Grateful Dead - Dave's Picks Vol. 47: Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, MO 12/9/79 (2023)

Who's ready to boogie with a little Brent-era Grateful Dead from the Gateway to the West? DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 47 features the complete unreleased show from Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, MO, 12/9/79 and you're going to need stamina because this one is high energy from start to finish.

By the time December 1979 rolled around, Brent Mydland had fully cemented his place in the Grateful Dead canon with his twinkling keys, harmonic tenor, and songwriting skills. No more is that evident than at this show boasting 25 songs including soon-to-be classics from GO TO HEAVEN like "Alabama Getaway," "Don't Ease Me In," "Lost Sailor," and the Brent-penned "Easy To Love You." It's also packed with whirling takes on fan-favorites like "Brown-Eyed Women," "Shakedown Street," and "Terrapin Station." And you've never heard a 2nd set quite like this with eight songs before "Drums" including an improvised "Jam" launching from the end of "Saint Of Circumstance." It doesn't stop there though, with a blazing finale of "Bertha>Good Lovin'" and perhaps one of the best versions of "Don't Ease Me In" the band ever did play. We've rounded out Disc Three with an extra nugget from '79.

Tracklist
CD1
01. Alabama Getaway>
02. Promised Land
03. Brown-Eyed Women
04. Cassidy
05. Row Jimmy
06. New Minglewood Blues
07. Candyman
08. Lazy Lightning
09. Supplication
10. Deal

CD2
01. Shakedown Street
02. Samson And Delilah
03. High Time
04. Easy To Love You
05. Terrapin Station
06. Lost Sailor
07. Saint Of Circmstance
08. Jam
09. Drums

CD3
01. Space
02. Black Peter
03. I Need A Miracle
04. Bertha
05. Good Lovin'
06. Don't Ease Me In
07. Space (Uptown Theater, Chicago IL 12/04/79)
08. Not Fade Away (Uptown Theater, Chicago IL 12/04/79)
09. Stella Blue (Uptown Theater, Chicago IL 12/04/79)
10. Sugar Magnolia (Uptown Theater, Chicago IL 12/04/79)
11. U.S. Blues (Uptown Theater, Chicago IL 12/04/79)