''Dick's Picks Volume 28'' is an

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by the rock band the

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. Released on four

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on April 20, 2003, it is the 28th installment of the ''Dick's Picks'' archival series. It was principally recorded February 26, 1973 at the Pershing Municipal Auditorium in

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, and February 28, 1973 at the

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Dick's Picks Volume 28 contains most of two concert performances from February 26 & 28, 1973. It includes two versions of "They Love Each Other", in its original arrangement, which featured an additional bridge. It also includes two versions of the Johnny Cash song, "Big River", which was played on both nights. Several other songs that were played both nights, but only one version of each is included, namely the February 26 version of "Promised Land" and the February 28 versions of "Beat it On Down the Line", "Mexicali Blues", "El Paso", "Box of Rain", "China Cat Sunflower", "I Know You Rider" & "Row Jimmy". Additional songs from February 26 are missing from the archival tapes. The album cover continues the postage stamp theme begun with ''

Dick's Picks Volume 26 ''Dick's Picks Volume 26'' is the 26th installment of the Grateful Dead's archival series. It was recorded on April 26, 1969 at the Electric Theater in Chicago, Illinois and on April 27, 1969 at the Labor Temple in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It ...

''. Liner notes list vocalist/keyboardist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan as one of the band members "in spirit", as he had, at this time, been too ill to play with the band for eight months. He died, age 27, about a week after these concerts, on March 8, 1973.

Enclosure and article

The release includes three sheets of paper stapled together in the middle, yielding a twelve-page enclosure. The front duplicates the cover of the CD and the back is a mostly blank, textured grey that matches the background of the front. The first two pages inside the front cover contain a collage consisting of a Dead Heads Newsletter and a clipping of a short newspaper article. The next two pages are a

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of black-and-white photographs of each of the band's members, and the middle two pages feature a large black-and-white photograph of the band playing on stage. The next two pages contain another photomontage of black-and-white photographs of each of the band's members, and the last two pages list the contents of and credits for the release.

Article from the Salt Lake Tribune

The article on the third page of the enclosure is from the

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, was written by David Proctor on March 1, 1973, and is entitled "Rock show rolls 'em into the aisles". Just five paragraphs long, it is a very positive review of the light show, the warm up band, which was The New Riders of the Purple Sage, and of course the main attraction, the concert by the Grateful Dead.Enclosure included with Dick's Picks Volume 28, 1973, 2003.

Caveat emptor

As with all releases in the Dick's Picks series, the notes also contain a "Caveat emptor", this time reading:

Track listing

February 26, 1973 – Pershing Municipal Auditorium, Lincoln, Nebraska

Disc 1 :''First set:'' #"The Promised Land" (

Chuck Berry Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who pioneered rock and roll. Nicknamed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Father of Rock and Roll", he refined a ...

) – 3:36 #"Loser" (

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 ...

) – 6:58 #"Jack Straw" (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, ...

) – 5:17 #"Don't Ease Me In" (traditional, arr. Grateful Dead) – 4:01 #"Looks Like Rain" ( John Barlow, Weir) – 7:24 #"Loose Lucy" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:04 #"

Beer Barrel Polka "Beer Barrel Polka", also known as "The Barrel Polka", "Roll Out the Barrel", or "Rosamunde", is a 1927 polka composed by Czech musician Jaromír Vejvoda. Lyrics were added in 1934, subsequently gaining worldwide popularity during World War II a ...

" (

Lew Brown Lew Brown (born Louis Brownstein; December 10, 1893 – February 5, 1958) was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States. During World War I and the Roaring Twenties, he wrote lyrics for several of the top Tin Pan Alley composers, espe ...

, Wladimir Timm, Jaromir Vejvoda, Vaclav Zeman) – 1:07 #"Big Railroad Blues" (

Noah Lewis Noah Lewis (September 3, 1891 – February 7, 1961)Eagle, Bob; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013). Blues: A Regional Experience. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger. p. 238. . Previously, his birth year was also reported as 1890 or 1895. 1891 is general ...

) – 4:00 #"Playing in the Band" (Hunter,

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 ...

, Weir) – 17:23 :''Second set:'' #

"They Love Each Other" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:51 #"Big River" (

Johnny Cash John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American Country music, country singer-songwriter. Much of Cash's music contained themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption, especially in the later s ...

) – 4:36 #"Tennessee Jed" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:03 Note Disc 2 #"Greatest Story Ever Told" (Hunter, Hart, Weir) – 5:26 #"Dark Star" > (Hunter, Garcia, Hart,

Bill Kreutzmann William Kreutzmann Jr. ( ; born May 7, 1946) is an American drummer and founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. He played with the band for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fellow drummer Mickey Hart, and has continued to ...

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 ...

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, Weir) – 25:23 #"Eyes of the World" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 19:09 #"Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:00 #"Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips) – 3:26 #"Not Fade Away" > (

Buddy Holly Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer and songwriter who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. He was born to a musical family in Lubbock, Texas ...

Norman Petty Norman Petty (May 25, 1927 – August 15, 1984) was an American musician, record producer, publisher, radio station owner, and considered to be one of the founding fathers of early rock & roll. Biography Petty was born in the small town of Cl ...

) – 6:34 #"Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad" > (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 7:52 #"Not Fade Away" (Holly, Petty) – 3:02 Note

February 28, 1973 – Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, Utah

Disc 3 :''First set:'' #"Cold Rain and Snow" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 6:30 #"Beat it On Down the Line" (

Jesse Fuller Jesse Fuller (March 12, 1896 – January 29, 1976) was an American one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues". Early life Fuller was born in Jonesboro, Georgia, near Atlanta. He was sent by his mother to live with ...

) – 3:23 #"They Love Each Other" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:54 #" Mexicali Blues" (Barlow, Weir) – 4:03 #"Sugaree" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:03 #"Box of Rain" (Hunter, Lesh) – 5:18 #"El Paso" (

Marty Robbins Martin David Robinson (September 26, 1925 – December 8, 1982), known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, and NASCAR racing driver. Robbins was one of the most popular and suc ...

) – 4:42 #"He's Gone" (Hunter, Garcia) – 12:06 #"Jack Straw" (Hunter, Weir) – 4:48 :''Second set:'' #"China Cat Sunflower" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:20 #"I Know You Rider" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 5:46 #"Big River" (Cash) – 4:26 Disc 4 #"Row Jimmy" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:27 #"Truckin'" > (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh, Weir) – 12:02 #"The Other One" > (Kreutzmann, Weir) – 15:07 #"Eyes of the World" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 17:02 #"Morning Dew" (

Bonnie Dobson Bonnie Dobson (born November 13, 1940, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)"Bonnie Dobson"< ...

Tim Rose Timothy Alan Patrick Rose (September 23, 1940 – September 24, 2002) (unofficial website by long-term correspondent of Rose's) was an American singer and songwriter who spent much of his life in London, England, and had more success in E ...

) – 12:40 #"Sugar Magnolia" (Hunter, Weir) – 9:11 #"We Bid You Goodnight" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 3:05 Note

Personnel

Grateful Dead

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, vocals *

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, vocals * Donna Godchaux – vocals *

Keith Godchaux Keith Richard Godchaux (July 19, 1948 – July 23, 1980) was a pianist best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979. Biography Godchaux was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in Concord, California ...

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– in spirit

Production

* Bill Candelario – recording * Jeffrey Norman – CD mastering * David Lemieux – tape archivist * Robert Minkin – cover art and package design * Brad Temkin – photography * Rich Weiner – photography * Ron sullivan – photography * Mary Ann Mayer – Deadhead newsletter design

Notes

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