Dave's Picks Volume 36


Dave's Picks Volume 36 is a four-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains two complete concerts recorded on March 26 and 27, 1987, at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Connecticut. It was released on October 30, 2020, in a limited edition of 22,000 copies.
In July 1986 Grateful Dead guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia lapsed into a diabetic coma lasting several days. Afterwards he began a slow and ultimately successful recovery. Due to Garcia's medical condition, the band had to cancel their late-summer and fall tours. They did not return to playing live shows until December of that year. The two Hartford concerts were performed near the beginning of the band's first tour of the East Coast following these events. According to journalist Andrew Carter, "The energy level during those first post-coma east coast shows—in Hampton, VA and Hartford, CT, respectively—was higher than it had been in years. After a brush with mortality, the Grateful Dead came back as strong as ever."

Critical reception

On AllMusic, Timothy Monger wrote, "A completist's dream, Vol. 36 of the long-running Grateful Dead series Dave's Picks offers up a generous four-disc set containing two complete back-to-back shows from the group's late-'80s revival.... The set lists run the width and breadth of the band's career with numerous highlights and strong, sometimes emotional performances of Dead classics like "Black Peter", "He's Gone", and "Uncle John's Band"."

Track listing

Disc 1
  1. "In the Midnight Hour" – 4:36
  2. "Cold Rain and Snow" – 6:57
  3. "C.C. Rider" – 8:29
  4. "Row Jimmy" – 11:29
  5. "My Brother Esau" – 4:49
  6. "When Push Comes to Shove" – 4:43
  7. "Desolation Row" > – 8:55
  8. "Bird Song" – 10:34
  9. "Promised Land" – 4:30
Disc 2
  1. "China Cat Sunflower" > – 6:04
  2. "I Know You Rider" – 5:28
  3. "Looks Like Rain" – 8:26
  4. "He's Gone" > – 13:25
  5. "Drums" > – 8:42
  6. "Space" > – 7:41
  7. "I Need a Miracle" > – 4:15
  8. "Black Peter" > – 9:26
  9. "Around and Around" – 3:48
  10. "Good Lovin'" – 8:07
  12. "The Mighty Quinn" – 4:28
Disc 3
  1. "Alabama Getaway" > – 5:09
  2. "Greatest Story Ever Told" – 4:32
  3. "West L.A. Fadeaway" – 7:34
  4. "Little Red Rooster" – 8:21
  5. "Brown-Eyed Women" – 5:44
  6. "Beat It On Down the Line" – 3:25
  7. "Tennessee Jed" – 9:04
  8. "The Music Never Stopped" – 8:27
  10. "Touch of Grey" > – 6:24
  11. "Samson and Delilah" – 8:07
  12. "Cumberland Blues" – 5:19
Disc 4
  1. "Estimated Prophet" > – 10:39
  2. "Eyes of the World" > – 8:28
  3. "Drums" > – 9:08
  4. "Space" > – 7:07
  5. "Uncle John's Band" > – 7:19
  6. "Morning Dew" – 11:24
  8. "Johnny B. Goode" – 4:47

Personnel

Grateful Dead
Production