Dave's Picks Volume 54


Dave's Picks Volume 54 is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded on March 26, 1973, at the Baltimore Civic Center in Baltimore, Maryland. It was released on April 25, 2025, in a limited edition of 25,000 copies.
Some copies of the album include a bonus disc with songs from the March 31, 1973 concert at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo, New York.
Dave's Picks Volume 54 debuted at number 2 on the Billboard Top Album Sales chart.

Critical reception

In Glide Magazine, Doug Collette wrote, "Just past the half-century mark of entries in this ongoing archival series, the curators of Dave's Picks may have outdone themselves with Volume 54. The bonus disc itself is a veritable microcosm of the main performance, a never-before-released show from Baltimore, Maryland, that is arguably the definitive release of the whole vault enterprise."

Track listing

Disc 1
  1. "Promised Land" – 3:30
  2. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" – 7:47
  3. "The Race Is On" – 3:35
  4. "Wave That Flag" – 6:25
  5. "Jack Straw" – 5:02
  6. "Sugaree" – 7:41
  7. "Mexicali Blues" – 3:46
  8. "Box of Rain" – 5:05
  9. "Row Jimmy" – 8:29
  10. "Beat It On Down the Line" – 3:53
  11. "Brown-Eyed Women" – 5:43
  12. "El Paso" – 5:00
  13. "China Cat Sunflower" > – 7:10
  14. "I Know You Rider" – 5:03
Disc 2:
  1. "Looks Like Rain" – 7:16
  2. "Don't Ease Me In" – 3:57
  3. "Playing in the Band" – 19:49
  5. Wolfman Jack introduces the band – 1:19
  6. "Ramble On Rose" – 7:01
  7. "Big River" – 4:50
  8. "Here Comes Sunshine" – 8:35
  9. "Greatest Story Ever Told" – 5:40
  10. "Candyman" – 7:49
  11. "Me and My Uncle" – 3:09
  13. "One More Saturday Night" – 5:06
Disc 3:
  1. "He's Gone" > – 14:12
  2. "Truckin'" > – 15:19
  3. "Weather Report Suite: Prelude" > – 2:03
  4. "Jam" > – 6:06
  5. "Wharf Rat" > – 9:50
  6. "Me and Bobby McGee" > – 5:29
  7. "Eyes of the World" > – 14:18
  8. "Morning Dew" – 12:40
Dave's Picks 2025 Bonus Disc
  1. "Playing in the Band" – 17:13
  2. "He's Gone" > – 12:54
  3. "Truckin'" > – 9:56
  4. "Drums" > – 1:42
  5. "The Other One" > – 11:37
  6. "Jam" > – 7:16
  7. "I Know You Rider" – 7:24
  8. "Sugar Magnolia" – 9:00

Personnel

Grateful Dead
Production
  • Produced by Grateful Dead
  • Produced for release by David Lemieux
  • Executive producer: Mark Pinkus
  • Associate producer: Ivette Ramos
  • Recording: Kidd Candelario
  • Mastering: Jeffrey Norman
  • Art direction, design: Steve Vance
  • Cover art: James Mazza
  • Photos: David Cornwell