Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth 'n' Ashes (1996)

Artist: Sixteen Horsepower
Title: Sackcloth 'n' Ashes
Year Of Release: 1996
Label: A&M Records
Genre: Folk Rock, Alt Rock, Country Rock
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 46:18
Total Size: 120/301 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Title: Sackcloth 'n' Ashes
Year Of Release: 1996
Label: A&M Records
Genre: Folk Rock, Alt Rock, Country Rock
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 46:18
Total Size: 120/301 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:
01. I Seen What I Saw 3:25
02. Black Soul Choir 3:51
03. Haw 3:24
04. Scrawled in Sap 2:48
05. Horse Head 3:03
06. Ruthie Lingle 2:45
07. Harm's Way 3:23
08. Black Bush 3:17
09. Heel on the Shovel 3:12
10. American Wheeze 3:34
11. Red Neck Reel 2:44
12. Prison Shoe Romp 3:13
13. Neck on the New Blade 3:17
14. Strong Man 4:21
Line-up:
Musician, Bass [Stand Up], Acoustic Bass [Flat Top], Cello, Backing Vocals – Keven Soll
Musician, Drums, Backing Vocals – Jean-Yves Tola
Musician, Guest [Special], Fiddle – Gordon Gano
Musician, Vocals, Guitar, Banjo, Bandoneon, Lap Steel Guitar – David Eugene Edwards
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