Dick's Picks Volume 14

Dick's Picks Volume 14
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released	June 18, 1999
Recorded	November 30, 1973 December 2, 1973
Venue	Boston Music Hall in Boston, Massachusetts
Genre	Rock, Jam
Length	279:00
Label	Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Dick's Picks Volume 13 (1999) Dick's Picks Volume 14 (1999) Dick's Picks Volume 15 (1999)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Music Box	[2]
Rolling Stone	[3]

Dick's Picks Volume 14 is the 14th live album in the Dick's Picks series of releases by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded on November 30 and December 2, 1973 at Boston Music Hall in Boston, Massachusetts. Volume 14 was the last of the Dick’s Picks series to be released during the lifetime of the series’s namesake tape archivist, Dick Latvala.

As on Dick's Picks Volume 1, Donna Godchaux does not appear on this set as she had taken a hiatus from touring with the band due to pregnancy.

Track listing

Disc one

1. "(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) – 14:29
2. "Mexicali Blues" (Bob Weir, John Barlow) – 3:46
3. “Dire Wolf” (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 5:09
4. “Black-Throated Wind” (Weir, Barlow) – 7:01
5. “Don't Ease Me In” (traditional) – 4:44
6. "Big River" (Johnny Cash) – 5:30
7. “They Love Each Other” (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:01
8. “Playing in the Band” (Weir, Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 23:18

Disc two

1. “Here Comes Sunshine” (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:54
2. “Weather Report Suite” > (Weir, Eric Anderson, Barlow) – 14:44
3. “Dark Star Jam” > (Grateful Dead, Hunter) – 9:18
4. “Eyes of the World” > (Garcia, Hunter) – 19:26
5. “Sugar Magnolia” (Hunter, Weir) – 10:16

Disc three

1. “Cold Rain and Snow” (traditional) – 7:21
2. “Beat It on Down the Line” (Jesse Fuller) – 3:40
3. “Brown-Eyed Woman/The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down/Beer Barrel Polka” (Brown, Franklin, Friend, Garcia, Hunter, Timm, Vejvoda, Zeman) – 7:48
4. “Jack Straw” (Hunter, Weir) – 5:21
5. “Ramble on Rose” (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:04
6. “Weather Report Suite” (Anderson, Barlow, Weir) – 15:54
7. “Wharf Rat” > (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:38
8. “Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo” > (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:03

Disc four

1. “Playing in the Band” > (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 12:09
2. “Jam” (Grateful Dead) > – 15:39
3. “He's Gone” > (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:27
4. “Truckin'” > (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 13:34
5. “Stella Blue” (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:15
6. “Morning Dew” (Dobson, Rose) – 14:31

Personnel

Grateful Dead:

• Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals
• Keith Godchaux – keyboards
• Bill Kreutzmann – drums
• Phil Lesh – electric bass, vocals
• Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals

Production:

• Bill Candelario – recording
• Dick Latvala – tape archivist
• Jeffrey Norman – CD mastering
• John Cutler – ferromagnetist
• Gecko Graphics – design
• Michael J. Sanditen – photography

Recording dates

• November 30 – Discs 1 & 2
• December 2 – Discs 3 & 4

References