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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0731455833829 Label: Island / Mercury Manufacturer: Island / Mercury Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Island / Mercury Release Date: June 30, 1998 Studio: Island / Mercury Sales Rank: 843 MPN: 558338 Disc 1:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com's Best of 1998: Six years in the making, Car Wheels somehow lives up to its lofty expectations because of Williams's direct songwriting and her wonderfully unaffected vocals. With assistance from cohorts such as Steve Earle, Williams uses the acoustic accents of Dobros, mandolins, slide guitars, and accordions to add color to her grooves, whispers, and rumbles. Her lyrics are undisguised as she presents to us the travelogue of her memory. We can't wait for 2004! --Marc Greilsamer Amazon.com essential recording: Lucinda Williams makes this whole music thing seem so simple: Write in plain language about the people and places that crowd your memory; add subtle flavors of a mandolin here, a Dobro there, perhaps an accordion or slide guitar; above all, sing as honestly and naturally as you can. Of course, it took her six years to achieve this simplicity, an amazing achievement considering the number of knobs that were turned. Her exquisite voice moans and groans and slips and slides--she delivers a polished tone in a coarse manner. On the superb "Concrete and Barbed Wire," soft acoustic guitars are punctuated by electric slide, accordion, mandolin, and Steve Earle's harmony. Williams's deeply personal stories are matched with bluesy rumbles, raunchy grooves, and plaintive whispers. The entire Deep South is reduced to a sleepy small town filled with ex-lovers, dive bars, and endless gravel roads. --Marc Greilsamer Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The title is only ten syllables short of haiku, but as invoking.I bought CWOAGR years ago, listened to it constantly for months, then lost it only to buy again a year or so later. It was great then, it's even better now. LW's songs become audible snapshots of your life, and this more than any (only the self-titled may rival). So if you listen to this during rough times, be forewarned it will bring it all back even after years. Whenever the powers that be decide to make those top whatever lists, I think car wheels will stand side by side with the giants.Her ... Read More Rating: - Lucinda's MasterpieceSo, here we are, with just a few hours remaining in this weird year called 2008...what's a decade downstream among friends when it's time to give 10 stars out of a possible 5 in a review? I'm not exactly sure how I ended up picking this great CD out of the stack on this new years eve, but I did, and was a little surprised that it even plays anymore, considering the hundreds of hours it has spent in the CD players over the years. At any rate, the record is just a stone ... Read More Rating: - "Sitting and drinking beer in the backyard"Great album. Bought it new and when I go back to listen,(like I did late this summer)it still knocks me out. By now the previous reviews have mentioned all the qualities of the album, I'll just add that it is perfect for sitting and drinking beer in the backyard. Rating:  - It would be boring if it wasn't so grating.I'm really baffled by the great reviews of this record. Williams' voice is horrible. It's not that her voice is unpolished; Dylan, Steve Earle, and many others pull off less than perfect voices by the strength of their delivery. Williams tries too hard to sound soulful, ending up sounding desperate, grating. The melodies are flat and uninteresting, and the lyrics are uninspired. Skip this and pick up a Steve Earle, or Blue Rodeo CD for some great "American" music. Rating: - Lucinda's BestI own all her cd's...will keep this short Best Lucinda cd out there. But with that said. Only certain people like her style and country drawl, sing through the nose voice (i guess not pretty) But she has so much soul and can write songs with the best of them.... she is special.....I like her voice too....also good musicians Browse for similar items by category:
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