Track Listing
DISC 1:
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
14. Down the Big Road Blues - (previously unreleased)
15. Out of Touch - (previously unreleased)
16. Still I Long For Your Kiss - (alternate take)
DISC 2:
1. Pineola
2. Something About What Happens When We Talk
3. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
4. Metal Firecracker
5. Right in Time
6. Drunken Angel
7. Greenville
8. Still I Long For Your Kiss
9. 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
10. Can't Let Go
11. Hot Blood
12. Changed the Locks
13. Joy
| Details | | Playing Time: | 123 min. | | Contributing Artists: | Buddy Miller, Charlie Sexton, Emmylou Harris, Jim Lauderdale, Ray Kennedy, Roy Bittan, Steve Earle | | Producer: | Bill Levenson (Compilation), Lucinda Williams, Roy Bittan, The Twangtrust, Twangtrust | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Lucinda Williams (vocals, acoustic guitar, dobro); Buddy Miller (acoustic & electric guitars, mando guitar, background vocals); Steve Earle (acoustic & resonator guitars, harmonica, background vocals); Gurf Morlix (6 & 12 string electric guitars, electric & acoustic slide guitars, background vocals); Charlie Sexton (electric & slide guitars, dobro); Johnny Lee Schell (electric & slide guitars, dobro); Bo Ramsey (electric & slide guitars); Ray Kennedy, Greg Leisz (12 string electric guitar, mandolin); Richard "Hombre" Price (dobro); Roy Bittan (accordion, Hammond B-3 organ, organ); Michael Smotherman (Hammond B-3 organ); John Ciambotti (acoustic & electric basses); Donald Lindley (drums, percussion); Jim Lauderdale, Emmylou Harris (background vocals).
Principally recorded at Room And Board Studio, Nashville, Tennessee.
All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.
CAR WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. "Can't Let Go" was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.
Personnel: Lucinda Williams (acoustic guitar); Emmylou Harris, Jim Lauderdale (vocals); Kenny Vaughn (guitar); Kenny Greenberg, Steve Earle, Buddy Miller (acoustic guitar); Johnny Lee Schell (electric 6-string guitar); Greg Leisz, Gurf Morlix, Ray Kennedy (electric 12-string guitar); Richard 'Hombre' Price, Bo Ramsey, Charlie Sexton (dobro); Gene Elders (fiddle); Roy Bittan (accordion); Ian McLagan (organ); Michael Smotherman (Hammond b-3 organ); Dr. John Ciambotti, Richard Price (bass guitar); Fran Breen, Donald Lindley (drums); Harry Stinson (background vocals).
Recording information: Room & Board, Hermitage, Tennessee; Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1998).
Williams's fans waited a long six years for this album, as Lucinda went through music business hassles and a revolving door of producers. The reward for their patience is an album full of rootsy, heartfelt observations that alternately rock and mourn. CAR WHEELS is full of songs about loss and longing, like "Metal Firecracker," "Drunken Angel" and "I Lost It," but even when she's bemoaning her own lack of happiness on the bluesy "Joy," she lets loose with so much passion that it seems inevitable she'll find her emotional center again.
Produced largely by Steve Earle, CAR WHEELS is immersed in that late-'90s alt-country sound, full of slide guitar, accordion, dobro and other Americana touches. It's a tribute to Williams's unique artistic vision that she distinguishes herself from the No Depression crowd by virtue of her idiosyncratic songwriting. Full of lust, sadness and the occasional glimmer of hope, CAR WHEELS is one small step for Lucinda Williams and one giant leap for those tuned into her wavelength.
Editorial Reviews
Included in Rolling Stone's Essential Recordings of the 90's.
Rolling Stone (05/13/1999)
4.5 Stars (out of 5) - ...Not only is CAR WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD more perfect than the two albums that preceded it...but it achieves its perfection by being more imperfect....not since the openhearted HAPPY WOMAN BLUES has she gotten so much feeling on tape...
Rolling Stone
...Williams has rarely sounded better. And when her voice meets a first-rate song (and some accordions and Dobros), few country-folkies more acutely evoke the elementary highs and lows of daily life... - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (07/10/1998)
...Though the record is replete with stinging melodies, sturdy song structures and rustic, barroom vocal passion, its greatest asset is Williams' stirring lyrics...
CMJ (01/11/1999)
Included in A.P.'s 10 Essential Alt-Country Albums - ...Too diverse for country, too country to be rock - whatever this is, we need more of it.
Alternative Press (03/01/2001)
Ranked #4 on Spin's list of Top 20 Albums of '98.
Spin (01/01/1999)
Ranked #61 in Spin Magazine's 90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.
Spin (09/01/1999)
Ranked # 10 in Rolling Stone's Women in Rock: The 50 Essential Albums - ...It rocks...
Rolling Stone (10/31/2002)
Ranked #31 in Mojo's 100 Modern Classics -- [A] bluesy, rootsy album, its fatalistic pull resonating with anyone who has loved and lost.
Mojo
'Drunken Angel' and 'Can't Let Go' stand out as examples of the rawness of CAR WHEELS intensified as Williams delivers its heartbreak and tumult onstage.
No Depression
Repositioning country-blues roots rock as contemporary Southern art, the album gives us a sense of life and place that leap from every line and guitar lick.
Uncut
4 stars out of 5 -- Her voice has never sounded quite so strong, pure and tormented...
Q
5 stars out of 5 -- [A]n amazing record that sounds like it was casually banged out in a particularly creative weekend. It's steeped in Southern life...
Rolling Stone
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