David Eugene Edwards (949 views)

[Rodney Blazershorts]

Range: C2 - E5
Associated Acts: 16 Horsepower (1992-2005), Wovenhand (2001-present)

Significant high notes:
E5: "I Gotta Gal"
E♭5: "Black Lung", "Sac of Religion"
C♯5: "Ditch Digger"
C5: "Just Like a Mexican Love", "Outlaw Song"
B4: "Black Lung", "Ditch Digger", "Just Like a Mexican Love", "Raise Her Hands"
A4: "Iron Feather"
G4: "Corsicana Clip", "Field of Hedon", "His Loyal Love", "A Holy Measure", "Horse Head Fiddle", "Good Shepherd", "I Gotta Gal", "Iron Feather", "The Partisan", "Praying Arm Lane", "The Quiver", "Sac of Religion", "Salome", "South Pennsylvania Waltz", "Strong Man" Kerr Macy Session 1994
F♯4: "Cinder Alley", "Dar He Drone", "Dirty Blue", "Fire Spirit", "Flowers in My Heart", "Getting Ready", "Good Shepherd", "Hiss", "Just Like a Mexican Love", "Kicking Bird", "King David", "Low Estate" Puur, "My Narrow Mind" Kerr Macy Session 1994, "Not One Stone", "Ruthie Lingle", "Salome", "Shametown", "Strong Man", "Worry"
F4: "Ain’t No Sunshine", "All Your Waves", "Black Bush", "Black Lung", "Black Soul Choir", "Blessed Persistence", "Clogger", "Coal Black Horses", "Cohawkin Stone", "Come Brave", "Consecration", "Corsicana Clip", "Dead Run", "Down in Yon Forest", "Golden Rope", "Horse Head", "Horsetail", "King David", "King O King", "Kingdom of Ice", "Not One Stone", "Oil on Panel", "Outlaw Song", "Prison Shoe Romp", "The Quiver", "Sac of Religion", "Shametown", "South Pennsylvania Waltz" Hoarse + Kerr Macy Session 1994, "Splinters", "Swaying Reed", "Whistling Girl" Black of the Ink, "White Bird" Black of the Ink, "White Knuckle Grip", "Your Russia (Without Hands)"
E4: "All Your Waves", "Alone and Forsaken", "Animalitos (Ain’t No Sunshine)", "As Wool", "Black Bush", "Black Soul Choir", "Blue Pail Fever", "Crook and Flail", "Crystal Palace", "Deerskin Doll", "The Denver Grab", "Dirty Blue", "Five by Five", "Go Ye Light", "Golden Blossom", "Good Shepherd", "Haw", "Heel on the Shovel", "The Hired Hand", "A Holy Measure", "Horsetail", "I Seen What I Saw", "Iron Feather", "King O King", "Low Estate" Live in Denver 1994, "Low Twelve", "My Narrow Mind", "Nobody ‘Cept You", "Phyllis Ruth" Live March 2001, "Pure Clob Road", "Raise Her Hands" Live at Roepaen, "Red Neck Reel", "Ruthie Lingle", "Single Girl", "Slow Guilt Trot" Live in Denver 1994, "Sparrow Falls", "Splinters", "Straight-Mouth Stomp", "Swaying Reed", "Terra Haute" Black of the Ink, "White Bird" Black of the Ink, "Winter Shaker", "Your Russia"
E♭4: "24 Hours" Live March 2001, "Bleary Eyed Duty", "Breathtaker", "Crystal Palace", "Glistening Black", "Golden Blossom", "Golden Rope", "The Good Hand", "Hang My Teeth on Your Door", "Harm’s Way" Live March 2001, "Horse Head Fiddle", "I Seen What I Saw", "In the Temple", "The Laughing Stalk", "Lionisis", "Low Estate", "Maize", "My Narrow Mind", "Praying Arm Lane", "The Quiver", "The Refractory", "Scrawled in Sap", "Sparrow Falls", "Story and Pictures", "The Tell", "Terre Haute", "The Threshingfloor", "To Make a Ring", "Train Serenade", "Wayfaring Stranger", "Whistling Girl"

Significant Low Notes
E♭3: "All in the Palm", "Burning Bush", "Consecration", "Elktooth", "Golden Rope, "The Good Hand", "The Hired Hand", "King David", "Orchard Gates", "Raise Her Hands" Live at Roepaen, "Salome", "Sinking Hands", "The Tell", "Wayfaring Stranger", "Whistling Girl" Black of the Ink
D3: "All Your Waves", "Arrowhead", "Bad Moon Rising", "Cinder Alley", "Come Brave", "Coup Stick", "Deerskin Doll", "His Rest", "In the Temple", "King O King", "Kingdom of Ice" Live at Roepaen, "Nobody ‘Cept You", "Outlaw Song", "Shametown", "Poor Mouth" Live March 2001, "Pure Clob Road", "The Speaking Hands" Live at Roepaen, "Story and Pictures" Blush Music, "Swedish Purse", "White Bird", "Winter Shaker", "Wooden Brother", "Worry"
C♯3: "Animalitos (Ain’t No Sunshine)", "Bleary Eyed Duty", "Blessed Persistence", "Cinder Alley", "Down in Yon Forest", "Five by Five", "A Holy Measure", "I Wonder as I Wander", "Iron Feather", "Just Like a Mexican Love", "Kiowa 5", "Parish Chief", "Swedish Purse" Live at Roepaen, "Through the Lattice", "Truth", "Wayfaring Stranger" Live March 2001, "Whitewashed"
C3: "The Beautiful Axe","Behind Your Breath", "Blessed Persistence", "Burning Bush", "Celeste", "Coal Black Horses", "Cohawkin Road", "Coup Stick", "Deerskin Doll", "Helios", "His Rest" Live at Roepaen, "Horsetail", "Hutterite Mile", "Just Like Birds", "Low Estate", "Off the Cuff", "Oil on Panel", "Orchard Gate" Live at Roepaen, "Praying Arm Lane", "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars", "Sinking Hands", "Sinnerman", "The Speaking Hands" Live at Roepaen, "Teach Us to Pray", "Triptych", "Whistling Girl" Live at Roepaen
B2: "As I Went Out One Morning" KEXP Seattle 2009, "Bleary Eyed Duty", "Deerskin Doll" Live at Roepaen, "Glass Eye", "Glistening Black", "Heaven’s Sake", "Hutterite Mile", "Kiowa 5", "Last Fist", "Off the Cuff", "Splinters", "Truly Golden", "Weavers Beam", "White Bird", "Whitewashed", "Worry"
B♭2: "Coal Black Horses", "De-Railed", "The Good Hand", "Horse Head Fiddle", "Howling Flower", "Hyacinth", "I Wonder as I Wander", "Lionisis", "Obdurate Obscura", "Oil on Panel", "Sinnerman", "Slota Prow - Full Armor", "Story and Pictures" Blush Music, "Your Russia"
A2: "Alone and Forsaken", "Beyond the Pale", "Glistening Black", "Heaven’s Sake", "Hyacinth", "Obdurate Obscura", "Story and Pictures", "Wooden Brother"
G♯2: "Cripplegate (Standing on Glass)", "El-Bow", "Howling Flower', "Last Fist", "Silver Saddle" Puur, "Singing Grass", "Tin Finger"
G2: "Aeolian Harp (Under the World)", "Apparition", "Bad Moon Rising", "Chest of Drawers", "Closer", "Cripplegate (Standing on Glass)", "De-Railed", "My Russia (Standing on Hands)", "Silver Saddle", "Teach Us to Pray", "To Make a Ring" Puur, "Wayfaring Stranger" Live March 2001, "Whistling Girl"
F♯2: "Ain’t No Sunshine", "Alone and Forsaken", "Beyond the Pale", "Blue Pail Fever", "Chest of Drawers", "Little Raven/Shun", "Tin Finger", "To Make a Ring" Puur
F2: "Blue Pail Fever", "Celeste", "Obdurate Obscura", "Whitewashed", "Your Russia (Without Hands)"
E2: "Blue Pail Fever", "Closer", "El-Bow", "Elktooth", "Little Raven/Shun", "My Russia"
E♭2: "Aeolian Harp (Under the World)", "His Rest", "Poor Mouth", "Twig" Puur
D2: "Seraph", "Winter Shaker"
C2: "Twig" Puur
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*Blue makes soft falsetto notes
*Underline marks notes in backing vocals.
*Italics mark non-melodic notes.

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{Album Ranges}16 Horsepower
1996: Sackcloth ‘n’ Ashes - F♯3-F♯4
1997: Low Estate - A2-G4-E♭5
2000: Secret South - G2-F♯4-G4
2000: Hoarse - G3-F♯4
2002: Folklore - F♯2-F4-C5
2003: Olden - F♯3-G4
2008: Live March 2001 - G2-E4
Wovenhand
2002: Woven Hand - E2-F4
2003: Blush Music - E♭2-F4
2004: Consider the Birds - F♯2-F4
2006: Mosaic - D2-E2-E4-F♯4
2006: Puur - C2-E♭2-F4-G4
2008: Ten Stones - C3-F♯4-G4-A4
2010: The Threshingfloor - E♭2-G♯2-E4-B4
2011: Black of the Ink EP - B2-F4
2012: Live at Roepaen - B2-E4
2012: The Laughing Stock - E2-G2-F4
2014: Refractory Obdurate - E2-F2-G4
2016: Star Treatment - C♯3-G4
Solo
2018: Risha - (G2-E♭4)
2023: Hyacinth - D2-E♭4

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{Questionable Notes}G♯5: "My Narrow Mind" Kerr Macy Session 1994
F♯5: "Dead Run"
*Both are unmelodic shouts