SAN FRANCISCO -- Bob Weir, the guitarist and singer who as an essential member of the Grateful Dead helped found the sound of the San Francisco counterculture of the 1960s and kept it alive through ...

The guitarist, singer and songwriter, who died at 78, cut his own path among his elders in the Grateful Dead, and beyond.

Ninety-four years ago today, the singer/songwriter nicknamed the Tall Texan, who wrote songs recorded by superstars was born.

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, ...

Fans once calculated that Bob Weir played around 4,500 shows with the Dead. One song, writes musician and critic Andy Cush, imbues the hard and lonely work of all that touring with elemental, almost ...

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 ...

The Dead was, as we know, a reluctant studio band and not one for hit singles, but some of its top-charting songs came from Weir's pen -- including "Truckin'," which he co-wrote with Garcia and ...

Legendary Grateful Dead founder and guitarist Bob Weir has died at 78, leaving behind one of the great legacies in rock music. Weir toured with variations of the beloved band for decades, even as he ...

Here's my version of the main theme from Super Mario 64! It's a legendary song by a legendary composer (Koji Kondo) from a ...

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 ...