Grateful Dead – Dave’s Picks Volume 14: Academy of Music, New York, NY, 3/26/72 (2015)

Dave’s Picks Volume 14 is a three-CD live album containing the concert recorded March 26, 1972 at the Academy of Music in New York City. The shows were the final American shows before the Europe ’72 tour commenced. A bonus disc was included with shipments of the album to 2015 Dave’s Picks subscribers, containing performances recorded on other nights from the seven-concert run at the same venue. Other material from these shows was previously released in 2003 as Dick’s Picks vol. 30.
On the brink of their revelatory Europe ’72 tour, the Grateful Dead brought their sevenfold merriment to winter-worn Manhattan and boy, did they warm things up. Particularly on March 26 when the dual piano/Hammond combo of Godchaux…

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…and McKernan was in full effect and Alabama singer Donna Jean Godchaux began to find her vocal footing in the band’s rich harmonies. Pigpen enthusiasts will surely rejoice when digging in to the early live versions of his originals – the limber “Chinatown Shuffle,” the bouncy “Mr. Charlie,” and the extremely tender “The Stranger (Two Souls in Communion),” not to mention a 21-minute classic cover of “Good Lovin'” deemed “the penultimate New York rave-up, a wild and perfect and funky showcase for a Lord Buckley-loving, Beat-reading member of the Grateful Dead, now and forever.”

1. “Greatest Story Ever Told” – 5:51
2. “Cold Rain and Snow” – 6:27
3. “Chinatown Shuffle” – 3:19
4. “Black Throated Wind” – 6:24
5. “You Win Again” – 4:50
6. “Mr. Charlie” – 4:12
7. “Jack Straw” – 4:57
8. “Loser” – 6:54
9. “Looks Like Rain” – 7:58
10. “Big Railroad Blues” – 4:36
11. “Big Boss Man” – 5:10
12. “Playing in the Band” – 12:16
13. “El Paso” – 4:19

1. “Good Lovin'” – 17:15

2. “Truckin'” > – 18:19
3. “Drums” > – 3:49
4. “The Other One” > – 23:35
5. “Me and My Uncle” > – 3:12
6. “The Other One” > – 5:29

1. “Wharf Rat” – 11:08
2. “Sugar Magnolia” – 7:40
3. “The Stranger (Two Souls in Communion)” – 8:23
4. “Not Fade Away” > – 5:31
5. “Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad” > – 8:00
6. “Not Fade Away” – 2:52

Dave’s Picks 2015 Bonus Disc
Academy of Music NYC 3/27/1972
01. Bertha
02. Brown-eyed Women
03. China Cat Sunflower
04. I Know You Rider
05. Cumberland Blues

Academy of Music NYC 3/21/1972
06. Truckin’->
07. Drums->
08. the Other One->
09. Wharf Rat