{"product_id":"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).\u003cbr\u003eAdditional personnel: Gordon Gano (fiddle).\u003cbr\u003eRecorded at Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee.\u003cbr\u003eOn 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":"MovieMars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45348521443615,"sku":"600753381588","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7833\/0399\/files\/2f063995a39a983cb34b1b85284efcee_4ebb634d-7df5-4dfe-bffd-1513fff3b0a3.jpg?v=1782040590","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemars.com\/products\/sackcloth-n-ashes","provider":"MovieMars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}