“Jackson” by Lucinda Williams

"Jackson" is a Lucinda Williams original from Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, her fifth studio album, which Mercury put out on June 30, 1998, after sessions in Nashville and in Canoga Park, California, that she co-produced herself.

The playing is all dust and back-porch shade: Steve Earle on acoustic guitar, Gurf Morlix on slide, Johnny Lee Schell on resonator guitar, Roy Bittan squeezing an accordion, John Ciambotti on double bass and Donald Lindley on drums and percussion. Jim Lauderdale sings with Williams, and Rick Rubin and Jim Scott handled the mix. The album around it went on to top the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll for 1998 and take the Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album.

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