It took Lucinda Williams six years and three producers to make her best album, an amazing record that sounds like it was casually banged out in a particularly creative weekend. It's steeped in Southern life, from song titles like "Lake Charles" to ...more
The Daily Vault Album Reviews
All it takes is one song off of one album for a discriminate listener to broaden their musical palate. The hypocritical phrase, "I'm open minded, but I would never buy a (insert your most hated genre) record," has crossed many people's lips, ...more
Entertainment Weekly
Like many a songwriter, Lucinda Williams is a sucker for American gothic --backwater Southern towns, two-lane country highways, wasted blue-collar lives. Williams? "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" is a veritable jambalaya of such scenarios -- from ...more
All Music Guide
It isn't surprising that Lucinda Williams' level of craft takes time to assemble, but the six-year wait betweenSweet Old Worldand its 1998 follow-up,Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, still raised eyebrows. The delay stemmed both from label difficulties ...more
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