Dave's Picks Volume 39
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released	July 30, 2021
Recorded	April 26, 1983
Venue	The Spectrum Philadelphia
Genre	Rock
Length	231:42
Label	Rhino
Producer	Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Dave's Picks Volume 38 (2021) Dave's Picks Volume 39 (2021) Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO 12-10-71 (2021)

Dave's Picks Volume 39 is a three-CD live album by the rock band theGrateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded on April 26, 1983, atthe Spectrum inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania. It also includes several bonus tracks recorded at the same venue on the previous night, and at theWar Memorial Auditorium inRochester, New York earlier that month. It was released on July 30, 2021, in a limited edition of 25,000 copies.^[1][2]

Dave's Picks Volume 39 was the first Grateful Dead album to include the songs "Maybe You Know", written and sung byBrent Mydland, and "Little Star", written and sung byBob Weir. It was the first of theDave's Picks series to include the song "Shakedown Street".

Disc 1

First set:

1. "Shakedown Street" (Jerry Garcia,Robert Hunter) – 14:19
2. "New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 8:18
3. "They Love Each Other" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:52
4. "Me and My Uncle" > (John Phillips) – 3:18
5. "Mexicali Blues" (Bob Weir,John Perry Barlow) – 5:41
6. "Maybe You Know" (Brent Mydland) – 5:15
7. "West L.A. Fadeaway" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:37
8. "My Brother Esau" (Weir, Barlow) – 5:36
9. "It Must Have Been the Roses" (Hunter) – 5:27
10. "Let It Grow" (Weir, Barlow) – 12:31

Disc 2

Second set:

1. "Help on the Way" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:26
2. "Slipknot!" > (Garcia,Keith Godchaux,Bill Kreutzmann,Phil Lesh, Weir) – 4:36
3. "Franklin's Tower" > (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hunter) – 9:42
4. "Man Smart, Woman Smarter" > (Norman Span) – 6:54
5. "Drums" (Mickey Hart, Kreutzmann) – 11:14

Bonus tracks – April 25, 1983, the Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

6. "Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir) – 10:21
7. "The Wheel" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:05
8. "Playing in the Band" > (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 3:14
9. "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" > (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:29
10. "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 8:52
11. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (Mick Jagger,Keith Richards) – 6:36

Disc 3

Second set, continued:

1. "Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir) – 12:30
2. "Truckin'" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 7:35
3. "Morning Dew" > (Bonnie Dobson,Tim Rose) – 10:30
4. "Throwing Stones" > (Weir, Barlow) – 9:41
5. "Not Fade Away" (Norman Petty,Charles Hardin) – 8:54

Encore:

6. "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:04

Bonus tracks – April 15, 1983, War Memorial Auditorium, Rochester, New York:

7. "He's Gone" (Garcia, Hunter) – 12:40
8. "Little Star" (Weir) – 8:22

Grateful Dead

• Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
• Mickey Hart – drums
• Bill Kreutzmann – drums
• Phil Lesh – bass
• Brent Mydland – keyboards, vocals
• Bob Weir – guitar, vocals

Production

• Produced by Grateful Dead
• Produced for release byDavid Lemieux
• Mastering: Jeffrey Norman
• Cassette wow and flutter correction:Jamie Howarth
• Recording:Dan Healy
• Art direction, design: Steve Vance
• Cover art: Helen Rebecchi Kennedy
• Photos: Bob Minkin, Bobbie Bestic
• Liner notes essay: David Lemieux

Dave's Picks Volume 39 was the thirdDave's Picks album to reach #1 on theBillboard Top Rock Albums chart. It reached #16 on theBillboard 200 chart, the highest-ranking Grateful Dead album sinceIn the Dark hit #6 in 1987.^[3]

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