''Dave's Picks Volume 36'' is a four-CD live album by the rock band the

Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead was an American rock music, rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. The band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, Folk music, folk, country music, country, jazz, bluegrass music, bluegrass, ...

. It contains two complete concerts recorded on March 26 and 27, 1987, at the

Hartford Civic Center Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960. It is the core city in the Greater Hartford metropolitan area. Census estimates since the ...

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. 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 Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for being the principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence ...

lapsed into a

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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 (three nights) and Hartford, CT (two nights), 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 :''March 26, 1987 – first set:'' #" In the Midnight Hour" (

Steve Cropper Steven Lee Cropper (born October 21, 1941), sometimes known as "The Colonel", is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, which backed artists such as Ot ...

, Wilson Pickett) – 4:36 #"

Cold Rain and Snow "Rain and Snow", also known as "Cold Rain and Snow" ( Roud 3634), is an American folksong and in some variants a murder ballad. The song first appeared in print in Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil Sharp's 1917 compilation ''English Folk Songs fro ...

" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:57 #"

C.C. Rider "See See Rider", also known as "C.C. Rider", "See See Rider Blues" or "Easy Rider", is a popular American 12-bar blues song that became a standard in several genres. Ma Rainey, Gertrude "Ma" Rainey was the first to record it on October 16, 192 ...

" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 8:29 #"Row Jimmy" (

, Robert Hunter) – 11:29 #"My Brother Esau" (

Bob Weir Robert Hall Weir ( ; né Parber, born October 16, 1947) is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the group disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead ...

, John Perry Barlow) – 4:49 #"When Push Comes to Shove" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:43 #" Desolation Row" > ( Bob Dylan) – 8:55 #"Bird Song" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:34 #" Promised Land" ( Chuck Berry) – 4:30 Disc 2 :''March 26, 1987 – second set:'' #" China Cat Sunflower" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:04 #" I Know You Rider" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 5:28 #"Looks Like Rain" (Weir, Barlow) – 8:26 #"He's Gone" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 13:25 #"Drums" > (

Mickey Hart Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman, September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 until February 19 ...

, Bill Kreutzmann) – 8:42 #"Space" > (Garcia,

Phil Lesh Philip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940) is an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career. After the band's disbanding in 1995, Lesh continued the tradition of ...

, Weir) – 7:41 #"I Need a Miracle" > (Weir, Barlow) – 4:15 #"Black Peter" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:26 #" Around and Around" (Berry) – 3:48 #" Good Lovin'" ( Rudy Clark, Arthur Resnick) – 8:07 :''March 26, 1987 – encore:'' #

" The Mighty Quinn" (Dylan) – 4:28 Disc 3 :''March 27, 1987 – first set:'' #"Alabama Getaway" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:09 #"Greatest Story Ever Told" (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 4:32 #"West L.A. Fadeaway" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:34 #" Little Red Rooster" (

Willie Dixon William James Dixon (July 1, 1915January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. He was proficient in playing both the upright bass and the guitar, and sang with a distinctive voice, but he ...

) – 8:21 #"Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:44 #"

Beat It On Down the Line "Beat It Down the Line" is a country-blues song written by Jesse Fuller and first recorded in 1961. The lyrics mention "Joe Brown's Coal Mine", which refer to Joseph E. Brown, four times governor of Georgia and president of the Dale Coal Company who ...

" ( Jesse Fuller) – 3:25 #"Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:04 #"The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, Barlow) – 8:27 :''March 27, 1987 – second set:'' #

"Touch of Grey" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:24 #" Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by Weir) – 8:07 #"Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Hunter, Lesh) – 5:19 Disc 4 :''March 27, 1987 – second set, continued:'' #"Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow) – 10:39 #"Eyes of the World" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:28 #"Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 9:08 #"Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir) – 7:07 #"

Uncle John's Band "Uncle John's Band" is a song by the Grateful Dead that first appeared in their concert setlists in late 1969. The band recorded it for their 1970 album ''Workingman's Dead''. Written by guitarist Jerry Garcia and lyricist Robert Hunter (lyrici ...

" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:19 #" Morning Dew" ( Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) – 11:24 :''March 27, 1987 – encore:'' #

Johnny B. Goode "Johnny B. Goode" is a 1958 rock song written and first recorded by Chuck Berry. Released as a single, it peaked at number two on ''Billboard'' magazine's Hot R&B Sides chart and number eight on its pre-Hot 100 chart. "Johnny B. Goode" is con ...

" (Berry) – 4:47

Personnel

Grateful Dead *

– guitar, vocals *

– drums * Bill Kreutzmann – drums *

– bass, vocals * Brent Mydland – keyboards, vocals *

– guitar, vocals Production *Produced by Grateful Dead *Produced for release by David Lemieux *Mastering: Jeffrey Norman *Recording: Dan Healy, Don Pearson *Art direction, design: Steve Vance *Cover art: Dave Kloc *Photos: James R. Anderson, Robbi Cohn, David Lemieux *Liner notes essay: David Lemieux

Charts

References

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