“Car Wheels On A Gravel Road” by Lucinda Williams

The title track of Lucinda Williams's 1998 album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is hers from the ground up: she wrote the words and the music and co-produced it. The band around her is a crack roots crew, Gurf Morlix and Buddy Miller on guitars, John Ciambotti on bass and Donald Lindley on drums and percussion, with Miller singing alongside her, and Rick Rubin and Jim Scott handled the mix. It rolls along with an easy, dusty twang, the guitars rattling like a pickup on a back road, and Williams sings it in a worn, slightly cracked drawl that makes every line sound remembered rather than invented.

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