"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).

[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.

"[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.