Sackcloth 'n' Ashes

by Sixteen Horsepower

Type: Album
Released: February 6, 1996
Label: A
Country: United States
Length: 42:48
Community rating: 4.28/5 from 11 ratings

Artists on this release: David Eugene Edwards, Jean-Yves Tola, Keven Soll

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Sixteen Horsepower's debut 'Sackcloth 'n' Ashes' establishes the band's foundational gothic-Americana sound by wedding traditional Appalachian instrumentation with a raw, rock-fueled intensity. David Eugene Edwards's fervent, haunting vocals drive the album, navigating themes of sin, judgment, and redemption with a fire-and-brimstone zeal drawn from an Old Testament perspective. The dynamic arrangements, built upon banjo, upright bass, and the distinctive Chemnitzer concertina, create a sound that is simultaneously antique and aggressively modern, cementing the album as a landmark in the alternative country movement.

Genres

Gothic Country

Descriptors: biblical, spirituality, storytelling, funereal, ancient

Tracklist

Credits

David Eugene Edwards - vocals, banjo, guitar, bandoneon, lap steel guitar, lyrics by
Jean-Yves Tola - drums, backing vocals
Keven Soll - upright bass, flattop acoustic bass, cello, backing vocals
Gordon Gano - fiddle
16 Horsepower - co-producer, music by
Warren Bruleigh - producer, mixed by
Jeff Powell - mixed by, recorded by
Jeff Suhy - a&r
Sunja Park - art direction, design
Jeffrey S. T. - engineer [1st assistant]
Matt Martone - engineer [other assistant]
Pete Matthews - engineer [other assistant]
Skid Mills - engineer [other assistant]
Alan Yoshida - mastered by
Alex Reed - mixed by, producer, recorded by
Michael W. Douglass - mixed by, producer, recorded by
Steve Stewart Management - management
Amy Berg - management [representative]
Keith Carter - photography by