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Smart, Lyrical, Even Genteel, But Is It Rock?

Eric Weisbard, The New York Times, 1 August 1999

FOR ONE breed of rock fan, last year's most important album was probably Lucinda Williams's Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, a dozen perfectly turned roots songs with novelistically precise lyrics.

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