Dave's Picks Volume 51

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Dave's Picks Volume 51
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Live album by
Grateful Dead
ReleasedJuly 26, 2024
RecordedApril 13, 1971
VenueScranton Catholic Youth Center
Genre Rock
Length222:07
Label Rhino
Producer Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Dave's Picks Volume 50
(2024)		Dave's Picks Volume 51
(2024)		 Friend of the Devils: April 1978
(2024)

Dave's Picks Volume 51 is a three-CD live album by the rock band Grateful Dead. It features the complete concert recorded on April 13, 1971, at the Scranton Catholic Youth Center in Scranton, Pennsylvania. It also includes bonus tracks comprising the previous night's second set at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as well as tracks from October 24, 1970, at Kiel Opera House in St. Louis, Missouri. The remaining songs from the St. Louis performance were included as bonus tracks on Dave's Picks Volume 48 . Dave's Picks Volume 51 was released on July 26, 2024, in a limited edition of 25,000 copies. [1]

Contents

The cover art, designed by Steve Vance, is a nod to the TV show The Office , which took place in the concert's location of Scranton.

Critical reception

On AllMusic, Timothy Monger wrote: "After a couple volumes devoted to late-'70s and '80s classics, Dave's Picks returns to the source with a spring 1971 show featuring the original Grateful Dead quintet of Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan.... Fans of classic era Dead will enjoy hearing Pigpen still in his prime on this nimble and focused volume." [2]

In Glide Magazine, Doug Collette said, "Most songs that would grace the Skull & Roses double LP released that autumn are featured in these setlists.... With their range of choices for Dave's 51, the curators seem to say improvisation took many forms within the oeuvre of the Grateful Dead. There certainly isn’t much extensive jamming on the first set of 4/13, but the second set is perfectly scintillating from start to finish." [3]

Track listing

Disc 1

First set:
  1. "Casey Jones" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 5:38
  2. "Mama Tried" (Merle Haggard) – 3:20
  3. "Loser" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:06
  4. "Big Boss Man" (Luther Dixon, Al Smith) – 5:46
  5. "Me and Bobby McGee" (Fred Foster, Kris Kristofferson) – 6:18
  6. "Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:25
  7. "Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Hunter) – 4:56
  8. "Big Railroad Blues" (Noah Lewis, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 5:08
  9. "Playing in the Band" (Weir, Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 5:09
  10. "Hard to Handle" (Otis Redding, Alvertis Isbell, Allen Jones) – 9:10
  11. "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 6:47

Disc 2

Second set:
  1. "Truckin'" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 9:05
  2. "Drums" > (Hart, Bill Kreutzmann) – 4:25
  3. "Good Lovin'" (Rudy Clark, Arthur Resnick) – 18:55
  4. "I Second That Emotion" (Al Cleveland, Smokey Robinson) – 5:44
  5. "Greatest Story Ever Told" > (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 2:41
  6. "Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck Berry) – 3:56
  7. "Uncle John's Band" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:31
Bonus tracks – October 24, 1970 – Kiel Opera House:
  2. "Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips) – 4:21
  3. "Friend of the Devil" (Garcia, Hunter, John Dawson) – 4:06
  4. "Cold Rain and Snow" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:51
  5. "Attics of My Life" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:28
  6. "Casey Jones" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:51

Disc 3

Bonus tracks – April 12, 1971 – Civic Arena:
  1. "Truckin'" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 8:36
  2. "Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 3:15
  3. "The Other One" > (Weir, Kreutzmann) – 10:46
  4. "Wharf Rat" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:39
  5. "Me and Bobby McGee" (Foster, Kristofferson) – 6:01
  6. "Casey Jones" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:39
  7. "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 7:01
  8. "Deal" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:46
  9. "Not Fade Away" > (Norman Petty, Charles Hardin) – 4:07
  10. "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" > (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:09
  11. "Turn On Your Lovelight" (Joseph Scott, Deadric Malone) – 11:31

Personnel

Grateful Dead

Production

Charts

Chart performance for Dave's Picks Volume 51
Chart (2024)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [4] 31
US Top Rock & Alternative Albums ( Billboard ) [5] 10

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References

  1. ↑ "Now Available For Pre-Order: Dave's Picks Volume 51". Grateful Web. July 18, 2024. Retrieved August 16, 2024.
  2. ↑ Monger, Timothy. "Dave's Picks Vol. 51: Scranton Catholic Youth Center, Scranton, PA 4/13/71". AllMusic. Retrieved August 16, 2024.
  3. ↑ Collette, Doug (August 24, 2024). "Grateful Dead: Dave's Picks Volume 51 - Scranton Catholic Youth Center, Scranton, PA 4/13/71". Glide Magazine. Archived from the original on October 2, 2024. Retrieved October 1, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Grateful Dead Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved August 16, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Grateful Dead Chart History: Top Rock & Alternative Albums". Billboard . Archived from the original on May 6, 2024. Retrieved August 16, 2024.
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