Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Right in Time
2. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
3. 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
4. Drunken Angel
5. Concrete and Barbed Wire
6. Lake Charles
7. Can't Let Go
8. I Lost It
9. Metal Firecracker
10. Greenville
11. Still I Long for Your Kiss [Alternate Version]
12. Joy
13. Jackson
14. Down the Big Road Blues [#][*]
15. Out of Touch [#][*]
16. Still I Long for Your Kiss [Alternate Version][*]

Disc 2:

1. Pineola [Live]
2. Something About What Happens When We Talk [Live]
3. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road [Live]
4. Metal Firecracker [Live]
5. Right in Time [Live]
6. Drunken Angel [Live]
7. Greenville [Live]
8. Still I Long for Your Kiss [Live]
9. 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten [Live]
10. Can't Let Go [Live]
11. Hot Blood [Live]
12. Change the Locks [Live]
13. Joy [Live]
14. Joy [Live]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4188 in Music
• Released on: 2006-10-31
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .36 pounds

From Amazon.com
This 1998 Grammy-winning release--Lucinda Williams's popular breakthrough--certainly merits the double-disc "deluxe edition" treatment. And it's hard to find significant fault with anything here: the remastered version of the original album, the second-disc live performance from that year featuring guitarists Kenny Vaughn and Bo Ramsey, and the smattering of outtakes (highlighted by a slower, sadder version of "Out of Touch" than the one Williams ended up releasing). Yet the set misses a glorious opportunity to document one of the more laborious (and notorious) recording projects, one that saw Williams switch cities, studios, and producers three times before she was satisfied with the results. And while the results confirm her judgment, fans would likely find it fascinating to hear a lot more takes from the original Austin sessions (featuring accordion master Flaco Jimenez and keyboardist Ian McLagan) or outtakes from the Nashville sessions with producer Steve Earle, before Williams overhauled the project in Los Angeles with Springsteen keyboardist Roy Bittan. Such a set could have put a revelatory spotlight on the creative process that resulted in an album widely regarded as Williams's masterpiece; instead, this release is more like souvenir snapshots. --Don McLeese

Customer Reviews

Remastering fantastic! Live bonus CD even better
One of the best albums ever recorded . . . now sounding even better. I was a bit skeptical getting this, mostly buying it for the bonus tracks and live disc -- since I already had the 1998 original.

But the remastering of the Car Wheels on a Gravel Road album itself is fantastic! The clarity of the sound, organic texture, nuances that were left out of the orginal product . . . it's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

Worth buying.