One of Bob Weir's best songs -- for any of his musical concerns -- was "The Music Never Stopped" from the Grateful Dead's Blues for Allah album. But back in 2009, Weir -- who died this weekend at the ...

One of Bob Weir‘s best songs — for any of his musical concerns — was “The Music Never Stopped” from the Grateful Dead‘s Blues for Allah album. But back in 2009, Weir — who died this weekend at the age ...

Bob Weir was the everyman at the heart of the Grateful Dead, the one who kept the band’s feet on the ground through their farthest-reaching explorations. In the first 30 years of the band’s existence, ...

The guitarist, singer and songwriter, who died at 78, cut his own path among his elders in the Grateful Dead, and beyond. By David Browne As the youngest member of the original Grateful Dead, Bob Weir ...

Bob Dylan has built his entire career on waxing poetic about the world on a grand and minute scale, from global politics and philosophy to individuals’ stories about love, loss, and redemption. Many ...

This story was featured in The Must Read, a newsletter in which our editors recommend one can’t-miss story every weekday. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. The instrumental theme of “Playing in ...

I heard it, and I said, ‘Bob [Ezrin], this is a folk song,'" recalled Alice Cooper before being convinced to cover this Judy ...

Director Clint Bentley explains the origins of the song that Cave co-wrote with composer Bryce Dessner for the Netflix feature: "It surpassed anything I felt like it might be." By Ryan Gajewski Senior ...

In The One About the Blackbird, a young boy learns to play guitar from his grandfather. And there's one song in particular ...

The long strange trip that is the Grateful Dead and its primary offshoot, Dead & Company, has truly faded into grey with the passing of Bob Weir. Although Jerry Garcia cast the longest shadow across ...

The lyrics to Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner’s “Train Dreams,” the end-credits song in the movie of the same name, offer a chain of images that seem dark and confusing: a grizzly “big as a house,” a ...