The Album Club: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road by Lucinda Williams
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Mon, 11 Aug, 2025 at 06:00 pm
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329 Hardy St, Hattiesburg, MS, United States, Mississippi 39401 | Hattiesburg, MS
It took three torturous years to finish, but it was worth it; there are no bad songs on this alt-country masterwork. The title track is one of Williams’ best: Over guitars that owe more to the Stones than to the Opry, she tells a story about the rootlessness of American life. Williams, who was born in Louisiana, describes the South in a loving, fearful tone (“Broken down shacks, engine parts” in one song, “Busted-down doors and borrowed cash” in another) and mourns pals who fell prey to hard liquor, drugs, or dreams of stardom. With production help from Roy Bittan of the E Street Band and a lot of twangy power chords, Williams rocks hard enough to give these troubled songs both dignity and a feeling of release. - Rolling Stone
