
Lucinda Williams celebrated a birthday earlier this week. I didn't have time to properly acknowledge it then, but I'm going to do so now by paying tribute to her finest work, 1998's Car Wheels on a Gravel Road . I've been thinking about this album quite a bit here lately. I knew it was time to put up another Essential Albums post, and I knew Lucinda's birthday was approaching (She turned 56 on Monday)... but it was a comment from Paul on last week's Sarah Borges post that cemented things. The consensus on [...]