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Metacritic	75/100
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Entertainment Weekly	A-
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Pitchfork	7.5/10
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Rolling Stone

Blue Mountain is a solo album by former Grateful Dead singer and guitarist Bob Weir, released on September 30, 2016. The album was inspired by his time working as a ranch hand in Wyoming when he was fifteen years old.

In a July 2015 NPR interview, guitarist Josh Ritter stated that Weir was working on an album of "cowboy songs". In August 2015, during an interview with Dan Rather, Weir performed a ballad, titled "Blue Mountain" from the upcoming album. On February 12, 2016, while performing at Sweetwater Music Hall for a benefit for Ring Mountain Day School, Weir debuted two new originals from the album; "Gonesville", and "Lay My Lily Down".

Musicians on the album include Ritter, Josh Kaufman, Scott Devendorf, Joe Russo, and The Walkmen's Walter Martin, along with lyricists Gerrit Graham and Barlow. Kaufman is the producer.

Weir will set out on a 9-date "Campfire Tour" in support of the album in October 2016, making stops on the West and East coasts. He will be backed on tour by members of the National, including Aaron Dessner, Bryan Devendorf, Scott Devendorf, and Josh Kaufman.

Weir previewed and performed selections from the new album at The Heath at The McKittrick Hotel, in New York City on August 4, for around 120 people. He was joined for the performances by Josh Kaufman. Song selections performed included Blue Mountain, Lay My Lily Down, and Ki-Yi Bossie, where as Weir also previewed the album cuts of "Only a River", "Ki-Yi Bossie", and "Ghost Towns".

He also spoke at length about certain tracks, indicatiing about the song "Ki-Yi Bossie" - a song Weir said he wrote for the ailing John Perry Barlow, a true campfire song that tells the tale of a whiskey and cocaine-filled night. "I wrote it the way I thought he would've," Weir said following the performance when an audience member asked him about the song.Rolling Stone also reported that "Ki-Yi Bossie," will be a campfire singalong with Ramblin' Jack Elliott." Talking about "Lay My Lily Down", Mason prompted Weir on the content of the record, noting the song contained quite a bit of sadness. "Because I've been there," Weir responded when asked how he transported himself to that mood. The emotional reading of the next song came from, according to Weir, listening to a lot of Appalachian music.

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