Grateful Dead – Dave’s Picks Volume 16: Springfield Civic Center, Springfield, MA, 3/28/73 (2015)

Dave’s Picks Volume 16: Springfield Civic Center, Springfield, MA 3/28/73 – the show that nearly didn’t happen – is packed with 30 songs and lengthy ones to boot. As liner note scribe Dennis McNally claims this one’s got a “classic 1973 ‘problem’: almost too much good material… they simply did not know how to stop.”
From the rare “Cumberland Blues” opener barreling into a first set packed with new-at-the-time tunes to an unparalleled second set sequence of “Weather Report Suite” > a massively beautiful atonal 31-minute “Dark Star” > “Eyes of the World” > “Playing In the Band” – an atypical show closer with its extreme energy – we are certain you will agree that this one’s bountiful.

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1. “Cumberland Blues” (Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Robert Hunter) – 6:08
2. “Here Comes Sunshine” (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:47
3. “Mexicali Blues” (Bob Weir, John Barlow) – 3:42
4. “Wave That Flag” (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:39^[a]
5. “Beat It On Down the Line” (Jesse Fuller) – 3:25
6. “Loser” (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:09
7. “Jack Straw” (Weir, Hunter) – 4:59
8. “Box of Rain” (Lesh, Hunter) – 4:57
9. “They Love Each Other” (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:03
10. “El Paso” (Marty Robbins) – 4:50
11. “Row Jimmy” (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:41
12. “Around and Around” (Chuck Berry) – 5:24
13. “Brown-Eyed Women” (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:13

1. “You Ain’t Woman Enough” (Loretta Lynn) – 5:17
2. “Looks Like Rain” (Weir, Barlow) – 7:36
3. “China Cat Sunflower” > (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:54
4. “I Know You Rider” (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 5:19

5. “Promised Land” (Berry) – 3:12
6. “Loose Lucy” (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:04
7. “Me and My Uncle” (John Phillips) – 4:12
8. “Don’t Ease Me In” (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 3:23
9. “The Race Is On” (Don Rollins) – 3:13
10. “Stella Blue” (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:34
11. “Big River” (Johnny Cash) – 4:38
12. “Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo” (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:51

1. “Weather Report Suite Prelude” > (Weir) – 3:09
2. “Dark Star” > (Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Lesh, Ron McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 31:46
3. “Eyes of the World” > (Garcia, Hunter)– 12:51
4. “Playing in the Band” (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 15:27
5. “Johnny B. Goode” (Berry) – 3:51