Dave's Picks Volume 21

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Dave's Picks Volume 21
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Live album by
ReleasedFebruary 1, 2017
RecordedApril 2, 1973
Venue Boston Garden
Boston, Massachusetts
Genre Rock
Length217:06
Label Rhino
Producer Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Dave's Picks Volume 20
(2016)
Dave's Picks Volume 21
(2017)
July 29 1966, P.N.E. Garden Aud., Vancouver Canada
(2017)

Dave's Picks Volume 21 is a three-CD live album by the rock group the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded on April 2, 1973, at Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. It was produced as a limited edition of 16,500 copies, and was released on February 1, 2017. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Critical reception

On AllMusic, Timothy Monger said, "The last show of their winter/spring tour, Vol. 21 finds the Dead stretching out over two very long sets which, in spite of their length, do not contain either of their major gig-stretchers of the era. In place of "Dark Star" or "The Other One", fans were treated to a whopping 34-song marathon... Several nice long jams can be found, particularly in the second set, making for a diverse and engaging listen." [4]

Track listing

Disc 1

First set:
  1. "Promised Land" (Chuck Berry) – 3:38
  2. "Deal" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 4:43
  3. "Mexicali Blues" (Bob Weir, John Perry Barlow) – 3:42
  4. "Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:47
  5. "Beat It On Down the Line" (Jesse Fuller) – 3:37 [lower-alpha 1]
  6. "Row Jimmy" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:25
  7. "Looks Like Rain" (Weir, Barlow) – 7:51
  8. "Wave That Flag" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:49
  9. "Box of Rain" (Phil Lesh, Hunter) – 5:19
  10. "Big River" (Johnny Cash) – 4:37
  11. "China Cat Sunflower" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:13
  12. "I Know You Rider" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 5:45
  13. "You Ain't Woman Enough" (Loretta Lynn) – 3:13
  14. "Jack Straw" (Weir, Hunter) – 4:46

Disc 2

  1. "Don't Ease Me In" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 4:06
  2. "Playing in the Band" (Weir, Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 17:31
Second set:
  1. "Ramble On Rose" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:39
  2. "Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips) – 3:23
  3. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:12
  4. "Greatest Story Ever Told" (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 5:25
  5. "Loose Lucy" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:07
  6. "El Paso" (Marty Robbins) – 4:29
  7. "Stella Blue" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:48
  8. "Around and Around" (Berry) – 4:42

Disc 3

  1. "Here Comes Sunshine" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:20
  2. "Jam" > (Grateful Dead) – 11:08
  3. "Me and Bobby McGee" > (Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster) – 6:07
  4. "Weather Report Suite: Prelude" > (Weir) – 3:12
  5. "Eyes of the World" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 15:58
  6. "China Doll" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:12
  7. "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 8:59
  8. "Casey Jones" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:26
Encore:
  1. "Johnny B. Goode" > (Berry) – 3:38
  2. "And We Bid You Goodnight" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 2:12

Notes

  1. "Tico-Tico" tuning before "Beat It On Down the Line"

Personnel

Grateful Dead

Production

Charts

Chart (2017)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [5] 26

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