{"product_id":"sixteen-horsepower-sackcloth-n-ashes","title":"Sackcloth \"n\" Ashes","description":"16 Horsepower: David Eugene Edwards (vocals, guitar, banjo, bandoneon, lap steel); Keven Soll (acoustic bass, cello, background vocals); Jean-Yves Tola (drums, background vocals).\nAdditional personnel: Gordon Gano (fiddle).\nRecorded at Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee.\nOn 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.\"","brand":"Sixteen Horsepower","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44598469755113,"sku":"3TOSYS-3HYW-00","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/sixteen-horsepower-sackcloth-n-ashes_IDT9B.jpg?v=1759184211","url":"https:\/\/www.vibinvinyl.com\/products\/sixteen-horsepower-sackcloth-n-ashes","provider":"Vibin' Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}