Blue Mountain
by Bob Weir
  • Record Label: Columbia
  • Release Date: Sep 30, 2016
Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Oct 4, 2016
    91
    A moving group of tunes worthy of any campfire.
  2. AllMusic
    Oct 7, 2016
    90
    Blue Mountain is very much an extension of his work with the Grateful Dead, particularly Workingman's Dead and American Beauty: he's tapping into legends, then spinning them for the present day.
  3. Uncut
    Sep 30, 2016
    80
    This first solo release in 10 years finds him in majestic form. [Nov 2016, p.40]
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  5. Pitchfork
    Oct 3, 2016
    75
    Quietly adventurous, wise, and a welcome late-career turn, Blue Mountain builds an ethereal home for a rhythm guitarist who was tempered in the chaos-friendly environs of Dead.
  6. PopMatters
    Sep 30, 2016
    70
    Weir’s voice is still a rough-hewn instrument, and he’s never sounded better than when singing top-shelf material like “Whatever Happened to Rose”, a lovely waltz-tempo ballad of bottomless sadness.
  7. Rolling Stone
    Sep 30, 2016
    70
    The highlight is his self-penned and unaccompanied "Ki-Yi Bossie," in which "a 12-step meeting under harsh fluorescent light" occasions a wry round of soul-searching, no wide-open spaces required.

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