Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks 20: Capital Centre Landover MD - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Four CD set. At a mere two songs short of two complete shows and those two songs, 'Bertha' and 'It's All Over Now', were played at both shows, so they appear on the set at least once Dick's Picks Vol. 20 is one of the more jam-packed (or is that packed with jams?) entries in the series. But this volume has a lot more going for it than just five hours-plus of music. 1976 marked the return of the band to the road after a 20-month hiatus with Mickey Hart back in tow for the first time in five years, and it is a newly rejuvenated outfit we hear playing a mix of the new and old. Perhaps the most sublime moment is the transition from 'Comes a Time' to 'Eyes of the World' (and then to the out-of-nowhere 'Orange Tango Jam') during the second set of the Syracuse show, but both shows are full of sparkling performances propelled by the newly reunited Rhythm Devils. Another keeper from the vaults. Album Tracks 1. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo 2. Dancing in the Streets 3. Cosmic Charlie 4. Scarlet Begonias 5. St. Stephen 6. Not Fade Away 7. Drums 8. Jam 9. St. Stephen 10. Sugar Magnolia 11. Cold Rain and Snow 12. Big River 13. Cassidy 14. Tennessee Jed 15. New Minglewood Blues 16. Candyman 17. It's All Over Now 18. Friend of the Devil 19. Let It Grow 20. Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad 21. Playing in the Band 22. The Wheel 23. Samson and Delilah 24. Jam 25. Comes a Time 26. Drums 27. Eyes of the World 28. Orange Tango Jam 29. Dancing in the Streets 30. Playing in the Band 31. Johnny B. Goode 32. Bertha 33. New Minglewood Blues 34. Ramble on Rose 35. Cassidy 36. Brown-Eyed Woman 37. Mama Tried 38. Peggy-O 39. Loser 40. Let It Grow 41. Sugaree 42. Lazy Lightnin' 43. Supplication