Blackjack David

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	(B+)[2]

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Janna Pendragon wrote of the album "A Renaissance man, Dave Alvin continues to make and record music of integrity."[1] 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."[2]

All songs by Dave Alvin unless otherwise noted.

1. "Blackjack David" (Traditional) – 5:02
2. "Abilene" – 4:57
3. "New Highway" – 3:14
4. "California Snow" (Dave Alvin, Tom Russell) – 4:00
5. "Evening Blues" – 5:33
6. "The Way You Say Goodbye" – 4:37
7. "Mary Brown" – 4:30
8. "Laurel Lynn" – 3:36
9. "1968" (Alvin, Chris Gaffney) – 4:03
10. "From a Kitchen Table" – 5:56
11. "Tall Trees" (Alvin, Fontaine Brown) – 4:47

• 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

• Paul DuGre – engineer, mixing
• David Ahlert – engineer
• Joe Gastwirt – mastering
• Lou Beach – design
• Kate Hoddinott – package design
• Issa Sharp – photography
• Dave Hoekstra – liner notes