16 Horsepower was a Denver-based alternative country band revolving around the unique songwriting and singing of David Eugene Edwards. The band made its name with music that combines rural, backwoods kitsch with edgey, off-kilter country-rock.

First teaming with drummer Jean-Yves Tola and bassist Pascal Humbert, Edwards lost the latter when the band relocated to Denver from California and added Keven Soll to the lineup instead. Their eponymous debut album was released in 1995 on A&M Records and was followed a year later by Sackcloth 'N' Ashes, which featured a cameo from Gordon Gano (Violent Femmes) on fiddle. Humbert returned in 1997, with Soll leaving the band and new guitarist Jeffrey Paul Norlander now included in the lineup.

Drafting in PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish to produce the band, Low Estate appeared in early 1998. Secret South followed two years later, but was followed by a well-deserved break from recording. Guitarist Steve Taylor joined before this point when Norlander left the group. The live document Hoarse, released in spring 2001, marked the band's first release for the new millennium. In 2002, the original trio got back together with Taylor and began writing and recording Folklore, which was released that summer through New York indie Jetset.

The band broke up in 2005, citing "mostly political and spiritual" differences. Since summer 2007, David Eugene Edwards and Pascal Humbert are performing 16 Horsepower songs like "American Wheeze" or "Harm's Way" with the band Woven Hand.

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Sackcloth 'n Ashes (1996)

1. I Seen What I Saw
2. Black Soul Choir
3. Haw
4. Scrawled in Sap
5. Horse Head
6. Ruthie Lingle
7. Harm's Way
8. Black Bush
9. Heel on the Shovel
10. American Wheeze
11. Red Neck Reel
12. Prison Shoe Romp
13. Neck on the New Blade
14. Strong Man



Low Estate (1998)

1. Brimstone Rock
2. My Narrow Mind
3. Low Estate
4. For Heaven's Sake
5. Sac of Religion
6. The Denver Grab
7. Ditch Digger
8. Pure Clob Road
9. Phyllis Ruth
10. Black Lung
11. Dead Run
12. Golden Rope
13. Hang My Teeth on Your Door



Secret South (2000)

1. Clogger
2. Wayfaring Stranger
3. Cinder Alley
4. Burning Bush
5. Poor Mouth
6. Silver Saddle
7. Praying Arm Lane
8. Splinters
9. Just Like Birds
10. Nobody 'Cept You
11. Straw Foot



Hoarse (2001)

1. American Wheeze
2. Black Soul Choir
3. Bad Moon Risin'
4. Low Estate
5. For Heaven's Sake
6. Black Lung
7. Horse Head
8. South Pennsylvania Waltz
9. Brimstone Rock
10. Fire Spirit
11. Day of the Lords



Folklore (2002)

1. Hutterite Mile
2. Outlaw Song
3. Blessed Persistence
4. Alone and Forsaken
5. Single Girl
6. Beyond the Pale
7. Horse Head Fiddle
8. Sinnerman
9. Flutter
10. La Robe a Parasol


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