Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
by Lucinda Williams
- Type: Album
- Released: 30 June 1998
- Label: Mercury
- Country: United States
- Length: 51:47
- Community rating: 4.1/5 from 7 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A deeply poetic, long-gestating triumph of Americana and alt-country, 'Car Wheels on a Gravel Road' flawlessly balances Southern roots rock with highly passionate singer-songwriter intimacy. Lucinda Williams delivers incredibly warm, bittersweet, and evocative narratives of pastoral life and heartbreak.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, acoustic, storytelling, dusty, breakup, folk, confessional, guitars, ballad
Tracklist
- Right In Time (4:36)
- Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (4:44)
- 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (4:42)
- Drunken Angel (3:20)
- Concrete And Barbed Wire (3:08)
- Lake Charles (5:27)
- Can't Let Go (3:28)
- I Lost It (3:31)
- Metal Firecracker (3:30)
- Greenville (3:23)
- Still I Long For Your Kiss (4:09)
- Joy (4:01)
- Jackson (3:42)
Credits
- Lucinda Williams - primary artist, acoustic guitar, vocals, co-producer, written-by, dobro
- Roy Bittan - accordion, organ, recorded by [additional], producer
- Buddy Miller - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandoguitar, vocals
- Steve Earle - acoustic guitar, harmonica, vocals, resonator guitar
- Margery Greenspan - art direction
- Johnny Ciambotti - bass
- Frank Riley - booking
- Monterey Peninsula Artists - booking
- Jeffdidthis - design
- Donald Lindley - drums, percussion
- Bo Ramsey - electric guitar
- Charlie Sexton - electric guitar, dobro
- Gurf Morlix - electric guitar, electric guitar [12 strings], vocals, acoustic guitar
- Johnny Lee Schell - electric guitar, dobro
- Ed Thacker - engineer [additional recordings]
- Steve Churchyard - engineer [additional recordings]
- Rosemary Carroll - legal [legal representation]
- Frank Callari - management
- Frank Callari Corporation - management
- O'Neil Hagaman, PLLC - management [business]
- Hank Williams - mastered by
- Jim Scott - mixed by
- Rick Rubin - mixed by
- Miller Williams - photography by [back cover booklet]
- Birney Imes - photography by [cover]
- Shelby Lee Adams - photography by [inlay]
- Alan Messer - photography by [inside inlay]
- The Twangtrust - producer [basic tracks]
- Jim Lauderdale - vocals
- Duane Jarvis - written-by
- Randy Weeks - written-by
- Greg Leisz - electric guitar [12 strings], mandolin
- Ray Kennedy - electric guitar [12 strings], mixed by
- Micheal Smotherman - organ
- Richard Price - dobro
- Emmylou Harris - vocals