Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com's Best of 1998
Six years in the making, Car Wheels somehow lives up to its lofty expectations because of Williams's direct songwriting and her wonderfully unaffected vocals. With assistance from cohorts such as Steve Earle, Williams uses the acoustic accents of Dobros, mandolins, slide guitars, and accordions to add color to her grooves, whispers, and rumbles. Her lyrics are undisguised as she presents to us the travelogue of her memory. We can't wait for 2004! --Marc Greilsamer

Amazon.com essential recording
Lucinda Williams makes this whole music thing seem so simple: Write in plain language about the people and places that crowd your memory; add subtle flavors of a mandolin here, a Dobro there, perhaps an accordion or slide guitar; above all, sing as honestly and naturally as you can. Of course, it took her six years to achieve this simplicity, an amazing achievement considering the number of knobs that were turned. Her exquisite voice moans and groans and slips and slides--she delivers a polished... read more

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Music, Lucinda Williams, Alternative Country-Rock, Americana, Contemporary Folk, Folk-Rock, Pop, Popular Music, Rock, Rock/Pop, Singer/Songwriter

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

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