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Secret South is 16 Horsepower
's third full-length studio album. Released in 2000, the album marked a distinct change in direction compared to previous efforts as it focuses more on storytelling over a more laid back soundscape.
16 Horsepower
16 Horsepower was an American alternative country music group based in Denver, Colorado. Their music often invoked religious imagery dealing with conflict, redemption, punishment, and guilt through David Eugene Edwards's lyrics and the heavy use of traditional bluegrass, gospel, and Appalachian...
's third full-length studio album. Released in 2000, the album marked a distinct change in direction compared to previous efforts as it focuses more on storytelling over a more laid back soundscape.
Track listing
- "Clogger" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 3:28
- "Wayfaring Stranger"The Wayfaring Stranger (song)"The Wayfaring Stranger" , Roud 3339, is a well-known American spiritual/folk song likely originating in the early 19th century about a plaintive soul on the journey through life. It became one of Burl Ives's signature songs, included on his 1944 album The Wayfaring Stranger...
(Traditional) – 2:42 - "Cinder Alley" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 4:42
- "Burning Bush" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 3:59
- "Poor Mouth" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 4:39
- "Silver Saddle" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 3:11
- "Praying Arm Lane" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 3:19
- "Splinters" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 5:17
- "Just Like Birds" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 3:42
- "Nobody 'Cept You" (Bob DylanBob DylanBob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
) – 3:34 - "Strawfoot" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 3:30
Personnel
- David Eugene EdwardsDavid Eugene EdwardsDavid Eugene Edwards is an American musician.He is the lead singer of Wovenhand, and also the main songwriter and the principal musician on the recordings of the band. He is the former lead singer of 16 Horsepower...
- Vocals, GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, PianoPianoThe piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
, ConcertinaChemnitzer concertinaA Chemnitzer concertina is a musical instrument of the hand-held bellows-driven free-reed category, sometimes called squeezeboxes. The Chemnitzer concertina is most closely related to the Bandoneón , more distantly to the other concertinas, and accordions.- Physical description :It is roughly... - Steve TaylorSteve Taylor (musician)Steve Taylor is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is currently the keyboardist for Oakland band Rogue Wave, in addition to performing solo locally and internationally...
- Back-up Vocals, GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, OrganOrgan (music)The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with... - Jean-Yves Tola - Drums, Percussion, PianoPianoThe piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
- Pascal Humbert - BassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, Bass Fiddle, GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with... - Asher Edwards - Strings
- Rebecca Vera - Strings
- Elin Palmer - Strings
Trivia
- Although previously recorded by Bob DylanBob DylanBob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
himself, the cover of his song "Nobody 'Cept You" is the first version ever to be included on a full-length studio album. - The recording of the album was engineered by Bob Ferbrache who was once a member of 16 Horsepower, playing lap steel.
- Asher Edwards, daughter of David Eugene EdwardsDavid Eugene EdwardsDavid Eugene Edwards is an American musician.He is the lead singer of Wovenhand, and also the main songwriter and the principal musician on the recordings of the band. He is the former lead singer of 16 Horsepower...
, is featured on the video for the song "Clogger."