Dave's Picks Volume 11

Dave's Picks Volume 11
Characters from The Wizard of Oz — Dorothy, Toto, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion — with a skeleton Scarecrow, adorned with sunflowers. In the background a flying witch evades a tornado moving towards a farm.
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released August 1, 2014
Recorded November 17, 1972
Genre Rock
Length 229:37
Label Rhino
Producer Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology

Dave's Picks Volume 10
(2014)		 Dave's Picks Volume 11
(2014)		 Spring 1990 (The Other One)
(2014)

Dave's Picks Volume 11 is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded on November 17, 1972 at the Century II Convention Center in Wichita, Kansas. It was produced as a limited edition of 14,000 numbered copies, and was released by Rhino Records on August 1, 2014.[1][2][3][4]

The album also includes five bonus tracks recorded two days earlier at a concert in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The liner notes were written by Gary Houston, the artist who drew the original handbill for the concert. Reflecting the Kansas venue, the album cover art, by Tony Millionaire, depicts characters from The Wizard of Oz, including a skeleton Scarecrow adorned with sunflowers.

Track listing

Disc 1
First set:
  1. "Promised Land" (Chuck Berry) – 3:12
  2. "Sugaree" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 7:01
  3. "Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips) – 3:11
  4. "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:47
  5. "Black-Throated Wind" (Bob Weir, John Barlow) – 7:04
  6. "Bird Song" (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:01
  7. "Jack Straw" (Weir, Hunter) – 5:00
  8. "Box of Rain" (Phil Lesh, Hunter) – 4:54
  9. "Don't Ease Me In" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 3:16
  10. "Beat It On Down the Line" (Jesse Fuller) – 3:26
  11. "Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:11
  12. "Big River" (Johnny Cash) – 4:39
  13. "China Cat Sunflower" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:10
  14. "I Know You Rider" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 4:46
Disc 2
  1. "Around and Around" (Berry) – 3:55
  2. "Casey Jones" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:33
Second set:
  1. "Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 6:31
  2. "El Paso" (Marty Robbins) – 4:17
  3. "He's Gone" (Garcia, Hunter) – 14:12
  4. "Truckin'" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 9:57
  5. "The Other One" (Weir, Bill Kreutzmann) – 19:49
  6. "Brokedown Palace" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:57
  7. "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 8:24
Disc 3
  1. "Uncle John's Band" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:07
  2. "Johnny B. Goode" (Berry) – 3:57
Oklahoma City Music Hall, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, November 15, 1972:
  1. "Playing in the Band" (Weir, Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 30:57
  2. "Wharf Rat" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:38
  3. "Not Fade Away" (Norman Petty, Charles Hardin) – 7:47
  4. "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:12
  5. "Not Fade Away" (Petty, Hardin) – 3:27

Personnel

Grateful Dead
Production

References

  1. ↑ "Grateful Dead Confirm Dave's Picks Vol. 11", Jambands.com, July 22, 2014. Retrieved August 4, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Grateful Dead: Dave's Picks Volume 11: Wichita 1972", JamBase, July 22, 2014. Retrieved August 4, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Dave's Picks Volume 11: Century II Convention Hall, Wichita, KS 11/17/72", Dead.net, July 22, 2014. Retrieved August 4, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Dave's Picks Volume 11", AllMusic. Retrieved October 10, 2014.