Dick's Picks Volume 13

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Dick's Picks Volume 13
Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks Volume 13.jpg
Live album by
ReleasedMarch 5, 1999
RecordedMay 6, 1981
Venue Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York
Genre Rock, jam
Length206:55
Label Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Dick's Picks Volume 12
(1998)
Dick's Picks Volume 13
(1999)
Dick's Picks Volume 14
(1999)
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Dick's Picks Volume 13 is a live album by American rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete show recorded on May 6, 1981, at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. [4]

Contents

Bob Weir dedicated "He's Gone" to Bobby Sands, a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on a hunger strike while imprisoned in HM Prison Maze on May 5, 1981.

Enclosure

Included with the release is a single sheet folded in half, yielding a four-page enclosure. The front duplicates the cover of the CD, and the back is mostly black, with a white stripe across the bottom above a circular grey outline of a skull with the number 13 inside.

Inside the enclosure, the page on the left contains a single black-and-white photograph of the band on stage, taken looking down on them from an elevated position. The page on the right lists the contents of and credits for the release. [5]

Caveat emptor

Each volume of Dick's Picks has its own "caveat emptor" label, advising the listener of the sound quality of the recording. The one for Volume 13 reads:

"This release was digitally remastered directly from the original cassette tapes. It is a snapshot of history, not a modern professional recording, and may therefore exhibit some minor technical anomalies and the unavoidable effects of the ravages of time."

Track listing

Disc one
First set:
  1. "Alabama Getaway" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 5:01
  2. "Greatest Story Ever Told (Mickey Hart, Hunter, Bob Weir) – 4:25
  3. "They Love Each Other" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:08
  4. "Cassidy" (John Barlow, Weir) – 5:17
  5. "Jack-A-Roe" (traditional) – 4:55
  6. "Little Red Rooster" (Willie Dixon) – 9:32
  7. "Dire Wolf" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:26
  8. "Looks Like Rain" (Barlow, Weir) – 9:05
  9. "Big Railroad Blues" (Noah Lewis) – 3:54
  10. "Let It Grow" (Barlow, Weir) – 10:07
  11. "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:33
Disc two
Second set:
  1. "New Minglewood Blues" (traditional) – 7:15
  2. "High Time" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:48
  3. "Lost Sailor" (Barlow, Weir) – 6:14 →
  4. "Saint of Circumstance" (Barlow, Weir) – 6:35
Hidden tracks recorded November 1, 1979:

Disc three

Second set, continued:
  1. "He's Gone" (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:53 →
  2. "Caution / Spanish Jam" (Grateful Dead) – 15:24 →
  3. "Drums" (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 7:23 →
  4. "Jam" (Grateful Dead) – 3:42 →
  5. "The Other One" (Grateful Dead) – 6:04 →
  6. "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" (traditional) – 5:32 →
  7. "Wharf Rat" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:18 →
  8. "Good Lovin'" (Rudy Clark, Arthur Resnick) – 7:45
Encore:
  1. "Don't Ease Me In" (traditional) – 3:27

Personnel

Grateful Dead:

Production:

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References

  1. Ruhlman, William. "Dick's Picks, Vol. 13: Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY 5/6/81". AllMusic. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
  2. Metzger, John (July 1999). Dick's Picks Volume 13, The Music Box
  3. The Grateful Dead Album Guide Archived 2013-12-28 at the Wayback Machine , Rolling Stone
  4. Dick's Picks Volume 13 at the Grateful Dead Family Discography
  5. Enclosure included with Dick's Picks Volume 13, 1981, 1999.