Folklore does create some confusion. Keyboard player and guitarist Steven Taylor has left the band and the remaining three 16 Horsepower members have promptly banned loud guitars from their new album. Only a few weeks after David Eugene Edwards' solo project Woven Hand the fourth album of the h.p.'s is released. For Folklore 16 Horsepower has picked four original compositions and six pieces of work by unfamiliar authors of music.

This second Glitterhouse album almost works like an interlude, an MTV-Unplugged album, a compilation of favourite songs. Folklore presents itself as a step in a new direction. But where does this journey lead? That question is answered by the two Frenchmen and Denver's unyielding son with a lot of acoustics, country and sound experiments.

"In the dream my gray horse spoke to me. Find me neath the killing cliff. Hang my skull on the old larch tree. Carve from its wood a two string fiddle. Cover over with the skin of my face. String my hair down the neck in place" (#7 "horse head fiddle"). The songs that the American band exiles to the album are mysterious. "Horse head fiddle" has a very archaic effect because of the super low and dampish background noise (an accordion?) and the stanza. The traditional appeals to primitive instincts and unfolds like a message form times long forgotten. The trio asks questions, even when, like in #8 "sinnerman" the traditional seems to give an answer. The "run to the lord" is drowned by the restless rambling of the sinners.