16 Horsepower - Secret South
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Artist: 16 HorsepowerEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-09-12
Music Label: Razor & Tie
Soundtracks:
- Clogger
- Wayfaring Stranger
- Cinder Alley
- Burning Bush
- Poor Mouth
- Silver Saddie
- Praying Arm Lane
- Splinters
- Just Like Birds
- Nobody 'Cept You
- Straw Foot
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Free Music Review: Buy One if You Can Find One
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the best of the 16 Horsepower CDs, and appears, sadly, to be out of print. Grab a copy of this while you still can. This is "Christian" music the way it should be; perhaps the way it used to be in the old-time hymns when life wasn't always so comfortable and death was an everyday reality. Mortality, the human struggle with sin, and hope for a future with God are the themes here. Although 16 Horsepower has broken up, if you enjoy this sound (Country-Goth?), make sure to check out Woven Hand, David Eugene Edwards' current project.
Secret South Poster
The label has changed (Sixteen Horsepower's first two albums, Sackcloth 'n' Ashes and Low Estate appeared on A&M), but, thankfully, little else has. Sixteen Horsepower's palette is still exclusively composed of banjos and accordions, gothic portent and religious foreboding. They still sound like William Faulkner's prose rendered as music, like they belong less in modern music venues and more on a Civil War battlefield, perhaps struggling to be heard through the lifting smoke and screams of the wounded at Antietam. Singer and lyricist David Eugene Edwards continues to straddle the divide between country singer and medicine-show evangelist. In an age when country music has been hijacked by the gormless drones of corporate Nashville and the irony-straitjacketed art students who populate too many alt-country groups, he is a rare and precious reminder of a prior time when country was defined by the holy furies of the Louvin Brothers and Hank Williams. "Burning Bush" and "Praying Arm Lane" might even be the two best things he's written, and the exuberant cover of Bob Dylan's "'Cept You" is surely definitive. Secret South is Sixteen Horsepower's finest hour. --Andrew MuellerCountry Music CDs
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