''Sackcloth 'n' Ashes'' is the debut full-length studio album by American band

16 Horsepower 16 Horsepower was an American band based in Denver, Colorado, United States. Their music often invoked religious imagery dealing with conflict, redemption, punishment, and guilt through David Eugene Edwards's lyrics and the heavy use of traditio ...

, released on February 6, 1996.

Track listing

# "I Seen What I Saw" – 3:24 # "Black Soul Choir" – 3:52 # "Scrawled in Sap" – 2:46 # "Horse Head" – 3:01 # "Ruthie Lingle" – 2:44 # "Harm's Way" – 3:20 # "Black Bush" – 3:16 # "Heel on the Shovel" – 3:11 # "American Wheeze" – 3:33 # "Red Neck Reel" – 2:41 # "Prison Shoe Romp" – 3:11 # "Neck on the New Blade" – 3:15 # "Strong Man" – 4:21

Personnel

;16 Horsepower *

David Eugene Edwards David Eugene Edwards (born February 24, 1968 in Englewood, Colorado) is an American musician. He is the lead singer of Wovenhand, and also the main songwriter and the principal musician on the recordings of the band. He is the former lead s ...

– vocals, banjo, guitar, bandoneon, lap steel guitar * Jean-Yves Tola – drums, backing vocals * Keven Soll – upright bass, flattop acoustic bass, cello, backing vocals ;Guest musicians *

Gordon Gano Gordon James Gano (born June 7, 1963) is an American musician widely known as the singer, guitarist and songwriter of American folk punk band Violent Femmes. Early life Gano was born in New York City to actor parents Norman and Faye Gano, and gr ...

– fiddle

Trivia

* The instrument credited as a

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on this album is actually a similar instrument called a

Chemnitzer concertina A Chemnitzer concertina is a musical instrument of the hand-held bellows-driven free-reed category, sometimes called ''squeezeboxes''. The Chemnitzer concertina is most closely related to the bandoneón (German spelling: ''Bandonion''), more ...

. * The album title is a reference to the

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(see

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11:20-21 RSV and

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4:1 RSV). * The songs "Black Soul Choir" and "Haw" were both later made into music videos, both of which featured the band. * The song "Black Soul Choir" was covered by American

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band

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on their 2011 album Beast. * The song "Black Soul Choir" was covered by

Big John Bates Big John Bates is a Canadian singer, guitarist and songwriter. He cofounded and performed in Annihilator, Big John Bates & the Voodoo Dollz and the Noirchestra. Early life John D Bates was born in Toronto and raised in Ottawa, Ontario. Hi ...

: Noirchestra on their 2015 album "From the Bestiary to the Leathering Room".

References

1996 albums 16 Horsepower albums A&M Records albums {{1990s-country-album-stub