Dave's Picks Volume 25 Explained

Dave's Picks Volume 25
Type:live
Artist:Grateful Dead
Cover:Daves-Picks-Volume-25.jpg
Alt:Two skeletons – a man and a woman – are dancing, as the sun sets in the background.
Released:January 26, 2018
Recorded:November 6, 1977
Venue:Broome County Arena
Binghamton, New York
Genre:Rock
Length:166:07
Label:Rhino
Producer:Grateful Dead
Prev Title:Grateful Dead Records Collection
Prev Year:2017
Next Title:The Best of the Grateful Dead Live
Next Year:2018

Dave's Picks Volume 25 is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded on November 6, 1977, at Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena in Binghamton, New York. It was produced as a limited edition of 18,000 copies, and was released on January 26, 2018.

Critical reception

On AllMusic, Timothy Monger said, "The 25th volume of the long-running archival Grateful Dead series Dave's Picks marks the first official release of an oft-bootlegged show from the waning days of 1977.... The energy remains high throughout both sets, which include sprightly takes on favorites like "Jack Straw", "The Music Never Stopped", and other standards from that era's repertoire."

In Glide Magazine, Doug Collette wrote, "Binghamton, NY 11/6/77 is yet another cull from the treasure trove from whence came Cornell May 1977, a remarkably true-to-life recording by Betty Cantor-Jackson that finds the band on the proverbial fire during a show spreading throughout the three CDs of which it's comprised.... The compulsion is so great to sit down and listen ever so closely, to the exclusion of any other sensory input."

Track listing

Disc 1

First set:

  1. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 12:22
  2. "Jack Straw" (Bob Weir, Hunter) – 7:18
  3. "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:24
  4. "Mexicali Blues" > (Weir, John Perry Barlow) – 3:19
  5. "Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips) – 3:30
  6. "Friend of the Devil" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:38
  7. "New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 5:34
  8. "Dupree's Diamond Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:11
  9. "Passenger" (Phil Lesh, Peter Monk) – 4:43
  10. "Dire Wolf" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:18
  11. "The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, Barlow) – 8:05

Disc 2

Second set:

  1. "Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 9:10
  2. "Sunrise" (Donna Jean Godchaux) – 4:45
  3. "Scarlet Begonias" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:46
  4. "Fire on the Mountain" > (Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 9:36
  5. "Good Lovin'" (Rudy Clark, Artie Resnick) – 7:09

Disc 3

  1. "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 7:55
  2. "Drums" > (Hart, Bill Kreutzmann) – 2:48
  3. "Not Fade Away" > (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) – 9:44
  4. "Wharf Rat" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:09
  5. "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 1:04
  6. "Truckin'" (Garcia, Weir, Lesh, Hunter) – 11:32

Encore:

  1. "Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck Berry) – 5:09

Personnel

Grateful Dead

Production

See also