This mix includes most of Dave Lemieux’s 1970 selections for the first twelve years of “30 Days of Dead” (2010-2021). Dave’s plucks provide a vivid take on the emergent, post-psychedelic band (acoustic and electric), as well as tracking the evolution of the jam songs that originated further back.
I have sequenced, volume-equalized, and established start/end-points, based on the raw “30 Days” tracks.
2.5-hour mp3 mix zipped up here
Disc One: New Stuff (75 minutes)
- Friend of the Devil (6/7/70)
- Little Sadie (2/23/70)
- Candyman (5/1/70)
- Uncle John’s Band (3/1/70)
- I Know You Rider (5/1/70)
- New Speedway Boogie (6/7/70)
- Dire Wolf (12/31/70)
- Cumberland Blues (2/11/70)
- Black Peter (2/11/70)
- Easy Wind (1/6/70) [WMD bonus track, 2001]
- Mason’s Children (1/10/70)
- Operator (9/18/70)
- Attics of My Life (12/27/70)
Disc Two: Oldies (76 minutes)
- Cold Rain and Snow (12/28/70)
- New Minglewood Blues (12/26/70)
- Cryptical Envelopment > The Other One > (6/7/70)
- The Main Ten (6/7/70)
- Dark Star (2/14/70) [Long Strange Trip track, 2017]
- China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider (2/1/70)
Inclusions and Exclusions:
- I omitted one track that subsequently appeared on a Dave’s Picks.
- I included two tracks that subsequently appeared as strays on later releases (see track list annotations, above). The 2/14 “Dark Star” is a great performance that fell through the cracks of both “Bear’s Choice” and “Dick’s Picks Vol. 4.” Cool that it was featured on “Long Strange Trip.”
- I chose one “Friend of the Devil” from three Dave included in the “30 Days” series – the one Dave chose to include in three different years!
- I chose the slow, 3/1/70, “Uncle John’s Band” over the two, additional fast ones from “30 Days” (2/11 and 5/1).
- I chose the crispy, vocal-proper 2/11/70 “Cumberland Blues” over the somewhat murkier singing of 12/31/70.
Art: Marshall Frantz