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Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

Lucinda Williams

Album · 1998 · Mercury 314 558 338-2

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is Lucinda Williams’s fifth studio album, released by Mercury on 30 June 1998 (CD 314 558 338-2). It took several attempts to finish: initial sessions in Austin, Texas, with Gurf Morlix in early 1995 were set aside, work resumed in Nashville, and in 1996 Steve Earle and Ray Kennedy recorded new sessions. Basic tracks were cut at Room and Board Studio in Nashville, and Roy Bittan, who took rough mixes to Los Angeles, added organ and accordion to several songs; additional recording was done at Rumbo Studio in Canoga Park, California. Credits list The Twangtrust for the basic tracks, Bittan as producer and Williams as co-producer.

The thirteen songs are Williams’s own, apart from “Can’t Let Go,” written by Randy Weeks, and “Still I Long for Your Kiss,” which she wrote with Duane Jarvis. Johnny Ciambotti plays bass and Donald Lindley drums; the guitarists include Gurf Morlix, Buddy Miller, Charlie Sexton, Bo Ramsey, Johnny Lee Schell and Steve Earle. Jim Lauderdale sings harmony on five songs, Emmylou Harris on “Greenville,” and Buddy Miller on the title song. The album peaked at No. 68 on the Billboard 200, became Williams’s first record certified gold, and won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Right In Time 4:36
  2. 2 Car Wheels On A Gravel Road 4:45
  3. 3 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten 4:42
  4. 4 Drunken Angel 3:20
  5. 5 Concrete And Barbed Wire 3:09
  6. 6 Lake Charles 5:28
  7. 7 Can't Let Go 3:29
  8. 8 I Lost It 3:31
  9. 9 Metal Firecracker 3:31
  10. 10 Greenville 3:24
  11. 11 Still I Long For Your Kiss 4:09
  12. 12 Joy 4:01
  13. 13 Jackson Source Recording Lucinda Williams · key Eb · 76 bpm 3:42

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