Dave's Picks Volume 38


Dave's Picks Volume 38 is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded on September 8, 1973 at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. It also contains two bonus tracks recorded on the previous night at the same venue. Some copies of the album include a bonus disc with eight more songs from the September 7 concert. It was released on April 30, 2021 in a limited edition of 25,000 copies.
Dave's Picks Volume 38 was the first live Dead album to include the song "Let Me Sing Your Blues Away", sung by keyboardist Keith Godchaux. The "Eyes of the World" on the bonus disc was previously released, in slightly edited form, as a bonus track on the 2004 reissue of Wake of the Flood.
The September 7 and 8, 1973 Nassau Coliseum concerts were the first Grateful Dead shows at which Jerry Garcia played his custom Doug Irwin guitar "Wolf".

Critical reception

On AllMusic Timothy Monger wrote, "Captured at Uniondale, New York's Nassau Coliseum, this set features a number of songs from the band's soon-to-be-released Wake of the Flood LP including a dreamy "Stella Blue", a 15-minute "Eyes of the World", and the live debut of "Weather Report Suite"."

Track listing

Disc 1
  1. "Bertha" – 6:21
  2. "Me and My Uncle" – 3:16
  3. "Sugaree" – 8:03
  4. "Beat It On Down the Line" – 3:39
  5. "Tennessee Jed" – 8:09
  6. "Looks Like Rain" – 8:15
  7. "Brown-Eyed Women" – 5:49
  8. "Jack Straw" – 5:27
  9. "Row Jimmy"
  10. "Weather Report Suite" – 15:00
  11. * "Prelude"
  12. * "Part I"
  13. * "Part II "
Disc 2
  1. "Eyes of the World" – 15:23
  2. "China Doll" – 6:28
  4. "Greatest Story Ever Told" – 5:13
  5. "Ramble On Rose" – 6:57
  6. "Big River" – 5:02
  7. "Let Me Sing Your Blues Away" – 4:10
  8. "China Cat Sunflower" – 8:23
  9. "I Know You Rider" – 6:19
  10. "El Paso" – 4:51
  12. "Bird Song" – 13:27
Disc 3
  1. "He's Gone" – 14:55
  2. "Truckin'" – 11:46
  3. "Not Fade Away" – 9:03
  4. "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" – 7:55
  5. "Not Fade Away" – 4:17
  7. "Stella Blue" – 7:56
  8. "One More Saturday Night" – 5:06
  10. "Playing in the Band" – 18:16
Dave's Picks 2021 Bonus Disc
  1. "Here Comes Sunshine" – 11:04
  2. "Let It Grow" > – 11:33
  3. "Stella Blue" – 8:32
  4. "Truckin'" > – 10:44
  5. "Drums" > – 2:30
  6. "The Other One Jam" > – 7:09
  7. "Eyes of the World" > – 19:02
  8. "Sugar Magnolia" – 9:22
Note: The song list for the September 7, 1973 concert at Nassau Coliseum was:

Personnel

Grateful Dead
Production