Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, released on June 30, 1998, by Mercury Records. Recorded and co-produced by Williams in Nashville, Tennessee, and Canoga Park, California, the album features guest appearances from Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris.

Praised universally, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road was named the best album of 1998 in The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll and ranked No. 98 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2020. It won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1999 and earned Williams a nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for the single "Can't Let Go." The album peaked at No. 68 on the Billboard 200, staying on the chart for over five months and becoming Williams' first Gold-certified album by the RIAA. It remains her best-seller, with 872,000 copies sold in the US as of October 2014, and was certified Silver in the UK on July 22, 2013.

Raw, genuine, and totally unfiltered, it’s the country album that made us think, “Oh, so that’s what country can really be.”