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Dick's Picks Volume 26

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Released
  
October, 2002

Length
  
142:01

Artist
  
Grateful Dead

Label
  
Grateful Dead Records

Recorded
  
April, 1969

Dick's Picks Volume 26 (2002)
  
Go to Nassau (2002)

Release date
  
1 October 2002

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Genres
  
Jam band, Psychedelic rock, Folk rock, Country rock

Similar
  
Grateful Dead albums, Jam band albums, Other albums

Dick's Picks Volume 26 is the 26th installment of the Grateful Dead's archival series. It was recorded on April 26, 1969 at the Electric Theater in Chicago, Illinois and on April 27, 1969 at the Labor Temple in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It contains a rare cover of the Jimmy Reed song, "I Know It's a Sin".

Contents

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 26 reads:

"Dick's Picks Vol. 26 was mastered directly from the original stereo 7.5 ips analog tapes. It is a snapshot of history, not a modern professional recording, and may therefore exhibit some technical anomalies and the unavoidable effects of the ravages of time"

Disc One

  1. "Dupree's Diamond Blues" > (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 4:30
  2. "Mountains of the Moon" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:45
  3. "China Cat Sunflower" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:58
  4. "Doin' That Rag" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:18
  5. "Cryptical Envelopment" > (Garcia) – 3:05
  6. "The Other One" > (Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzman) – 7:20
  7. "The Eleven" > (Phil Lesh, Hunter) – 7:59
  8. "The Other One" > (Weir, Kreutzman) – 1:04
  9. "I Know It's a Sin" (Jimmy Reed) – 4:28
  10. "Turn on Your Lovelight" > (Deadric Malone, Joseph Scott) – 20:37
  11. "Me and My Uncle" > (John Phillips) – 4:12
  12. "Sittin' on Top of the World" (Lonnie Carter, Walter Jacobs) – 3:37

Disc Two

  1. "Dark Star" > (Garcia, Mickey Hart, Kreutzman, Lesh, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 26:37
  2. "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 9:18
  3. "The Eleven" > (Lesh, Hunter) – 10:19
  4. "Turn on Your Lovelight" (Malone, Scott) – 15:25
  5. "Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) – 10:47

Recording dates

  • April 26, 1969 – Disc 1 tracks 1–9 (an additional track from this date was released on Fallout from the Phil Zone)
  • April 27, 1969 – Disc 1 tracks 10–12, Disc 2

    • Grateful Dead

  • Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
  • Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
  • Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – harmonica, percussion, vocals
  • Phil Lesh – electric bass, vocals
  • Tom Constanten – organ
  • Mickey Hart – drums
  • Bill Kreutzmann – drums

    • Production

  • Owsley Stanley – recording engineer
  • Jeffrey Norman – CD mastering
  • David Lemieux – tape archivist
  • Eileen Law – archival research
  • Robert Minkin – design and layout

    • Songs

    Dupree's Diamond Blues
    Mountains of the Moon
    China Cat Sunflower

    References

    Dick's Picks Volume 26 Wikipedia
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