Matt and Andrew's CD a Day project

Hey, I figure if you're going to listen to something on Independence Day, listen to something that's unmistakably, quintessentially American. So I pulled this one out. I don't remember where I first heard 16 Horsepower, probably the old SPI. These guys are from Denver and are kind of like Cross Canadian Ragweed if CCR grew up in the Appalachians without any electricity. They combine weird backwoods, fire-and-brimstone lyrics and instrumentation with red-dirt sounding songs. The effect is strange, to say the least; it sounds like the town band in a little inbred village that everybody forgot about 100 years ago.
The dude from the Violent Femmes guest-stars on it, too, which makes more sense than you'd think.