Name: Sackcloth N Ashes
Brand: VINYL
SKU: 24151410
Price: 43.55 USD
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Sackcloth N Ashes

Rating

Album: Sackcloth N Ashes
#	Song Title		Time
1)	I Seen What I Saw	More Info...	0:03
2)	Black Soul Choir	More Info...	0:04
3)	Scrawled in Sap	More Info...	0:02
4)	Horse Head	More Info...	0:03
5)	Ruthie Lingle	More Info...	0:02
6)	Harm's Way	More Info...	0:03
7)	Black Bush	More Info...	0:03
8)	Heel On the Shovel	More Info...	0:03
9)	American Wheeze	More Info...	0:03
10)	Red Neck Reel	More Info...	0:02
11)	Prison Shoe Romp	More Info...	0:03
12)	Neck On the New Blade	More Info...	0:03
13)	Strong Man	More Info...	0:04

Album: Sackcloth N Ashes
#	Song Title		Time
1)	I Seen What I Saw	More Info...	0:03
2)	Black Soul Choir	More Info...	0:04
3)	Scrawled in Sap	More Info...	0:02
4)	Horse Head	More Info...	0:03
5)	Ruthie Lingle	More Info...	0:02
6)	Harm's Way	More Info...	0:03
7)	Black Bush	More Info...	0:03
8)	Heel On the Shovel	More Info...	0:03
9)	American Wheeze	More Info...	0:03
10)	Red Neck Reel	More Info...	0:02
11)	Prison Shoe Romp	More Info...	0:03
12)	Neck On the New Blade	More Info...	0:03
13)	Strong Man	More Info...	0:04

Performer Notes

16 Horsepower: David Eugene Edwards (vocals, guitar, banjo, bandoneon, lap steel); Keven Soll (acoustic bass, cello, background vocals); Jean-Yves Tola (drums, background vocals).
Additional personnel: Gordon Gano (fiddle).
Recorded at Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee.
On SACKCLOTH 'N' ASHES, 16 Horsepower wade through a murky world of old-time sin and redemption. The band creates a distinctive hillbilly-gothic sound with the help of various vintage and handmade instruments, and songwriter David Eugene Edwards' haunted, atonal vocals. Edwards--who plays, among other things, the bandoneon (an early twentieth century accordion) and the banjo--is backed by the military-style drumming of Jean-Yves Tola, and Keven Soll on a flat-top, acoustic bass. The musical result is one part country, two parts Julee Cruise--particularly on songs such as "Horse Head," which features Edwards' voice in a desolate, lo-fi guise, sounding like a keening Tom Waits in hillbilly country. Thematically, this is darkly religious territory, full of death-related imagery and stern spirituality, set against a finely tuned, grim sense of drama. 16 Horsepower seem to hail from a long-ago era, with a horse-and-buggy vernacular that includes lines like these from "Black Bush": "These are the great dust bowl days/Just take a gander round ya/Everything in a wicked haze."

Professional Reviews

Q (5/97, p.128) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...It's edgy stuff, carved in religious phraseology with God-fearing lyrics to match. A dangerously infectious view of the world."

Option (7-8/96, p.131) - "...this trio's got its country blues down stone cold."