The final 2019 installment in the ongoing Dave’s Picks Grateful Dead archive release series will take from the band’s March 24, 1973 show at The Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA.

The release will include the entire show, which fell less than a month after the passing of founding Dead keyboardist Ron “Pigpen” McKernan. As the Dead.net description puts it, “An upstanding ‘musical eulogy’ to the recently departed Pigpen, the Grateful Dead conducted a potent study in contrasts on this bittersweet night. They found easy balance between tidy jams like ‘They Love Each Other,’ ‘Wave That Flag,’ ‘Playing In The Band,’ and introspective moments on ‘Stella Blue,’ ‘Sing Me Back Home,’ and a poignant ‘He’s Gone.’ It was all laid down with a discipline and a polish unheard of in any of the truly exceptional shows that had come before it. Yes, you might say, they cleaned up nice to carry on the legacy as Pig would have wanted.”

More information can be found here. Below, check out the full Vol. 32 tracklist and hear Dead archivist and Dave’s Picks curator David Lemieux discuss his latest selection in the video.


Dave’s Picks Vol. 32 Tracklist:

CD 1: 
1              Bertha
2              Beat It On Down The Line
3              Don’t Ease Me In
4              The Race Is On
5              Cumberland Blues
6              Box Of Rain
7              Row Jimmy
8              Jack Straw
9              They Love Each Other
10           Mexicali Blues
11           Tennessee Jed
12           Looks Like Rain
13           Wave That Flag
14           El Paso

CD 2:      
1              Here Comes Sunshine
2              Me and Bobby McGee
3              Loser
4              Playing In The Band
5              Promised Land
6              China Cat Sunflower>
7              I Know You Rider
8              Big River
9              Stella Blue
10           Me and My Uncle

CD 3:      
1              He’s Gone>
2              Truckin’>
3              Jam>
4              Dark Star>
5              Sing Me Back Home>
6              Sugar Magnolia
7              Johnny B. Goode