Unfortunately it looks like Amazon MP3 has everything by 16 Horsepower except for the album this song is on. Furthermore, the album seems to be entirely out of print on Amazon. So, I'm linking to one of their earlier albums which feature American Wheeze and Black Soul Choir, two other songs by this band that I like a lot.

This is, I think, the ultimate outlaw song. I almost went on for a paragraph giving amazing credit to singer David Eugene Edwards for writing such an awesome song, but a quick glance on Wikipedia reveals this to be a traditional folk song! I did not know that. The rest of the internet attributes it to 16 Horsepower, so who knows.

But, to give proper credit to David Eugene Edwards, I think his voice defines this song's awesomeness. He sounds like a regular joe, maybe a little scrawny and filthy, venturing out in the west somewhere. He probably doesn't look like much, but he's good with a gun and he has no conscience. When the law comes upon him, he does what he has to, and Edwards voice conveys that, I think, it becomes powerful when the character in the song becomes powerful. His accent is probably fake (being that he's from Colorado) but I really don't give a shit because it sounds awesome in this song.

Anyway, this song is bad ass.

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