Lucinda Williams Announces 20th Anniversary Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Tour

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Lucinda Williams’ Grammy Award-winning album Car Wheels On A Gravel Road. The 1998 album by the famed country, blues and folk singer-songwriter featured the Grammy-nominated hit single “Can’t Let Go” along with guest appearances by Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Don Henley and more. Paste ranked the album #2 on our list of the 50 best alt-country albums of all time, with Paste contributor Tim Basham writing, “The stories in the songs, along with a laconic, southern drawl of rock guitars, serve as the perfect soundtrack to a backroads drive through the South.”

To commemorate this album’s milestone year, Williams will embark on a North American tour where she will play the album in its entirety, followed by another set of various songs from her prolific career. The 12-date, 10-city tour will primarily take place in the Northeast, starting on Nov. 2 in Collingswood, N.J., and concluding on Nov. 17 in Berwyn, Ill. Williams will be backed by her long-time band Buick 6, featuring Butch Norton on drums, David Sutton on bass and Stuart Mathis on guitar.

The 1998 Americana album famously changed producers multiple times, was re-recorded and featured a revolving door of musicians, which all added to the folklore surrounding the record. The LP was named Best Album of 1998 in the Village Voice’s annual Pazz & Jop critics poll and it won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.