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Real Gone Music has announced another “vinyl adventure” for Grateful Dead fans, this one a reissue of Dick’s Picks 26: 4/26/69 Electric Theater, Chicago, IL / 4/27/69 Labor Temple Minneapolis, MN.

Described by the label as “a worthy counterpoint to what is one of the greatest ‘official’ live albums in rock ‘n’ roll history,” Live Dead, this hand-numbered, limited-edition 4-LP box set is available to purchase now.  You’ll hear tracks from the then-soon-to-be-released Aoxomoxoa  plus a thrilling “Dark Star” medley, a rendition of Jimmy Reed’s “I Know It’s a Sin,” and much more.

The lift-off lid box features the original sleeve notes by Bear, a.k.a. Owsley Stanley, and new insights by his son Starfinder Stanley of the Owsley Stanley Foundation.  The music has been mastered for vinyl by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering, with lacquers cut by Jeff Powell.  It’s been pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Furnace and approved by engineer Jeffrey Norman, Dead archivist David Lemieux, and Real Gone’s Gordon Anderson.

The box set is limited to only 1,500 hand-numbered copies and is at this time exclusive to the Real Gone Music Online Shop, ready to ship now!

The Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks Vol. 26 –4/26/69 Electric Theater, Chicago, IL 4/27/69 Labor Temple Minneapolis, MN [4-LP] (originally Grateful Dead / Rhino CD GDCD 4046, 2002 – reissued Real Gone Music, 2020) (Real Gone Music Online Shop)

Side 1:

1. Dupree’s Diamond Blues
2. Mountains Of The Moon
3. China Cat Sunflower

Side 2:

1. Doin’ That Rag
2. Cryptical Envelopment
3. The Other One

Side 3:

1. The Eleven
2. The Other One
3. I Know It’s A Sin

Side 4:

1. Turn On Your Lovelight

Side 5:

1. Me And My Uncle
2. Sitting On Top Of The World
3. Dark Star

Side 6:

1. Dark Star (cont.)
2. St. Stephen

Side 7:

1. The Eleven
2. Turn On Your Lovelight

Side 8:

1. Turn On Your Lovelight (cont.)
2. Morning Dew