Song · Lucinda Williams
“Joy” by Lucinda Williams
From the album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998)
“Joy” by Lucinda Williams appears on 10 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2001 and 2024. It was first released in 1998 on the album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Its best result is #32 on the WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #574 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Joy" rides along on Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, the fifth studio album Lucinda Williams released through Mercury on June 30, 1998, a record she co-produced herself and cut between Nashville and Canoga Park, California. She wrote the song alone and sings it, and the band behind her is loaded with electric guitars: Gurf Morlix, Bo Ramsey and Johnny Lee Schell all plugged in, with Steve Earle adding resonator guitar, John Ciambotti on bass and Donald Lindley on drums and percussion. Rick Rubin and Jim Scott mixed it.
The album around it was voted the best of 1998 in the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop poll and won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album, but with that many guitarists in the room, "Joy" is where the record shows its rock-and-roll teeth.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1377 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2009 | 123 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Essential Songs | 913 |
| 2009 | 32 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) | 885 |
| 2010 | 700 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010) | 885 |
| 2016 | 207 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 | 913 |
| 2019 | 344 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 344 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2022 | 589 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
| 2023 | 423 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2024 | 462 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
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