Bull Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks Explained

Bull Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks
Type:	studio album
Artist:	Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Cover:	Bill Durham Sacks Railroad Tracks.jpg
Released:	1970
Studio:	Woodland (Nashville, Tennessee) Columbia (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre:	Folk
Label:	Reprise
Producer:	Charlie Daniels, Neil Wilburn
Prev Title:	Young Brigham
Prev Year:	1968
Next Title:	The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Next Year:	1976

Bull Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks is an album by American folk musician Ramblin' Jack Elliott, released in 1970. It was his second, and last, release on the Reprise label. Elliott did not release another studio album for eleven years.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Mary Grady wrote the album "The album shines when it gets away from talking and into the music... Lowlights are the spoken raps, which just don't work well in the context of the album. Overall, the album is a good representation of the most commercial period of Elliott's career."

Reissues

• Bull Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks was reissued on CD with selections from Young Brigham as Me & Bobby McGee by Rounder Records in 1995.^[1]
• Bull Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks was reissued on CD by Collector's Choice Music in 2001.

Track listing

1. "Me and Bobby McGee" (Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster) – 3:45
2. "Folsom Prison Blues" (Johnny Cash) – 3:48
3. "Reason to Believe" (Tim Hardin) – 2:02
4. "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" (Bob Dylan) – 1:51
5. "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" (Traditional) – 3:57
6. "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (Dylan) – 1:05
7. "Lay Lady Lay" (Dylan) – 2:55
8. "Girl from the North Country" (Dylan) – 3:00
9. "The Tramp on the Street" (Grady Cole, Hazel Cole) – 4:27
10. "Michigan Water Blue" (Clarence Williams) – 2:14
11. "Don't You Leave Me Here" (Traditional) – 1:26
12. "Blue Mountain" (Traditional) – 0:44
13. "With God on Our Side" (Dylan) – 3:44

Personnel

• Ramblin' Jack Elliott – vocals, guitar

Production notes:

• Neil Wilburn – producer, engineer
• Charlie Daniels – producer
• Johnny Cash – original liner notes

External links

• Ramblin' Jack Elliott Discography
• Unterberger, Richie. 2001. Liner notes, Collector's Choice Music reissue

Notes and References

1. Allmusic entry for Me & Bobby McGee.