Dick's Picks Volume 26 is the twenty-sixth 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. It contains a rare cover the Jimmy Reed song "I Know It's a Sin".
Track listing[]
Disc One[]
4-26-69 Electric Theater, Chicago, IL
- "Dupree's Diamond Blues" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) – 4:30->
- "Mountains of the Moon" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:45->
- "China Cat Sunflower" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:58->
- "Doin' That Rag" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:18->
- "Cryptical Envelopment" (Garcia) – 3:05->
- "The Other One" (Bill Kreutzman, Bob Weir) – 7:20->
- "The Eleven" (Hunter, Phil Lesh) – 7:59->
- "The Other One" (Kreutzman, Weir) – 1:04->
- "I Know It's a Sin" (Jimmy Reed) – 4:28
4-27-69 Labor Temple, Minneapolis, MN
- "Turn on Your Lovelight" (Deadric Malone, Joseph Scott) – 20:37->
- "Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips) – 4:12->
- "Sittin' on Top of the World" (Lonnie Carter, Walter Jacobs) – 3:37
Disc Two[]
- "Dark Star" (Hunter, Garcia, Mickey Hart, Kreutzman, Lesh, Pigpen, Weir) – 26:37->
- "Saint Stephen" (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) – 9:18->
- "The Eleven" (Hunter, Lesh) – 10:19->
- "Turn on Your Lovelight" (Malone, Scott) – 15:25
- "Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) – 10:47
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[]
- Recording engineer – Owsley Stanley
- CD mastering – Jeffrey Norman
- Tape archivist – David Lemieux
- Archival research – Eileen Law
- Design & layout – Robert Minkin