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Dave's Picks Volume 20

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Released
  
November 1, 2016

Length
  
182:07

Artist
  
Grateful Dead

Label
  
Rhino Entertainment

Recorded
  
December 9, 1981

Producer
  
Grateful Dead

Release date
  
1 November 2016

Genre
  
Rock music

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Venue
  
CU Events Center Boulder, Colorado

Dave's Picks Volume 20 (2016)
  
Dave's Picks Volume 21 (2017)

Similar
  
Grateful Dead albums, Rock music albums

Dave's Picks Volume 20 is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded on December 9, 1981, at the CU Events Center in Boulder, Colorado. It was produced as a limited edition of 16,500 copies, and was released on November 1, 2016. The album art is by Justin Helton, featuring a skeleton riding a bike (a nod to Boulder's bicycle culture) with the iconic Flatirons in the background.

Contents

The album was the first one of the Dave's Picks series that was recorded after 1980. It was also the first Grateful Dead album that included the Rolling Stones' song "Satisfaction".

Track listing

Disc 1
First set:
  1. "Cold Rain and Snow" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:38
  2. "Jack Straw" (Bob Weir, Robert Hunter) – 6:26
  3. "Friend of the Devil" > (Jerry Garcia, John Dawson, Hunter) – 8:10
  4. "Little Red Rooster" > (Willie Dixon) – 8:48
  5. "Bird Song" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:01
  6. "Mama Tried" (Merle Haggard) – 3:10
  7. "Mexicali Blues" (Weir, John Perry Barlow) – 5:15
  8. "Candyman" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:11
  9. "Cassidy" (Weir, Barlow) – 6:16
  10. "Looks Like Rain" (Weir, Barlow) – 8:11
Disc 2
  1. "China Cat Sunflower" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:01
  2. "I Know You Rider" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:31
Second set:
  1. "Scarlet Begonias" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:27
  2. "Fire on the Mountain" (Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 8:44
  3. "Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow) – 10:31
  4. "He's Gone" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 14:53
  5. "Space" (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir) – 9:37
Disc 3
  1. "The Other One" > (Weir, Bill Kreutzmann) – 7:40
  2. "Stella Blue" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:31
  3. "Around and Around" > (Chuck Berry) – 3:40
  4. "Good Lovin'" (Rudy Clark, Arthur Resnick) – 9:23
Encore:
  1. "U.S. Blues" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:59
  2. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 6:31

Personnel

Grateful Dead

  • Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
  • Mickey Hart – drums
  • Bill Kreutzmann – drums
  • Phil Lesh – bass
  • Brent Mydland – keyboards, vocals
  • Bob Weir – guitar, vocals

    • Production

  • Grateful Dead – producers
  • David Lemieux – producer for release
  • Jeffrey Norman – mastering
  • Dan Healy – recording
  • Steve Vance – art direction and design
  • Justin Helton – cover art
  • Bob Minkin – photos
  • Nicholas G. Meriwether – liner notes essay ("Big Questions, Big Answers: The Dead in the Reagan '80s")

    • Songs

    1Cold Rain and Snow6:38
    2Jack Straw6:26
    3Friend of the Devil8:10

    References

    Dave's Picks Volume 20 Wikipedia
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