Every man's a liar

"God is the one who made me and gave me everything that's good. I'm friends with him most of the time, but he's friends with me all of the time."

-David Eugene Edwards

Over the past few years, my good friend Chris has turned me on to some artists of song whom I owe him greatly for. Most notably would be Bill Mallonee of Vigilantes of Love and David Eugene Edwards of Sixteen Horsepower and Wovenhand. I've recently been enjoying the Sixteen Horsepower DVD titled 16HP. Found on these two discs are videos with haunting imagery, concert footage and interviews. Most revealing is Edwards' interview with Paul Epstein in which he recalls his boyhood travels with his grandfather, a Nazarene preacher, making visits to the ill and attending funerals and weddings of people he didn't know. He also discusses how he connected profoundly to the somber, simple music of the church. During a break in the interview, Edwards shares a couple of intimate performances, first of the old hymn "Wayfaring Stranger" and second, a beautiful rendition of Bob Dylan's "Nobody 'Cept You".