Dick's Picks Volume 26

Dick's Picks Volume 26 is the 26th installment of the Grateful Dead's archival series. It was recorded on April 26, 1969 at the Electric Theater in Chicago, Illinois and on April 27, 1969 at the Labor Temple in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[4] It contains a rare cover of the Jimmy Reed song, "I Know It's a Sin".

Dick's Picks Volume 26
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released	October 1, 2002
Recorded	April 26–27, 1969
Genre	Jam Folk-rock Psychedelic rock
Length	142:01
Label	Grateful Dead Records
Grateful Dead chronology
View from the Vault, Volume Three (2002) Dick's Picks Volume 26 (2002) Go to Nassau (2002)

Professional ratings

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

Caveat emptor

Each volume of Dick's Picks has its own "caveat emptor" label, advising the listener of the sound quality of the recording. The one for Volume 26 reads:

"Dick's Picks Vol. 26 was mastered directly from the original stereo 7.5 ips analog tapes. It is a snapshot of history, not a modern professional recording, and may therefore exhibit some technical anomalies and the unavoidable effects of the ravages of time"

Track listing

Disc One

1. "Dupree's Diamond Blues" > (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 4:30
2. "Mountains of the Moon" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:45
3. "China Cat Sunflower" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:58
4. "Doin' That Rag" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:18
5. "Cryptical Envelopment" > (Garcia) – 3:05
6. "The Other One" > (Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann) – 7:20
7. "The Eleven" > (Phil Lesh, Hunter) – 7:59
8. "The Other One" > (Weir, Kreutzmann) – 1:04
9. "I Know It's a Sin" (Jimmy Reed) – 4:28
10. "Turn on Your Lovelight" > (Deadric Malone, Joseph Scott) – 20:37
11. "Me and My Uncle" > (John Phillips) – 4:12
12. "Sittin' on Top of the World" (Lonnie Carter, Walter Jacobs) – 3:37

Disc Two

1. "Dark Star" > (Garcia, Mickey Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 26:37
2. "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 9:18
3. "The Eleven" > (Lesh, Hunter) – 10:19
4. "Turn on Your Lovelight" (Malone, Scott) – 15:25
5. "Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) – 10:47

Recording dates

• April 26, 1969 – Disc 1 tracks 1–9 (an additional track from this date was released on Fallout from the Phil Zone)
• April 27, 1969 – Disc 1 tracks 10–12, Disc 2

Personnel

Grateful Dead

• Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
• Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
• Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – harmonica, percussion, vocals
• Phil Lesh – electric bass, vocals
• Tom Constanten – organ
• Mickey Hart – drums
• Bill Kreutzmann – drums

Production

• Owsley Stanley – recording engineer
• Jeffrey Norman – CD mastering
• David Lemieux – tape archivist
• Eileen Law – archival research
• Robert Minkin – design and layout

Notes

1. Planer, Lindsay. "Dick's Picks, Vol. 26: 4/26/69 Electric Theater, Chicago, IL / 4/27/69 Labor Temple, Minneapolis, MN". AllMusic. Retrieved October 13, 2018.
2. Metzger, John. Dick's Picks Volume 26, The Music Box, March 2003
3. The Grateful Dead Album Guide Archived 2013-12-28 at the Wayback Machine, Rolling Stone
4. Dick's Picks Volume 26 at the Grateful Dead Family Discography