Dick's Picks Volume 1

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Dick's Picks Volume 1
Live album by
Grateful Dead
ReleasedOctober 31, 1993
RecordedDecember 19, 1973
GenreRock, psychedelic rock, jam
Length125:03
LabelGrateful Dead GDCD4018
ProducerKidd Candelario
Grateful Dead chronology
Two from the Vault
(1992)		 Dick's Picks Volume 1
(1993)		 Grayfolded
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Rolling StoneStarStar[2][3]
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Dick's Picks Volume 1 is the first album in the Dick's Picks series of live releases by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded on December 19, 1973, at Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa, Florida, and contains a rare recording of the band playing the blues standard "Nobody's Fault but Mine".[5]

Dick's Picks were created using stereo (two-track) concert recordings. This made possible the release of many more Dead shows that exist in the band's extensive tape vault. The series was named for Grateful Dead tape archivist Dick Latvala.

Track listing

Disc one
  1. "Here Comes Sunshine" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 14:13
  2. "Big River" (Johnny Cash) – 5:23
  3. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:29
  4. "Weather Report Suite" (Bob Weir, Eric Andersen, John Perry Barlow) - 15:56
  5. "Big Railroad Blues" (Noah Lewis) – 4:06
  6. "Playing in the Band" (Weir, Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 21:11
Disc two
  1. "He's Gone" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:48 →
  2. "Truckin'" (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 9:18 →
  3. "Nobody's Fault but Mine" (Joseph "Blind Willie" Johnson) – 5:53 →
  4. "Jam" (Garcia, Keith Godchaux, Bill Kreutzmann, Lesh, Weir) – 8:11 →
  5. "The Other One" (Weir, Kreutzmann) – 1:57 →
  6. "Jam" (Garcia, Godchaux, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Weir) – 6:12 →
  7. "Stella Blue" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:45
  8. "Around and Around" (Chuck Berry) – 5:37

Personnel

Grateful Dead

In the CD liner notes, Donna Jean Godchaux is listed in the band lineup and credited as "giving birth"; she had temporarily stopped touring with the band as she was about to have her first son, Zion.

Production

  • Kidd Candelario — producer, recording
  • Dick Latvala — tape archivist
  • Bruce Polonsky — photography
  • Gekko Graphics — design

References

  1. Planer, Lindsay. "Dick's Picks, Vol. 1: Tampa, FL 12/19/1973". AllMusic. Retrieved September 30, 2018.
  2. "The Grateful Dead Album Guide" Archived 2013-12-28 at the Wayback Machine, Rolling Stone
  3. Kot, Greg. (May 27, 1999). "Dick's Picks", Rolling Stone
  4. Brunner, Rob (November 27, 1998). "A Look at Dick's Picks, Volumes One–Six". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
  5. Dick's Picks Volume 1 at the Grateful Dead Family Discography