Dave's Picks Volume 4

Dave's Picks Volume 4
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released	November 1, 2012
Recorded	September 24, 1976
Genre	Rock
Length	161:36
Label	Rhino
Producer	Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Spring 1990: So Glad You Made It (2012) Dave's Picks Volume 4 (2012) Winterland: May 30th 1971 (2012)

Dave's Picks Volume 4 is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded on September 24, 1976 at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.^[1][2][3] It was released on November 1, 2012.^[4]

Dave's Picks Volume 4 is the fourth in the Dave's Picks series of Grateful Dead archival releases, the successor to the Road Trips series, and was produced as a limited edition of 12,000 numbered copies.

Music from the concert performed the following night was released on Dick's Picks Volume 20.

Track listing

Disc 1

First set:

1. "Promised Land" (Chuck Berry) – 4:41
2. "Deal" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 5:07
3. "Cassidy" (Bob Weir, John Perry Barlow) – 4:34
4. "Sugaree" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:25
5. "Looks Like Rain" (Weir, Barlow) – 7:53
6. "Row Jimmy" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:48
7. "Big River" (Johnny Cash) – 5:33
8. "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:55

Disc 2

1. "Playing in the Band" > (Weir, Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 11:53
2. "Supplication" > (Weir, Barlow) – 4:55
3. "Playing in the Band" (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 4:43

Second set:

4. "Might as Well" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:36
5. "Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by Weir) – 7:02
6. "Loser" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:06
7. "New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 4:30

Disc 3

1. "Help on the Way" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:06
2. "Slipknot!" > (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Keith Godchaux) – 5:07
3. "Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 5:36
4. "Slipknot!" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Kreutzmann, K. Godchaux) – 5:28
5. "Franklin's Tower" > (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hunter) – 8:12
6. "The Music Never Stopped" > (Weir, Barlow) – 5:49
7. "Stella Blue" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:35
8. "Around and Around" (Berry) – 6:54

Encore:

9. "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:56

Personnel

Grateful Dead

• Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals
• Donna Jean Godchaux - vocals
• Keith Godchaux – keyboards
• Mickey Hart - drums
• Bill Kreutzmann – drums
• Phil Lesh – electric bass
• Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals

Production

• Produced by Grateful Dead
• Produced for release by David Lemieux
• Executive producer: Mark Pinkus
• Associate producer: Doran Tyson
• CD mastering: Jeffrey Norman
• Recording: Dan Healy
• Art direction and design: Steve Vance
• Cover art: Scott McDougall
• Tape research: Michael Wesley Johnson
• Archival research: Nicholas Meriwether
• Photos: James R. Anderson
• Liner notes essay "Higher Ed with the Dead": Nicholas Meriwether

References