Dave's Picks Volume 32


Dave's Picks Volume 32 is a 3-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded at the Spectrum in Philadelphia on March 24, 1973. It was released on November 1, 2019 in a limited edition of 20,000 copies.

Critical reception

On AllMusic, Timothy Monger said, "Later would launch their own record label with the release of their sixth studio album, Wake of the Flood, and... were still honing a number of that album's cuts here, including the luminous "Here Comes Sunshine" and the lovely "Stella Blue". An air of poignant uplift surrounds parts this Philadelphia show – included here in its entirety – which took place just a couple of weeks after the death of founding member Ron "Pigpen" McKernan."
In Glide Magazine, Doug Collette wrote, "No inclusions are more striking, however, than the segues of "He’s Gone"> "Truckin'"> "Jam"> "Dark Star"> "Sing Me Back Home".... Concluding the string with the doleful likes of Merle Haggard's song is an ideal set-up for the celebratory air the band conjures up immediately after: "Sugar Magnolia" is a deservedly exhilarating transition at this, one of the group’s favorite venues."

Track listing

Disc 1
  1. "Bertha" – 6:23
  2. "Beat It On Down the Line" – 3:40
  3. "Don't Ease Me In" – 3:45
  4. "The Race Is On" – 3:24
  5. "Cumberland Blues" – 6:26
  6. "Box of Rain" – 5:34
  7. "Row Jimmy" – 8:24
  8. "Jack Straw" – 5:16
  9. "They Love Each Other" – 6:00
  10. "Mexicali Blues" – 3:58
  11. "Tennessee Jed" – 8:12
  12. "Looks Like Rain" – 7:58
  13. "Wave That Flag" – 6:19
  14. "El Paso" – 4:19
Disc 2
  1. "Here Comes Sunshine" – 9:14
  2. "Me and Bobby McGee" – 5:45
  3. "Loser" – 7:03
  4. "Playing in the Band" – 19:23
  6. "Promised Land" – 3:22
  7. "China Cat Sunflower" > – 8:05
  8. "I Know You Rider" – 5:51
  9. "Big River" – 4:41
  10. "Stella Blue" – 7:44
  11. "Me and My Uncle" – 3:12
Disc 3
  1. "He's Gone" > – 13:52
  2. "Truckin'" > – 10:04
  3. "Jam" > – 22:30
  4. "Dark Star" > – 4:10
  5. "Sing Me Back Home" > – 10:03
  6. "Sugar Magnolia" – 9:43
  8. "Johnny B. Goode" – 3:55

Personnel

Grateful Dead
Production
  • Produced by Grateful Dead
  • Produced for release by David Lemieux
  • Associate Producers: Ivette Ramos & Doran Tyson
  • Mastering: Jeffrey Norman
  • Recording: Rex Jackson, Kidd Candelario
  • Art direction, design: Steve Vance
  • Cover art: Tyler Crook
  • Photos: E.E. Stern