Olden is a compilation album by 16 Horsepower

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...

, released July 8, 2003. It would be the last record released by 16 Horsepower before their break-up.

The album is divided into three sections, with each section separated by two short interviews with David Eugene Edwards

David Eugene Edwards

David 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...

, the band's vocalist and lead musician.

The first seven tracks were recorded at the Night Owl Studio in Denver in 1993, and are referred to as the "Night Owl Studio sessions." The next six songs were recorded at Kerr Macy studio in Denver in 1994. The last six songs are live recordings from their session at the Mercury Cafe in Denver in 1994.

Track listing

1. "American Wheeze" – 3:55
2. "Coal Black Horses" – 3:27
3. "Scrawled in Sap" – 2:52
4. "Prison Shoe Romp" – 2:51
5. "I Seen What I Saw" – 2:59
6. "Neck on the New Blade" – 3:08
7. "Interview" – 0:20
8. "South Pennsylvania Waltz" – 4:56
9. "My Narrow Mind" – 4:56
10. "American Wheeze" – 3:40
11. "Shametown" – 2:51
12. "Train Serenade" – 4:20
13. "Strong Man" – 4:36
14. "Interview" – 1:03
15. "Slow Guilt Trot (Live)" – 3:34
16. "Low Estate (Live)" – 3:38
17. "Pure Clob Road (Live)" – 3:01
18. "Heel on the Shovel (Live)" – 2:43
19. "Sac of Religion (Live)" – 3:00
20. "Dead Run (Live)" – 3:10

Mastered: Absinthe Studio, Denver, CO

Produced: 16 Horsepower

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...

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All songs by David Eugene Edwards/16 Horsepower, except track 12 by Keven Soll/16 Horsepower.

Personnel:

David Eugene Edwards

David Eugene Edwards

David 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, bandoneon

Bandoneón

The bandoneón is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay. It plays an essential role in the orquesta típica, the tango orchestra...

, guitars, banjo

Banjo

In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...

Keven Soll - acoustic bass guitar

Acoustic bass guitar

The acoustic bass guitar is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to, though usually somewhat larger than a steel-string acoustic guitar...

, double bass

Double bass

The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

, vocals (on track 12)

Jean-Yves Tola - drums