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Sackcloth 'n' Ashes
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731454041621
Label: Fontana a&M
Manufacturer: Fontana a&M
MPN: 540416
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Fontana a&M
Release Date: February 06, 1996
Studio: Fontana a&M
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Editorial Review:
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
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 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. I don't get the reviews that title this band as Christian;there are religious references, but not preachy..more searching and tortured {Who among us ex-religious/Christian types aren't tortured in some way?}. The obscure instruments, lyrics and hard driving beat make you want to dance and cry at the same time. My wife heard them on NPR a few years ago,& bought this CD. She claims ... Read More
Rating: - 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. The band that come closest in attitude(-but NOT sound-) is "The Handsome Family", but where the Handsomes plug in Louvin Brothers-style bluegrass, 16 Horsepower adds distorted, Sergio Leone-esqe western- rock soundscapes. Both bands are scary, and must be heard by anyone who ever woke up hungover on Sunday morning and thought of sin and salvation ... Read More
Rating: - 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 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 ... Read More
Rating:  - 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.
Rating: - 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. 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 ... Read More
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