Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is the 1998 album by singer-songwriter and guitarist Lucinda Williams. Williams hit her stride with this recording, which showcases her songwriting at least as much as her singing. As on her other recordings, she captures places and tells people’s stories in her songs, as well as her own take on the perennial topic of love. This recording was issued by Mercury/Polygram Records. It was recorded in Nashville and Canoga Park, California. Lucinda Williams co-produced this album which features a stellar line up of musicians, including guest appearances by Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk album, and was Lucinda's first album to go gold.
Tracks
- Right in Time
- Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
- 2 Kool 2 Be 4-gotten
- Drunken Angel
- Concrete and Barbed Wire
- Lake Charles
- Can’t Let Go
- I Lost It
- Metal Firecracker
- Greenville
- Still I Long For Your Kiss
- Joy
- Jackson
Personnel
- Lucinda Williams: vocals, acoustic guitar, dobro guitar
- Gurf Morlix: electric guitar, 12 string electric guitar, electric slide guitar, harmony vocal, acoustic slide guitar
- John Ciambotti: bass guitar, upright bass
- Donald Lindley: drums, percussion
- Buddy Miller: acoustic guitar, mando guitar, harmony vocal, electric guitar
- Ray Kennedy: 12 string electric guitar
- Greg Leisz: 12 string electric guitar, mandolin
- Roy Bittan: Hammond B3 organ, accordion, organ
- Jim Lauderedale: harmony vocal
- Charlie Sexton: electric guitar, dobro guitar
- Steve Earle: acoustic guitar, harmonica, harmony vocal, resonator guitar
- Johnny Lee Schell: electric guitar, electric slide guitar, dobro guitar
- Bo Ramsey: electric guitar, slide guitar
- Micheal Smotherman: B-3 organ
- Richard “Hombre” Price: dobro guitar
- Emmylou Harris: harmony vocal
