Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

Release Date: June 30, 1998

Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998) weaves country storytelling with rock guitar grit and blues-soaked vocals across thirteen deeply personal songs. Williams' weathered voice carries tales of small Southern towns, lost love, and family ghosts over arrangements that swing from gentle acoustic ballads to electric guitar-driven anthems.

Standout Tracks

• Right In Time: The album opener builds from intimate confession to soaring release
• Car Wheels On A Gravel Road: The title track captures childhood memory with vivid, cinematic detail
• Drunken Angel: A haunting tribute that showcases Williams' gift for melancholy storytelling

Mood: melancholic, driving, introspective, rootsy

Tracklist

1. 1. Right In Time (4:36)
2. 2. Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (4:45)
3. 3. 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (4:42)
4. 4. Drunken Angel (3:20)
5. 5. Concrete And Barbed Wire (3:09)
6. 6. Lake Charles (5:29)
7. 7. Can't Let Go (3:29)
8. 8. I Lost It (3:31)
9. 9. Metal Firecracker (3:31)
10. 10. Greenville (3:24)
11. 11. Still I Long For Your Kiss (4:09)
12. 12. Joy (4:01)
13. 13. Jackson (3:43)