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“Side of the Road” by Lucinda Williams
From the album Lucinda Williams (1988)
“Side of the Road” by Lucinda Williams appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2001 and 2023. It was first released in 1988 on the album Lucinda Williams. Its best result is #555 on the WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,126 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Lucinda Williams wrote "Side of the Road" alone, words and music, for her self-titled 1988 album, her third, released on Rough Trade. She produced the record with Gurf Morlix and Dusty Wakeman, and Wakeman engineered.
Williams sings lead and strums acoustic guitar, and Morlix is a one-man string section, credited here on acoustic, electric, lap steel, pedal steel and resonator guitars plus mandolin, with John Ciambotti on bass and Jim Lauderdale and Pat Quinn singing backup; fiddle, accordion, harmonica and washboard turn up in the credits too. The album it lives on is an alt-country and roots-rock study of how tangled love can get, and it drew wide critical praise; it has since come to be seen as one of the records that built the Americana movement.
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 | 1031 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2004 | 803 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) | 885 |
| 2020 | 555 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2023 | 684 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s | 850 |
Also listed as: Side Of The Road.
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