Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

by Lucinda Williams

Overview

Six years in the making, the fifth record from melancholy country-rocker Lucinda Williams proves worth the wait. With songs as searingly intimate as Williams's fans have come to expect, plus haunting instrumental textures and penetrating vocals, Car Wheels has enough meat on its bones to satisfy us until the next Williams project, even if that means holding out for another half decade. Release date: June 1, 1998.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/01/2023
Label:	Island / Mercury
UPC:	0602455961815
Rank:	5448

Tracks

1. Right In Time
2. Car Wheels On a Gravel Road
3. 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
4. Drunken Angel
5. Concrete and Barbed Wire
6. Lake Charles
7. Can't Let Go
8. I Lost It
9. Metal Firecracker
10. Greenville
11. Still I Long For Your Kiss
12. Joy
13. Jackson

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Lucinda Williams   Primary Artist,Guitar,Dobro,Vocals,Guitar (Acoustic)
Jim Lauderdale   Vocals,Guest Artist,Vocal Harmony
Emmylou Harris   Vocals,Guest Artist,Vocal Harmony
Steve Earle   Guitar,Guest Artist,Vocals,Harmonica,Vocal Harmony,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Resonator)
Charlie Sexton   Guest Artist,Guitar,Dobro,Guitar (Electric)
Ray Kennedy   Guest Artist,Guitar (12 String)
Buddy Miller   Guest Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Mando-Guitar,Vocal Harmony,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)
Roy Bittan   Guest Artist,Organ,Accordion,Organ (Hammond)
Gurf Morlix   Guitar,Vocals,Slide Guitar,Guitar (Bass),Guitar (Electric),Guitar (12 String),Guitar (12 String Electric)
John Ciambotti   Double Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Micheal Smotherman   Organ (Hammond)
Donald Lindley   Drums,Percussion
Bo Ramsey   Slide Guitar,Guitar (Electric)
Richard Price   Dobro
Greg Leisz   Mandolin,Guitar (12 String)
Johnny Lee Schell   Dobro,Slide Guitar,Guitar (Electric)

Technical Credits

Twangtrust   Producer
Steve Churchyard   Engineer
Lucinda Williams   Composer,Producer
Randy Weeks   Composer
Margery Greenspan   Artwork
Miller Williams   Photography
Alan Messer   Photography
Birney Imes   Photography
Hank Williams   Mastering
Duane Douglas Jarvis   Composer
Ed Thacker   Engineer
Duane Jarvis   Composer
Roy Bittan   Engineer,Producer
Ray Kennedy   Mixing
Jim Scott   Mixing
Rick Rubin   Mixing
Mattie Delaney   Composer

Editorial Reviews

It may take Lucinda Williams years to deliver new albums, but when they arrive, they're predictably stunning. Arriving six years after Sweet Old World, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is a perfect match of deceptively simple, emotionally stirring lyricism, sturdy songwriting and excellent performances. Often, songwriters write great songs but don't record appropriately gripping versions of the songs themselves. Williams has never suffered from that problem, and Car Wheels on a Gravel Road may be her best set of songs -- and best recording -- to date. It is filled with exceptional songs and gritty, convincing performances that set the album apart from the alt-country contemporaries that have surfaced since her last album. Few of her peers can match her in terms of songwriting or record-making, and Car Wheels on a Gravel Road offers definitive proof. An exceptional record. -- All-Music Guide

Thom Owens