| Six Blocks Away | |
| Cover: | File:Six_Blocks_Away_single_cover.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Lucinda Williams |
| Album: | Sweet Old World |
| B-Side: | Which Will |
| Released: | 1992 |
| Genre: | Alternative country, Americana, Blues, roots rock |
| Length: | 2:52 (Album version) |
| Label: | Chameleon |
| Prev Title: | Passionate Kisses |
| Prev Year: | 1989 |
| Next Year: | 1992 |
"Six Blocks Away" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams. It was released in 1992 as the first single from her fourth album, Sweet Old World (1992).
Williams re-recorded Sweet Old World for its 25th anniversary in 2017, and released it under the new title This Sweet Old World.[1] "Six Blocks Away" was again released as the lead single, and Rolling Stone described the re-recorded version as "reinvigorated with a chiming, jangly Rickenbacker guitar line that evokes everyone from Tom Petty to the Byrds to R.E.M."[2]
LA Weekly ranked "Six Blocks Away" at No. 9 on their list of Williams' best 11 songs, calling it "one of her best jangle pop/country songs" while observing "the song's lyrics offer none of the music's bright optimism. Perhaps that is why the track works so well."[3] Rolling Stone described it as a "near-pop single", writing "Duane Jarvis's and Gurf Morlix's guitars jangle through the mix, though Williams's singing colors with a rural Louisiana rawness."[4]