Dick's Picks Volume 21

Dick's Picks Volume 21
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released March 20, 2001
Recorded November 1, 1985
Genre Rock
Length 187:24
Label Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology

Dick's Picks Volume 20
(2001)		 Dick's Picks Volume 21
(2001)		 Dick's Picks Volume 22
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic [1]
The Music Box [2]
Rolling Stone [3]

Dick's Picks Volume 21 is the 21st live album in the Dick's Picks series of releases by the Grateful Dead. It contains a complete concert that was recorded on November 1, 1985, at Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, Virginia. It also includes several bonus tracks recorded on September 2, 1980, at the Community War Memorial in Rochester, New York.[4] It was released on March 20, 2001.

Dick's Picks Volume 21 features rare live recordings of "Spoonful", "Gimme Some Lovin'", "She Belongs to Me", "Gloria" and "Keep Your Day Job".

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 21 reads:

"DP 21 was mastered from the original digital tapes, our earliest foray into the digital domain to date. The master tapes are Beta PCM cassettes, with stereo digital audio recorded on the video track. We've aimed to make this release sound as good as possible, and we feel we've succeeded. Hopefully you will agree. Enjoy."

Track listing

Disc one

First set:

  1. "Dancing in the Streets" (Marvin Gaye, Ivy Jo Hunter, William "Mickey" Stevenson) – 6:52 >
  2. "Cold Rain And Snow" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 7:32
  3. "Little Red Rooster" (Willie Dixon) – 8:22
  4. "Stagger Lee" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) – 5:55
  5. "Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips) – 3:04 >
  6. "Big River" (Cash) – 6:19
  7. "Brown-Eyed Woman" (R. Hunter, Garcia) – 4:55
  8. "Jack Straw" (R. Hunter, Bob Weir) – 5:24 >
  9. "Don't Ease Me In" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 3:14

Disc two

Second set:

  1. "Samson and Delilah" (trad., arr. Weir) – 7:33
  2. "High Time" (R. Hunter, Garcia) – 8:34 >
  3. "He's Gone" (R. Hunter, Garcia) – 11:07 >
  4. "Spoonful" (Dixon) – 4:54 >
  5. "Comes a Time" (R. Hunter, Garcia) – 8:26 >
  6. "Lost Sailor" (John Barlow, Weir) – 7:27 >
  7. "Drums" (Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann) – 9:06 >

Disc three

Second set, continued:

  1. "Space" (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir) – 11:26 >
  2. "Saint of Circumstance" (Barlow, Weir) – 6:52 >
  3. "Gimme Some Lovin'" (Spencer Davis, Muff Winwood, Steve Winwood) – 4:27 >
  4. "She Belongs to Me" (Bob Dylan) – 7:54 >
  5. "Gloria" (Van Morrison) – 6:51

Encore:

  1. "Keep Your Day Job" (R. Hunter, Garcia) – 4:14

Bonus tracks recorded September 2, 1980:

  1. "Space" (Garcia, Lesh, weir) – 8:33 >
  2. "Iko Iko" (James "Sugar Boy" Crawford) – 7:47 >
  3. "Morning Dew" (Dobson, Rose) – 11:04 >
  4. "Sugar Magnolia" (R. Hunter, Weir) – 9:14

Personnel

Grateful Dead

Production

Notes

  1. ↑ Planer, Lindsay. Dick's Picks Volume 21 at Allmusic
  2. ↑ Metzger, John. Dick's Picks Volume 21, The Music Box, July 2001
  3. ↑ The Grateful Dead Album Guide, Rolling Stone
  4. ↑ Dick's Picks Volume 21 at the Grateful Dead Family Discography