''Dick's Picks Volume 21'' is a three-CD live album by the rock group the

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. It contains the complete concert that was recorded on November 1, 1985, at Richmond Coliseum in

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. It also includes several bonus tracks recorded on September 2, 1980, at the Community War Memorial in Rochester, New York. It was released on March 20, 2001. ''Dick's Picks Volume 21'' features rare live recordings of "Spoonful", "Gimme Some Lovin'", "She Belongs to Me", "Gloria" and "Keep Your Day Job".

Enclosure and review

The release includes two sheets of paper stapled together in the middle, yielding an eight-page enclosure. The front duplicates the cover of the CD and the back features a poem entitled "20th Anniversary Rag" which references some of the songs in the band's repertoire. Inside, the first two pages contain a review by Stu Nixon, and filling the middle two pages is a color photograph of the band playing on stage. The last two pages list the contents of and credits for the release superimposed on a mostly black photograph containing a candle flame in the lower-right corner.

Review by Stu Nixon

Stu Nixon's review is entitled "Trouble ahead, Jerry's in red", and in it he asserts that the show in Richmond on November 11, 1985 "had both an uncommon song selection and a superb performance." He notes the two opening songs, "Dancing in the streets" and "Cold rain and Snow", which "were often played to jump-start the first set", "had only been played together once before - back in 1966!" Regarding the second set, the author notes that "this was the only time that the ost'Sailor/Saint' f Circumstancecombination was ever played in a show split by another song", which in this case was the drum solo. He writes of how he found "Jerry's heart-breakingly sweet 'She belongs to me' (performed only in 1985)" to be very moving and that Weir's 'Gloria' "whipped the crowd and the band into a frenzy." Stu closes his review by exclaiming "This one must be heard to be believed! E-n-j-o-y!!!"Enclosure included with Dick's Picks Volume 21, 1980, 1985/2001.

Caveat emptor

Each volume of ''Dick's Picks'' has its own "

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" label, advising the listener of the sound quality of the recording. The one for ''Volume 21'' reads: "DP 21 was mastered from the original digital tapes, our earliest foray into the digital domain to date. The master tapes are Beta PCM cassettes, with stereo digital audio recorded on the video track. We've aimed to make this release sound as good as possible, and we feel we've succeeded. Hopefully you will agree. Enjoy."

Track listing

Disc one

''First set:'' #" Dancing in the Streets" (

Marvin Gaye Marvin Pentz Gay Jr., who also spelled his surname as Gaye (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), was an American singer and songwriter. He helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo ar ...

Ivy Jo Hunter George Ivy Hunter (August 28, 1940 – October 6, 2022), known as Ivy Jo Hunter, was an American R&B songwriter, record producer and singer, most associated with his work for Motown in the 1960s. Life and career Raised in Detroit, Michigan ...

, William "Mickey" Stevenson) – 6:52 > #"Cold Rain And Snow" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 7:32 #" 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 ...

) – 8:22 #"

Stagger Lee "Stagger Lee", also known as "Stagolee" and other variants, is a popular American folk song about the murder of Billy Lyons by "Stag" Lee Shelton, in St. Louis, Missouri, at Christmas 1895. The song was first published in 1911 and first recorded ...

" (

Robert Hunter Robert Hunter may refer to: Arts * Robert Hunter (painter) (died 1780), Irish portrait painter * Robert Hunter (encyclopædist) (1823–1897), British editor of the ''Encyclopædic Dictionary'' *Robert Hunter (author) (1874–1942), American sociol ...

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 ...

) – 5:55 #"

Me and My Uncle "Me and My Uncle", often also written as "Me & My Uncle," is a song composed by John Phillips (musician), John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas, and popularized in versions by Judy Collins and the Grateful Dead. It relates the journey of a narr ...

" ( John Phillips) – 3:04 > #" Big River" ( Cash) – 6:19 #"Brown-Eyed Woman" (R. Hunter, Garcia) – 4:55 #" Jack Straw" (R. Hunter,

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 ...

) – 5:24 > #"Don't Ease Me In" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 3:14

Disc two

''Second set:'' #" Samson and Delilah" (trad., arr. Weir) – 7:33 #"High Time" (R. Hunter, Garcia) – 8:34 > #"He's Gone" (R. Hunter, Garcia) – 11:07 > #" Spoonful" (Dixon) – 4:54 > #"Comes a Time" (R. Hunter, Garcia) – 8:26 > #"Lost Sailor" ( John Barlow, Weir) – 7:27 > #"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) – 9:06 >

Disc three

''Second set, continued:'' #"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) – 11:26 > #"Saint of Circumstance" (Barlow, Weir) – 6:52 > #" Gimme Some Lovin'" ( Spencer Davis, Muff Winwood,

Steve Winwood Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English musician, singer, and songwriter whose genres include blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, and pop rock. Though primarily a keyboard player and vocalist prominent for his disti ...

) – 4:27 > #"She Belongs to Me" ( Bob Dylan) – 7:54 > #"

Gloria Gloria may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music Christian liturgy and music * Gloria in excelsis Deo, the Greater Doxology, a hymn of praise * Gloria Patri, the Lesser Doxology, a short hymn of praise ** Gloria (Handel) ** Gloria (Jenkins) ...

" ( Van Morrison) – 6:51 ''Encore:'' #

"Keep Your Day Job" (R. Hunter, Garcia) – 4:14 ''Bonus tracks recorded September 2, 1980:'' #

"Space" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir) – 8:33 > #" Iko Iko" ( James "Sugar Boy" Crawford) – 7:47 > #" Morning Dew" ( Dobson, Rose) – 11:04 > #"

Sugar Magnolia "Sugar Magnolia" is a song by the Grateful Dead. Written by Robert Hunter and Bob Weir, it is one of the most well-known songs by the band, alongside such hits as "Truckin'", "Casey Jones", "Uncle John's Band", "Touch of Grey", and fellow sugar-a ...

" (R. Hunter, Weir) – 9:14

Personnel

Grateful Dead

– lead guitar, vocals *

–

rhythm guitar In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drum kit, bass guitar ...

, vocals *

– electric bass, vocals * Brent Mydland –

keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Musi ...

, vocals *

–

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

* Bill Kreutzmann – drums

Production

*Dan Healy – recording *Jeffrey Norman – mastering * Dick Latvala – tape archivist * David Lemieux – tape archivist *Eileen Law – archival research *Robert Minkin – photography *Tina Carpenter – cover art and design *David DeNoma – cover photography

Notes

{{Authority control 21 2001 live albums