| Bull Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks | ||||
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| Released | 1970 | |||
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| Genre | Folk | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
| Producer | Charlie Daniels, Neil Wilburn | |||
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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.
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
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." [1]
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