''Dave's Picks Volume 20'' is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded on December 9, 1981, at the

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in Boulder, Colorado. It was produced as a limited edition of 16,500 copies, and was released on November 1, 2016. The album art is by Justin Helton, featuring a skeleton riding a bike (a nod to Boulder's bicycle culture) with the iconic

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in the background. The album was the first one of the ''Dave's Picks'' series that was recorded after 1980. It was also the first Grateful Dead album that included

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' song " Satisfaction".

Critical reception

In ''

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'', Doug Collette wrote, "A little over a year after the Grateful Dead began a concerted effort to change things up for themselves and their audience with extended sojourns at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco and Radio City Music Hall in New York, the group took residence ten-night run from whence this climax comes at the CU Events Center in Boulder. Well on the way to becoming more stylized than spontaneous, the band's comfort with themselves at this juncture in their career didn't preclude more than a little imagination and much of it was centered on keyboardist Brent Mydland, who had joined the band two years prior."

Track listing

;Disc 1 :''First set:'' #" Cold Rain and Snow" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:38 #"

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" ( Bob Weir, Robert Hunter) – 6:26 #" Friend of the Devil" > ( Jerry Garcia, John Dawson, Hunter) – 8:10 #"

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" > ( Willie Dixon) – 8:48 #"Bird Song" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:01 #" Mama Tried" (

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) – 3:10 #" Mexicali Blues" (Weir,

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) – 5:15 #"Candyman" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:11 #" Cassidy" (Weir, Barlow) – 6:16 #"Looks Like Rain" (Weir, Barlow) – 8:11 ;Disc 2 #"

China Cat Sunflower "China Cat Sunflower" is a song performed by the Grateful Dead which was first recorded for their third studio album ''Aoxomoxoa''. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and the music composed by Jerry Garcia. The song was typically sung by J ...

" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:01 #"

I Know You Rider "I Know You Rider" (also "Woman Blues" and "I Know My Rider") is a traditional blues song that has been adapted by numerous artists. Modern versions can be traced back to Blind Lemon Jefferson's "Deceitful Brownskin Blues", which was released as ...

" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:31 :''Second set:'' #

" Scarlet Begonias" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:27 #" Fire on the Mountain" ( Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 8:44 #"Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow) – 10:31 #"He's Gone" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 14:53 #"Drums" > (Hart,

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) – 6:16 #"Space" > (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir) – 9:37 ;Disc 3 #"The Other One" > (Weir, Kreutzmann) – 7:40 #"Stella Blue" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:31 #"

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" > (

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) – 3:40 #"

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" (

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) – 9:23 :''Encore:'' #

"U.S. Blues" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:59 #" (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (

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) – 6:31

Personnel

Grateful Dead * Jerry Garcia –

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vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

* Mickey Hart – drums *

– drums * Phil Lesh – bass *

Brent Mydland Brent Mydland (October 21, 1952 – July 26, 1990) was an American keyboardist and singer. He was a member of the rock band The Grateful Dead from 1979 to 1990, a longer tenure than any other keyboardist in the band. Growing up in Concord ...

– keyboards, vocals * Bob Weir – guitar, vocals Production *Grateful Dead – producers * David Lemieux – producer for release *Associate Producers: Doran Tyson & Ivette Ramos *Jeffrey Norman – mastering * Dan Healy – recording *Steve Vance – art direction and design *Justin Helton – cover art *Bob Minkin – photos *Nicholas G. Meriwether – liner notes essay ("Big Questions, Big Answers: The Dead in the Reagan '80s")

Charts

References

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