On June 30, 1998, “Mercury” label released “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road”, the fifth Lucinda Williams studio album. It was recorded in 1997, at “Room and Board Studio” in Nashville, Tennessee, “Rumbo Studio” in Canoga Park, California, and was produced by Roy Bittan, Steve Earle, Ray Kennedy and Lucinda Williams. “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road: won a “Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album”, and was voted “The Best album of 1998” in The Village Voice’s annual “Pazz & Jop” critics poll.

Personnel:

• Lucinda Williams – vocals, acoustic guitar, dobro guitar
• Gurf Morlix – electric guitar, 12 string electric guitar, electric slide guitar, acoustic slide guitar, harmony vocal
• Buddy Miller – acoustic guitar, mando guitar, electric guitar, harmony vocal
• Ray Kennedy – 12 string electric guitar
• Greg Leisz – 12 string electric guitar, mandolin
• Charlie Sexton – electric guitar, dobro guitar
• Steve Earle – acoustic guitar, harmonica, resonator guitar, harmony vocal
• Johnny Lee Schell – electric guitar, electric slide guitar, dobro guitar
• Bo Ramsey – electric guitar, slide guitar
• Richard “Hombre” Price – dobro guitar
• Roy Bittan – Hammond B3 organ, accordion, organ
• Micheal Smotherman – B-3 organ
• John Ciambotti – bass guitar, upright bass
• Donald Lindley – drums, percussion
• Jim Lauderdale – harmony vocal
• Emmylou Harris – harmony vocal

Track listing:

All tracks by Lucinda Williams except where noted.

1. Right in Time
2. Car Wheels on a Grave Road
3. 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
4. Drunken Angel
5. Concrete and Barbed Wine
6. Lake Charles
7. Can’t Let Go – Randy Weeks
8. I Lost It
9. Metal Firecrackers
10. Greenville
11. Still Looking for Your Kiss – Lucinda Williams, Duane Jarvis
12. Joy
13. Jackson