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| | Sackcloth 'n' Ashes | | | Music Artist : | | Sixteen Horsepower | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Fontana a&M | | Release Date : | | 1996-02-06 | | Store Price : | | $12.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $11.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. I Seen What I Saw
2. Black Soul Choir
3. Scrawled in Sap
4. Horse Head
5. Ruthie Lingle
6. Harm's Way
7. Black Bush
8. Heel on the Shovel
9. American Wheeze
10. Red Neck Reel
11. Prison Shoe Romp
12. Neck on the New Blade
13. Strong Man
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 "Good Drink'n Music"
Submitted on: 2009-04-17 |
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| 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. The lyrics and music are a little eerie--the "christian" thing isn't your Jerry Falwell or Ted Haggerd kind... it's more like a backwoods mystic type--creepy but enjoyable because it is haunting. Sadly, I wasn't introduced to this band until after they had broken up! Would have loved to see them play |
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Whoa!!!!!
Submitted on: 2008-06-23 |
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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 I listened to it & wasn't impressed. While searching through our music collection a couple months ago, I pulled this out, listened and was hooked! My goodness, what a sound! We read that David E. Edwards was raised in a Nazarene household, ran away at age 16 & joined a punk band. You sure can tell from his lyrics. I honestly cannot see this band playing at a mainstream Christian rock festival. His lyrics are too scathing and tortured to be enjoyed by the run-of-the-mill Jesus freak who usually likes his music to reflect his pidgeon-holed religion. If you have friends you'd like to turn on to 16 Horsepower, we'd recommend this album. It sure hooked us!
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Stunning!
Submitted on: 2007-08-18 |
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| 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 instead of aspirin. |
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This is what American music was supposed to sound like
Submitted on: 2007-04-24 |
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| 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 vocals with the same ferocity with which I imagine his grandfather, a traveling Nazarene preacher, must have addressed his flock. I recommend their entire catalog. |
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 Very nice
Submitted on: 2007-01-09 |
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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. |
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