Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (Mercury P2 58838, 1998) is Lucinda Williams's fifth studio album and her critical and commercial breakthrough, co-produced by Williams, Ray Kennedy, and Steve Earle. The cast spans Americana's finest session players: Gurf Morlix (electric guitar, slide), Buddy Miller (acoustic guitar), Charlie Sexton (guitar, dobro), John Ciambotti (bass), Donald Lindley (drums), Jim Lauderdale, and Emmylou Harris on harmony vocals. Its twelve songs, rooted in Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi landscapes from Williams's childhood, established the Americana genre's literary ambitions for a generation and drew comparisons to Flannery O'Connor. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1999 and has since been consistently named among the greatest American albums of the 20th century.
Tracklist
- 1 Right In Time 4:36
- 2 Car Wheels On A Gravel Road 4:45
- 3 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten 4:42
- 4 Drunken Angel 3:20
- 5 Concrete And Barbed Wire 3:09
- 6 Lake Charles 5:28
- 7 Can't Let Go 3:29
- 8 I Lost It 3:31
- 9 Metal Firecracker 3:31
- 10 Greenville 3:24
- 11 Still I Long For Your Kiss 4:09
- 12 Joy 4:01
- 13 Jackson Source Recording 3:42
