Grateful Dead - Dave's Picks, Volume 15: Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, Tn • 4/22/78 (2015)

Dead.net has revealed the details of the next Dave’s Picks release. Due out on August 1, Dave’s Picks Vol. 15 will feature a recording of the Grateful Dead’s April 22, 1978 show at the Municipal Auditorium in Nashville.

Grateful Dead archivist Dave Lemeiux describes the show:

This one’s truly all about the music! We’re pleased to add the Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, TN, April 22, 1978 to list of “officially released” Grateful Dead shows. A spitfire of a performance that helps mark the band’s “end-of-1977 sound,” we find the seven firing on all cylinders, hitting high notes on crowd-pleasers like “Bertha>Good Lovin’” and “Jack Straw” in the first set and on “Not Fade Away”>“Wharf Rat”>“Sugar Magnolia” in the second, lest we forget to mention one of the finest versions of “Wharf Rat” ever performed. We could wax lyrical about the countless highlights of this night but we’d rather just let the jammy goodness prevail!