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[[File:16hp.jpg|framethumb|350px|[https://web.archive.org/web/20120212084938/http://www.16horsepower.com/brussels0902promo1.html Ca. 2002.]]]
 
{{quote|''Come and sing us down,<br />
''give our conscience a poundin'.<br />
''Come an' shake our ground, Lord,<br />
''with the sound of Heaven's houndin'.''|"Clogger"}}
 
Picture in your mind: In some forsaken corner of the American West, under a sky black with storm clouds, a man rides across the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. He has a gun on his hip and a Bible in his saddlebag. He's pushing his horse to its absolute limit, but it's not clear why he's in such a hurry--whether he's the pursuer or the pursued, fleeing the law or [[God]] himself.
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* Pascal Humbert: bass, guitar, vocals
 
{{discography}}
Albums:
* ''16 Horsepower EP'' (1995)
* ''Sackcloth 'n' Ashes'' (1996)
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* ''Folklore'' (2002)
* ''Olden'' (2003): A compilation of the band's early demos.
* ''Live March 2001'' (2008): [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Another live album.]]
 
Post breakup, David Eugene Edwards focused on his musical project [[Woven Hand]] (which has become a [[Spiritual Successor]] to 16HP). Pascal Humbert started the band Lilium with help from Jean-Yves Tola, then Pascal joined Woven Hand in 2007.
 
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=== Provides examples of: ===
* [[Album Title Drop]]: On ''Secret South''.
* [[Bawdy Song]]: "Ruthie Lingle" and "Hang My Teeth on Your Door". Incidentally the latter is one of the few 16HP songs not penned by DEE.
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* [[Cover Album]]: ''Folklore'' only had two original songs. The rest of the tracks are covers of [[Hank Williams]], the Carter Family, and various traditional songs (American, French, Hungarian, Tuvan, etc.).
* [[Drone of Dread]]: When Edwards breaks out his squeezebox, the song will either be even more ominous than 16HP's usual fare, [[Inverted Trope|or it will be the most upbeat song on the entire album]].
* [[Face of the Band]]: David Eugene Edwards. [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20101213090146/http://16horsepower.com/loladamusica.html A Netherlands TV documentary], ostensibly about the band, focused on DEE's home life and never gave the other members a single chance to speak.
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: DEE's lyrics hew very close to [[The Bible]], so God is portrayed as both supremely good and (per fan consensus) scary as hell.
* [[A Good Name for Aa Rock Band]]: It's a reference to a folk song: the coffin of a beloved being borne to the grave by sixteen horses. For a very brief period, their name was just Horsepower--they changed because too many people thought it was a drug reference.
* [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]]: [[Goth Rock]] meets [[Country Music]].
* [[Reviewer Stock Phrases]]: Did you know that David Eugene Edwards is the grandson of a fire-and-brimstone Nazarene preacher? Good luck finding a 16HP album review that doesn't bring it up.
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Musicians]]
[[Category:Sixteen Horsepower]]
[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:16 Horsepower]]