![]() ![]() Hey, hey, hey, only a river going to make things right, only a river going to make things right, only a river going to make things right. And I never saw the ocean 'til I was close to your age now. They started with the opening track from "Blue Mountain." It's called "Only A River."īOB WEIR: (Singing) Well, I was born up in the mountains, raised up in a desert town. Weir spoke to FRESH AIR producer Sam Briger. Bob Weir recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association. The ranch was owned by the parents of John Perry Barlow who later became Weir's songwriting partner. Weir says the album was inspired by the time when, as a teen, he ran away to work on a cattle ranch in Wyoming. It's called "Blue Mountain." Many of the songs were co-written with Josh Ritter. The Dead toured almost constantly until 1995 when Jerry Garcia died.īob Weir has continued to play music and has just released his first album of completely new material in 30 years. In the band, Weir was one of the two main singers and songwriters and played rhythm guitar. They got their first break as the house band for Ken Kesey's acid tests and epitomised the psychedelic sound of the counterculture. They decided to start a jug band which evolved into the Grateful Dead. ![]() On New Year's Eve in 1963, a 16-year-old Bob Weir ran into Jerry Garcia at a music store in Palo Alto. ![]()
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