Lucinda Williams’ Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, a record that made nearly everyone’s top ten the year it came out, is being reissued on October 24, 2006 and given the deluxe treatment.
Augmenting the original album on Disc One are two outtakes from the album’s initial 1995 Austin sessions — the Williams original “Out Of Touch” (which she would re-record for 2001’s “Essence”) and a stripped-down reading of the 1920s blues classic “Down The Big Road Blues” — and the alternate “Still I Long For Your Kiss.” Disc Two captures a spirited live performance, recorded July 11, 1998 at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia for WXPN’s “Live At The World CafĂ©” radio show.