Blackjack David

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Released June 16, 1998 Length 50:21 Artist Dave Alvin Producer Greg Leisz Genre Country rock		Recorded February – March, 1998 Blackjack David (1998) Public Domain (2000) Release date 16 June 1998 Label HighTone Records

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Blackjack David is the sixth album by American artist Dave Alvin, released in 1998.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Janna Pendragon wrote of the album "A Renaissance man, Dave Alvin continues to make and record music of integrity." Music critic Robert Christgau wrote "...making the personal historical is still his metier—the border patrolman of "California Snow," the Vietnam casualty of "1968." He also knows how to make rootlessness historical. But I say he just likes the road."

Track listing

All songs by Dave Alvin unless otherwise noted.

"Blackjack David" (Traditional) – 5:02
"Abilene" – 4:57
"New Highway" – 3:14
"California Snow" (Dave Alvin, Tom Russell) – 4:00
"Evening Blues" – 5:33
"The Way You Say Goodbye" – 4:37
"Mary Brown" – 4:30
"Laurel Lynn" – 3:36
"1968" (Alvin, Chris Gaffney) – 4:03
"From a Kitchen Table" – 5:56
"Tall Trees" (Alvin, Fontaine Brown) – 4:47

Personnel

Dave Alvin – vocals, guitar

Chris Gaffney – accordion

Dan McGough – organ

Gregory Boaz – bass

Bob Glaub – bass

David Piltch – bass

Bobby Lloyd Hicks – drums, percussion, background vocals

Greg Leisz – guitar, lap steel guitar, mandolin, banjo, dobro, mandola, pedal steel guitar, slide guitar

Brantley Kearns – fiddle

Dillon O'Brian – accordion, harmonium, piano

Doug Wieselman – clarinet, organ

Songs

1Blackjack David4:59
2Abilene4:57
3New Highway3:14

References

Blackjack David Wikipedia

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