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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
Rating:
Release Date: 2006-10-24
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 [Alternate Version] 12: Joy 13: Jackson 14: Down the Big Road Blues [#][*] 15: Out of Touch [#][*] 16: Still I Long for Your Kiss [Alternate Version][*] 17: Pineola [Live] 18: Something About What Happens When We Talk [Live] 19: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road [Live] 20: Metal Firecracker [Live] 21: Right in Time [Live] 22: Drunken Angel [Live] 23: Greenville [Live] 24: Still I Long for Your Kiss [Live] 25: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten [Live] 26: Can't Let Go [Live] 27: Hot Blood [Live] 28: Change the Locks [Live] 29: Joy [Live] 30: Joy [Live]

Superb
Then, one must consider her performance artistry. Lucinda Williams is most likely the best song writer in America today. She is simply awesome. If you seek "road music", look no farther. Put this CD on, then go. Keep playing it and enjoy the depth of artistry as you delve deeper into each cut. Hours of road will pass with sweet Lucinda. Do understand that she will change music motifs as well. This is not boring one style stuff.


Lucinda Williams "Car Wheel on a Gravel Road" CD
5 star rating and called it a "MASTERPIECE". SIMPLY OUTSTANDING!!! Rolling Stone gave it a 4. SPIN Magazine called it "This year's best Album" (I think it was released in 1998). and the 41st Grammy's gave Lucinda a "Grammy Award" for it. I know its great music, the songs contains stories, and most of them are abount my State - Louisiana and my region of the country (the mid south). So, I can really relate to these songs.

Lucinda is originally from Lake Charles, Louisiana.

However, this music and the stories in it are so good, it really doesn't matter what part of the country or world you're from, you'll be able to relate to the themes and stories. Lucinda is a "master" "Story Teller".
Elvis Costello, has called her the closest living "Counter part" to Hank William.

It consists of 13 great songs:
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 Firecraker
10. Greenville (Mississippi)
11. Still I long for Your Kiss
12. Joy
13. Jackson (Mississippi)

This if a great one, and I highly recommend it!!! Thanks for reading my review, and may God Bless, thanks!!!.


Still I long for more Lucinda
There's something about hearing Lucinda perform that song live that brings out an intensity that a studio-recorded version of this song just can't re-produce. Although we already own 'Car Wheels on a Gravel Road' by Lucinda Williams and love that album dearly, I would have to say that owning this bonus album with a 2nd live performance CD is a MUST have!

Not only do you get awesome quality in the re-mastered tracks, but you also get a live concert performance by Lucinda that is awesome to listen to!

To date, the 2nd CD performance of 'Change the Locks' is my favorite recorded version of that song which I have longed for for quite some time.

To all of you Lucinda fans that crave, and just can't get enough - this CD set comes close! There isn't anything that can compare to hearing her live, but this CD set comes close. Highly very highly recommended!!.


Deluxe in every way
The set, which combines a remastered version of the original album and live cuts from her performance at Penn's Landing during the WXPN Singer Songwriter Festival, is a collector's dream. Lucinda Williams may be notoriously slow in releasing albums, but such laborious love for her craft is evident in her choice to reissue Car Wheels on a Gravel Road as part of a new deluxe edition set. Outtakes and new versions of favorite tunes done live make the investment worthwhile. As always, however, Williams own gravelly, soulful tone combined with realistic lyrics ("conversation with you was like a drug. . . /cause there's something about what happens when we talk") easily remind us of our faults, our successes and why we love her in the first place. She could be us, singing about the troubles in life without bemoaning them or harping too long on the choices that brought them. Her musical gestures resonate similarly--perfect chords, never a note too long or inappropriately placed. Beautiful tone combined with the hearty ability of this songstress lulls you into retrospective bliss. This double CD set can bring you up, remind you why you're down and can easily please a crowd of diverse fans.


Great Concert in South Philly
Southern Culture on the Skids were just finishing, but we were there to see the sometime associate of Steve Earle, who my friend adored. Up from DC to visit a woman I'd just started dating and she suggested going to the WXPN free festival being held right along the Delaware.

The next act was nothing short of revelatory. The guitars dueled to incredible intensity, the songs were simply brilliant, and I was completely enamored by the singer in jeans and cowboy hat. My friend was a little put out by my rapt attention, but I just couldn't help it. Lucinda Williams was performing the most magical show I had seen in more than a decade.

I went from zero to all of her stuff within a couple of days and caught a few more shows up through Essence. During that stretch, I know of no stronger composer and performer; and her rendition of Masters of War was enough to make you want to take to the streets.

Anyway, great album, great show, great artist in her prime. You'd be hard pressed to do better.

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