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Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Audio CD

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Lucinda Williams Band: Lucinda Williams
Title: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
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Release Date: 1998-06-30
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 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

Lingers in your mind
Evocative lyrics, melodies that are unexpectedly persistent. . you find yourself thinking about this album when you least expect to. .


Next Stop, Lake Charles
First, on the Hank Williams tribute album, "Timeless", where she did a cover of his classic tale of love's trials and tribulations "Cold, Cold Heart". I first heard the compelling nasally slow draw (in the good sense) voice of Lucinda Williams on tribute albums. I mentioned in a review of that CD that very seldom did anyone cover a Hank Williams song better than he did himself. I noted the exception of Lucinda on that rendition of "Cold, Cold Heart". I also made the same statement on her cover of Mississippi John Hurt's "Angels Laid Him Away" on his tribute album. Finally, I noted the fine job that she did on a duet with John Prine on "Wedding Bells" on his "In Spite Of Ourselves" cover album of country classics.

That said, although I have high, very high regard for Ms. Williams' cover work I am more ambivalent about her own albums. This album under review is such a case. I do not understand what is driving her on some of these songs. She, obviously, can write thoughtfully of love, lost, the cruel nature of the world, her family and other subjects but for the most part that feeling I got from the above-mentioned efforts is missing here. A few do, however, stand out. "Lake Charles" is a masterpiece, "Greenville" is fine and clearly rises to the occasion. .


The title is only ten syllables short of haiku, but as invoking.
It was great then, it's even better now. I bought CWOAGR years ago, listened to it constantly for months, then lost it only to buy again a year or so later. LW's songs become audible snapshots of your life, and this more than any (only the self-titled may rival). So if you listen to this during rough times, be forewarned it will bring it all back even after years. Whenever the powers that be decide to make those top whatever lists, I think car wheels will stand side by side with the giants. Her greatest and one of my favorite albums of all-time. .


Lucinda's Masterpiece

So, here we are, with just a few hours remaining in this weird year called 2008. . what's a decade downstream among friends when it's time to give 10 stars out of a possible 5 in a review?

I'm not exactly sure how I ended up picking this great CD out of the stack on this new years eve, but I did, and was a little surprised that it even plays anymore, considering the hundreds of hours it has spent in the CD players over the years.

At any rate, the record is just a stone cold classic. So much has been said and written about it over the years, that I can't add much more at this point.

Lucinda is one of the greatest living songwriters, and this is by far her absolute best record. David Byrne pretty much captured it when he introduced her on his PBS show "Sessions at West 54th Street" in describing her as too country for rock, and too rock for country.

Car Wheels belongs in every rock or country. . . . I take that back. . . it belongs in every serious music collection. Period. It's a CD you can safely buy without hearing it, so if you haven't, then do so right now. There's not one bad track on this record.


"Sitting and drinking beer in the backyard"
Bought it new and when I go back to listen,(like I did late this summer)it still knocks me out. Great album. By now the previous reviews have mentioned all the qualities of the album, I'll just add that it is perfect for sitting and drinking beer in the backyard.


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