''Dave's Picks Volume 15'' is a three-CD live album by the rock band the

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. It contains the complete concert recorded on April 22, 1978 at the Municipal Auditorium in

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. It was released on August 1, 2015 as a limited edition of 16,500 numbered copies. One track from the previous concert of the tour ("Stella Blue"), in

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, on April 21, 1978, had been released on '' So Many Roads''. The following concert date of the tour (April 24, 1978, Illinois State University) had been released as '' Dave's Picks Volume 7''.

Critical reception

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, writing on

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, said, "In his brief liner notes for his 15th pick, historian/vaultmaster Dave Lemieux claims April 24, 1978 as the dividing point between the tightly honed 1977 Dead and the looser 1978 Dead. That April 24 concert at Normal's Illinois State University saw release in 2013 as the seventh ''Dave's Pick'', but this 2015 release captures a show at Nashville Municipal Auditorium from just two days earlier, so it follows that the Dead are in similarly fine form.... All and all, it's a really good, surprisingly energetic show."

Track listing

;Disc 1 :''First set:'' #"Bertha" > (

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, Robert Hunter) – 7:27 #" Good Lovin'" (

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, Rudy Clark) – 6:48 #"Candyman" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:26 #"Looks Like Rain" (

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, John Barlow) – 8:16 #"Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:33 #" Jack Straw" (Weir, Hunter) – 6:12 #" Peggy-O" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 8:16 #"New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:12 #"Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:24 ;Disc 2 :''Second set:'' #"Lazy Lightning" > (Weir, Barlow) – 3:38 #"Supplication" (Weir, Barlow) – 6:42 #"It Must Have Been the Roses" (Hunter) – 8:22 #"Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow) – 12:36 #"Eyes of the World" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 12:25 #"Rhythm Devils" > (

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, Bill Kreutzmann) – 14:09 ;Disc 3 #" Not Fade Away" > ( Norman Petty, Charles Hardin) – 11:20 #"Wharf Rat" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 12:06 #"

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" (Weir, Hunter) – 10:07 :''Encore:'' #

" One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 5:12

Personnel

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* Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals * Keith Godchaux –

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* Bill Kreutzmann – drums, percussion *

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, vocals *

– guitar, vocals ;Production *Produced by Grateful Dead *Produced for release by David Lemieux *Executive producer: Mark Pinkus *Associate producers: Doran Tyson, Ivette Ramos *CD mastering: Jeffrey Norman *Recording:

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*Art direction, design: Steve Vance *Cover art: Micah Nelson *Photos: James R. Anderson *Tape research: Michael Wesley Johnson *Archival research: Nicholas Meriwether *Liner notes: David Lemieux

References

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