Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
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Artist: Lucinda WilliamsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-10-24
Music Label: Island / Mercury
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- 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
- Down The Big Road Blues
- Out Of Touch
- Still I Long For Your Kiss
- Pineola
- Something About What Happens When We Talk
- Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
- Metal Firecracker
- Right In Time
- Drunken Angel
- Greenville
- Still I Long For Your Kiss
- 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
- Can't Let Go
- Hot Blood
- Changed The Locks
- Joy
Free Music Notes for Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Free Music Review: Coming to full bloom
Hit: 5 Stars
Car Wheels on Gravel Road is the album that found Lucinda Williams coming to full bloom. To some it is even her definite album. It took Lucinda 6 years to produce Car Wheels. Some of it had to do with label difficulties but a lot of it had to do with Williams trying to find her voice, trying to get it perfect, a process that took several producers and found her back at the drawing board a few times. When the album finally came out Lucinda had changed from a mediocre but promising country singer in a majestic butterfly, albeit somewhat raggedy.
Even though the product had been 6 years in the making Car Wheels never sounds forced or overly produced. Instead we find astonishing honest songwriting where the music provides just the right amount of texture. The album paints vivid pictures of her youth, relations gone sour, disappointments and hopes. Lucinda bears her heart open for everyone to see. What her audience gets are no easy or clean-cut pictures, for that her persona is too complex and raggedy. Lucinda Williams can be a sensual angel and a venomous snake at the same time. These contrast shine through on the record and give her music a depth and humanity that a lot of other artists lack. It takes guts to show this level of honesty. Car Wheels rightfully put Lucinda Williams in the league of veterans as Springsteen and Dylan in terms of craftsmanship.
This special edition gives the record the attention it deserves. The added live performances are amazing and show a very different side of Lucinda. Her records are often a carefully produced affair where the music supports the song, her live shows are very often a fuse burning up to a raw explosion. By combining the two this deluxe edition gives a better view of the kind of artist Lucinda is than any best off package ever would. That makes it an excellent starting point for the curious but a joy for long time fans as well.
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This is an amazing album!Six years in the making, Car Wheels somehow lives up to its lofty expectations because of Williams's direct songwriting and her wonderfully unaffected vocals. With assistance from cohorts such as Steve Earle, Williams uses the acoustic accents of Dobros, mandolins, slide guitars, and accordions to add color to her grooves, whispers, and rumbles. Her lyrics are undisguised as she presents to us the travelogue of her memory. We can't wait for 2004! --Marc Greilsamer
Lucinda Williams makes this whole music thing seem so simple: Write in plain language about the people and places that crowd your memory; add subtle flavors of a mandolin here, a Dobro there, perhaps an accordion or slide guitar; above all, sing as honestly and naturally as you can. Of course, it took her six years to achieve this simplicity, an amazing achievement considering the number of knobs that were turned. Her exquisite voice moans and groans and slips and slides--she delivers a polished tone in a coarse manner. On the superb "Concrete and Barbed Wire," soft acoustic guitars are punctuated by electric slide, accordion, mandolin, and Steve Earle's harmony. Williams's deeply personal stories are matched with bluesy rumbles, raunchy grooves, and plaintive whispers. The entire Deep South is reduced to a sleepy small town filled with ex-lovers, dive bars, and endless gravel roads. --Marc Greilsamer
This 1998 Grammy-winning release--Lucinda Williams's popular breakthrough--certainly merits the double-disc "deluxe edition" treatment. And it's hard to find significant fault with anything here: the remastered version of the original album, the second-disc live performance from that year featuring guitarists Kenny Vaughn and Bo Ramsey, and the smattering of outtakes (highlighted by a slower, sadder version of "Out of Touch" than the one Williams ended up releasing). Yet the set misses a glorious opportunity to document one of the more laborious (and notorious) recording projects, one that saw Williams switch cities, studios, and producers three times before she was satisfied with the results. And while the results confirm her judgment, fans would likely find it fascinating to hear a lot more takes from the original Austin sessions (featuring accordion master Flaco Jimenez and keyboardist Ian McLagan) or outtakes from the Nashville sessions with producer Steve Earle, before Williams overhauled the project in Los Angeles with Springsteen keyboardist Roy Bittan. Such a set could have put a revelatory spotlight on the creative process that resulted in an album widely regarded as Williams's masterpiece; instead, this release is more like souvenir snapshots. --Don McLeese
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