Dave's Picks Volume 39

Dave's Picks Volume 39
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released	July 30, 2021
Recorded	April 26, 1983
Venue	The Spectrum Philadelphia
Genre	Rock
Length	231:42
Label	Rhino
Producer	Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Dave's Picks Volume 38 (2021) Dave's Picks Volume 39 (2021) Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO 12-10-71 (2021)

Dave's Picks Volume 39 is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded on April 26, 1983, at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It also includes several bonus tracks recorded at the same venue on the previous night, and at the War Memorial Auditorium in Rochester, New York earlier that month. It was released on July 30, 2021, in a limited edition of 25,000 copies.^[1][2]

Dave's Picks Volume 39 was the first Grateful Dead album to include the songs "Maybe You Know", written and sung by Brent Mydland, and "Little Star", written and sung by Bob Weir. It was the first of the Dave's Picks series to include the song "Shakedown Street".

Track listing

Disc 1

First set:

1. "Shakedown Street" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 14:19
2. "New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 8:18
3. "They Love Each Other" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:52
4. "Me and My Uncle" > (John Phillips) – 3:18
5. "Mexicali Blues" (Bob Weir, John Perry Barlow) – 5:41
6. "Maybe You Know" (Brent Mydland) – 5:15
7. "West L.A. Fadeaway" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:37
8. "My Brother Esau" (Weir, Barlow) – 5:36
9. "It Must Have Been the Roses" (Hunter) – 5:27
10. "Let It Grow" (Weir, Barlow) – 12:31

Disc 2

Second set:

1. "Help on the Way" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:26
2. "Slipknot!" > (Garcia, Keith Godchaux, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Weir) – 4:36
3. "Franklin's Tower" > (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hunter) – 9:42
4. "Man Smart, Woman Smarter" > (Norman Span) – 6:54
5. "Drums" (Mickey Hart, Kreutzmann) – 11:14

Bonus tracks – April 25, 1983, the Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

6. "Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir) – 10:21
7. "The Wheel" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:05
8. "Playing in the Band" > (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 3:14
9. "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" > (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:29
10. "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 8:52
11. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 6:36

Disc 3

Second set, continued:

1. "Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir) – 12:30
2. "Truckin'" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 7:35
3. "Morning Dew" > (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) – 10:30
4. "Throwing Stones" > (Weir, Barlow) – 9:41
5. "Not Fade Away" (Norman Petty, Charles Hardin) – 8:54

Encore:

6. "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:04

Bonus tracks – April 15, 1983, War Memorial Auditorium, Rochester, New York:

7. "He's Gone" (Garcia, Hunter) – 12:40
8. "Little Star" (Weir) – 8:22

Personnel

Grateful Dead

• Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
• Mickey Hart – drums
• Bill Kreutzmann – drums
• Phil Lesh – bass
• Brent Mydland – keyboards, vocals
• Bob Weir – guitar, vocals

Production

• Produced by Grateful Dead
• Produced for release by David Lemieux
• Mastering: Jeffrey Norman
• Cassette wow and flutter correction: Jamie Howarth
• Recording: Dan Healy
• Art direction, design: Steve Vance
• Cover art: Helen Rebecchi Kennedy
• Photos: Bob Minkin, Bobbie Bestic
• Liner notes essay: David Lemieux

Charts

Dave's Picks Volume 39 was the third Dave's Picks album to reach #1 on the Billboard Top Rock Albums chart. It reached #16 on the Billboard 200 chart, the highest-ranking Grateful Dead album since In the Dark hit #6 in 1987.^[3]

Chart performance for Dave's Picks Volume 39

Chart (2021)	Peak position
US Billboard 200[4]	16
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[5]	1

References

1. Bernstein, Scott (July 27, 2021). "Grateful Dead Selects Philadelphia 1983 Concert For 'Dave's Picks Volume 39'". JamBase. Retrieved July 30, 2021.
2. "Dead.net Set to Release Dave's Picks Volume 39". Grateful Web. July 27, 2021. Retrieved July 30, 2021.
3. Rutherford, Kevin (August 13, 2021). "Grateful Dead Adds Third 'Dave's Picks' No. 1 on Top Rock Albums Chart". Billboard. Retrieved November 13, 2021.
4. "Grateful Dead Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
5. "Grateful Dead Chart History (Top Rock Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved August 10, 2021.