Description
Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road / Mercury CD Audio 1998
UPC 731455833829
Made in EU
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, released on June 30, 1998, by Mercury Records. The album was recorded and co-produced by Williams in Nashville, Tennessee and Canoga Park, California, and features guest appearances by Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris.
Universally acclaimed by critics, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road was voted as the best album of 1998 in The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll, and ranked No. 98 on the 2020 revision of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1999, and earned Williams' an additional nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for the single "Can't Let Go". The album peaked at No. 68 on the Billboard 200, and remained on the chart for over five months, eventually becoming Williams' first album to be certified Gold by the RIAA. It remains Williams' best-selling album to date, with 872,000 copies sold in the US alone, as of October 2014. Additionally, it was certified Silver in the UK on July 22, 2013.
Tracklist:
| 1 | Right In Time
Written-By – Lucinda Williams
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| 2 | Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Written-By – Lucinda Williams
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| 3 | 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Written-By – Lucinda Williams
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| 4 | Drunken Angel
Written-By – Lucinda Williams
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| 5 | Concrete And Barbed Wire
Written-By – Lucinda Williams
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| 6 | Lake Charles
Written-By – Lucinda Williams
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| 7 | Can't Let Go
Written-By – Randy Weeks
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| 8 | I Lost It
Written-By – Lucinda Williams
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| 9 | Metal Firecracker
Written-By – Lucinda Williams
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| 10 | Greenville
Written-By – Lucinda Williams
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| 11 | Still I Long For Your Kiss
Written-By – Duane Jarvis, Lucinda Williams
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| 12 | Joy
Written-By – Lucinda Williams
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| 13 | Jackson
Written-By – Lucinda Williams
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- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Mercury Records
- Copyright © – Mercury Records
- Record Company – PolyGram
- Recorded At – Room & Board Recording
- Recorded At – Rumbo Recorders
- Accordion – Roy Bittan (tracks: 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13)
- Acoustic Guitar – Buddy Miller (tracks: 1, 10, 11), Gurf Morlix (tracks: 13), Lucinda Williams (tracks: 2, 5), Steve Earle (tracks: 4, 5, 8, 9, 13)
- Art Direction – Margery Greenspan
- Bass – John Ciambotti*
- Design – Jeffdidthis
- Dobro – Charlie Sexton (tracks: 6), Johnny Lee Schell (tracks: 13), Lucinda Williams (tracks: 7), Richard Price (2) (tracks: 10)
- Drums, Percussion – Donald Lindley
- Electric Guitar – Bo Ramsey (tracks: 7, 12), Buddy Miller (tracks: 6, 8), Charlie Sexton (tracks: 3, 8, 10), Gurf Morlix (tracks: 1 to 3, 7, 9, 12), Johnny Lee Schell (tracks: 4, 5, 7, 11, 12)
- Electric Guitar [12 Strings] – Greg Leisz (tracks: 1), Gurf Morlix (tracks: 4), Ray Kennedy (2) (tracks: 1)
- Engineer [Additional Recordings] – Ed Thacker, Steve Churchyard
- Harmonica – Steve Earle (tracks: 4)
- Mandoguitar – Buddy Miller (tracks: 2, 10)
- Mandolin – Greg Leisz (tracks: 5)
- Mastered By – Hank Williams (2)
- Mixed By – Jim Scott (tracks: 1 to 8, 10 to 13), Ray Kennedy (2) (tracks: 9), Rick Rubin (tracks: 1 to 8, 10 to 13)
- Organ – Micheal Smotherman (tracks: 9), Roy Bittan (tracks: 1, 3, 4)
- Photography [Back Cover Booklet] – Miller Williams
- Photography [Cover] – Birney Imes
- Photography [Inlay] – Shelby Lee Adams
- Photography [Inside Inlay] – Alan Messer
- Producer – The Twangtrust
- Recorded By [Additional], Producer – Roy Bittan
- Resonator Guitar – Steve Earle (tracks: 12)
- Vocals – Buddy Miller (tracks: 2), Emmylou Harris (tracks: 10), Gurf Morlix (tracks: 9), Jim Lauderdale (tracks: 1, 4, 6, 8, 13), Steve Earle (tracks: 5)
- Vocals, Producer – Lucinda Williams
Very similar to Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road and Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road but with a different matrix
Jewel case with a clear tray. 8-page booklet including lyrics.
- Barcode (text): 7 31455 83382 9
- Matrix / Runout: 731455833829 AF0658901
- Mastering SID Code: IFPI L574
- Mould SID Code: IFPI 9704
- Rights Society: BIEM / MCPS
- Label Code: LC 0268
- Price Code: PY900
