BOB WEIR - Blue Mountain (2016) Before they became avatars of the hippie counterculture, the Grateful...

BOB WEIR - Blue Mountain (2016) Before they became avatars of the hippie counterculture, the Grateful Deads members honed their skills through traditional American music. Frontman Jerry Garcia taught banjo lessons in the early 60s. Freewheeling sideman Ron Pigpen McKernan earned his stripes playing in folk and jug bands. And Bob Weir who formed Mother McCrees Uptown Jug Champions with Garcia and McKernan a couple years before creating the Grateful Dead played guitar around the campfire as a teenager ranching during summers on the Wyoming frontier. A half-century later, Weirs latest solo album, Blue Mountain, brims with a dozen lived-in cowboy tunes that honor his deepest musical roots. Its logical that the 68-year-old Weir would return to contemplative Americana late in his career. The Deads dual 1970 masterpieces, Workingmans Dead and American Beauty, are steeped in country, folk, and bluegrass, and over their three-decade touring career the band commonly covered songs by Jesse Fuller, Sonny Boy Williamson, Merle Haggard, and other seminal American artists. But the way Weir updates the style for a modern audience, while retaining its inherent, timeless spookiness, is remarkable. Weirs collaborators the Nationals noted Dead acolytes Bryce Dessner, Aaron Dessner, Scott Devendorf, that bands frequent collaborator Josh Kaufman, and versatile folk songwriter Josh Ritter help to give Blue Mountain a contemporary sheen, without overpowering the traditional current that permeates the album. TRACKS: 01. Only a River 02. Cottonwood Lullaby 03. Gonesville 04. Lay My Lily Down 05. Gallop on the Run 06. Whatever Happened to Rose 07. Ghost Towns 08. Darkest Hour 09. Ki-Yi Bossie 10. Storm Country 11. Blue Mountain 12. One More River to Cross Download: http://www15.zippyshare.com/v/MlKnKuMD/file.html PASSWORD: zinhof