Track listing

1. "I Seen What I Saw" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 3:24
2. "Black Soul Choir" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 3:52
3. "Haw" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 3:29
4. "Scrawled in Sap" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 2:46
5. "Horse Head" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 3:01
6. "Ruthie Lingle" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 2:44
7. "Harm's Way" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 3:20
8. "Black Bush" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 3:16
9. "Heel on the Shovel" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 3:11
10. "American Wheeze" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 3:33
11. "Red Neck Reel" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 2:41
12. "Prison Shoe Romp" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 3:11
13. "Neck on the New Blade" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 3:15
14. "Strong Man" (Edwards/16 Horsepower) – 4:21

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, 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...
  
  , Guitar
  Guitar
  The 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...
  
  , 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...
  
  , Lap steel
• Jean-Yves Tola - Drums, Backup vocals
• Keven Soll - Stand up bass, Flat top acoustic bass, Cello, Backup vocals
• Guest: Gordon Gano
  Gordon Gano
  Gordon James Gano is an American musician. He is best known for being the singer, guitarist and songwriter of American alternative rock band Violent Femmes.-Early life:...
  
   - Fiddle

Trivia

• The instrument credited as a 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...
  
   on this album is actually a similar instrument called a Chemnitzer concertina
  Chemnitzer concertina
  A 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...
  
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• The album title is a reference to the Holy Bible (see Matthew
  Gospel of Matthew
  The Gospel According to Matthew is one of the four canonical gospels, one of the three synoptic gospels, and the first book of the New Testament. It tells of the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth...
  
   11:20-21 RSV and Esther
  Book of Esther
  The Book of Esther is a book in the Ketuvim , the third section of the Jewish Tanakh and is part of the Christian Old Testament. The Book of Esther or the Megillah is the basis for the Jewish celebration of Purim...
  
  4:1 RSV).
• The songs "Black Soul Choir" and "Haw" were both later made into music videos, both of which featured the band.