that few forms of music weave a darker atmosphere than Sixteen Horsepower's. All of their albums are must-gets, but "Sackcloth" is the best. This rates up there with Skip James's blues music as music to scare the heck out of yourself with at 3 a.m. in a darkened room. The Appalachian music style blends well with backcountry rock and the darkness of the lyrics becomes deeper and more haunting with every listen. If you're into goth, blues, Type O Negative-type "metal" (although this is anything but metal), or anything else *strange* and have an open mind for things that are more than a bit different, you're gonna have a hard time pryin' this puppy out of your CD player. It's albums like this that make me glad that CD's don't wear out so easily. Very well thought-out - definitely not the typical "flavor of the month" stuff - and the lyrics have literary value, with powerful imagery. This has staying power. Beautiful. Chilling. And it still manages to kick butt. Snag it already...
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5.0 out of 5 stars "Good Drink'n Music"
An ex introduced me to Sixteen Horsepower. He called it "good drink'n music" and it really is! Stayed in my cd player for months and I spent many a night painting and drinking... Read more
Published 9 months ago by watchthelightdie

5.0 out of 5 stars Whoa!!!!!
We've almost worn out the cd player with this one....the only music I've heard in a long time that never gets old. Read more
Published 19 months ago by N. R. Nielsen

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning!
Unlike many of the "Gothic Country" crowd, 16 Horsepower actually seem to believe the lyrics they sing, giving it a power that virtually all their peers lack. Read more
Published on August 18, 2007 by Stephen Hancock

5.0 out of 5 stars This is what American music was supposed to sound like
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... Read more
Published on April 24, 2007 by Gert Schmitt

4.0 out of 5 stars Very nice
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.
Published on January 9, 2007 by The Kentucky Kid

5.0 out of 5 stars Bandoneon?
I think I'd have to look up the spelling which I wont since this is a music review and not a written' review. Read more
Published on January 16, 2005 by Jonathan W. Williams

5.0 out of 5 stars Unique in Every Way
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. Read more
Published on November 1, 2004 by Kaiser Sose

5.0 out of 5 stars Like Swans with some rattlesnakes in hand
Very impressed with this band. Every song a heady brew. Dusty hangin'-time music. The dark side of gospel, for sure. Read more
Published on August 18, 2004 by Noel Pratt

5.0 out of 5 stars The original & best 16 HP
I saw 16 Horsepower play many bars & clubs, many times, back in Denver during the 1990s. During that time -- when the songs on this album were perfected in front of... Read more
Published on June 3, 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Comparisons fail
Brooding lyrics that make you dance...lyrics about God that you'd never hear in church...end-times music with a bit of heaven thrown in... Read more
Published on April 16, 2004

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