The Album Review Club - Week #147 - (page 1942) - Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan

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Here's what @bennyboy had to say about the album:-

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.......Lucinda Williams.

My first female pick and one of my favourite albums of all time.

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, released on June 30, 1998, by Mercury Records. The album was recorded and co-produced by Williams in Nashville, Tennessee and Canoga Park, California, and features guest appearances by Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris.
Got into Alt Country through Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris but really got into it in the 90's through Whiskeytown,Wilco and Lucinda.
Then a free cd with the Uncut magazine Sounds of the New West another big influence.
Despite having 4 earlier releases this is the first recording I had heard from Lucinda and have been a huge fan since.
Brilliant live as well.
She has not been in the best of health recently but seems to be recovering so hopefully plenty more music still to come from her.
Story telling up there with the best.
An absolute cracker of a record. She actually made two albums in the early 80’s that passed almost unnoticed, to the point that her 3rd album, the eponymous 1988 release “Lucinda Williams”, was greeted like a debut. I discovered it, and her, purely by chance. I was on a training course with BT in Islington and on a lunch break wandered into Reckless Records, where they were playing it as their album of the week. Loved it and bought it on the spot. ”Passionate Kisses”, which became a hit for Melissa Etheridge (I think), was the only song on it that most people might be familiar with.
She then released “Sweet Old World” in 1992, which escaped me completely, despite regular searches of record store racks in those pre-internet days, and I’d pretty much written her off by the time I walked into the HMV megastore on Oxford Street one day, almost 10 years after “Lucinda Williams”, to find “Car Wheels” on display everywhere. She then appeared on Jools Holland’s “Later” and two more excellent albums, “Essence” and “World Without Tears” followed.
Saw her a couple of times in the early noughties in Shepherd’s Bush, but haven’t bought any more of her albums since. I did have a listen to “West”, but the vocals had morphed too much from ‘distinctive’ to a ‘growl’ for my tastes and I couldn’t get on with it.
She must be pushing 70 now, and has been hugely influential, and Car Wheels was definitely her pinnacle.



 
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She has also done cover versions lps by the Stones,Dylan and Tom Petty if you can find them.
YouTube has a few videos of them.
 
An absolute cracker of a record. She actually made two albums in the early 80’s that passed almost unnoticed, to the point that her 3rd album, the eponymous 1988 release “Lucinda Williams”, was greeted like a debut. I discovered it, and her, purely by chance. I was on a training course with BT in Islington and on a lunch break wandered into Reckless Records, where they were playing it as their album of the week. Loved it and bought it on the spot. ”Passionate Kisses”, which became a hit for Melissa Etheridge (I think), was the only song on it that most people might be familiar with.
She then released “Sweet Old World” in 1992, which escaped me completely, despite regular searches of record store racks in those pre-internet days, and I’d pretty much written her off by the time I walked into the HMV megastore on Oxford Street one day, almost 10 years after “Lucinda Williams”, to find “Car Wheels” on display everywhere. She then appeared on Jools Holland’s “Later” and two more excellent albums, “Essence” and “World Without Tears” followed.
Saw her a couple of times in the early noughties in Shepherd’s Bush, but haven’t bought any more of her albums since. I did have a listen to “West”, but the vocals had morphed too much from ‘distinctive’ to a ‘growl’ for my tastes and I couldn’t get on with it.
She must be pushing 70 now, and has been hugely influential, and Car Wheels was definitely her pinnacle.




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