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. 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.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Oct 4, 2016
    91
    A moving group of tunes worthy of any campfire.
  3. 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.
  5. 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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  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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