Bobby Weir: Blue Mountain 10th Anniversary Reissue

September of 2026 marked the tenth anniversary of Bobby Weir's final solo album, Blue Mountain. It is an album inspired, at least in part, by time spent working as a 15-year-old ranch hand in Wyoming. It is a collection of songs, beautifully produced by Weir and Josh Kaufman [Tape Op #146] and engineered and mixed D. James Goodwin [#138]. Recording was done at a variety of studios including Weir's TRI in San Rafael, California, Applehead Recordings and The Isokon (mixing) in Woodstock, New York, in the Hudson Valley at Clubhouse Recording Studios in Rhinebeck, and Dreamland Recording Studios in Kingston. Additional work was done at Twin Buffalo Studios in Brooklyn.

Aside from being sonically pleasing, Blue Mountain finds Weir doing anything but trying too hard. His voice, which I sometimes found a tad too much on some of the Grateful Dead's albums and live shows, is mellow, understatedly confident, and reflective. On the whole there is a ton of space, which lets each instrument and the lushness of the production and mix shine. It is a modern cowboy record that has a story to tell, and a seasoned storyteller to tell it.

While the vinyl remains true to the original track listing and sequence, Blue Mountain: 10th Anniversary Edition will be released digitally on November 20th, and includes unreleased 2015 studio outtakes and live recordings from the 2016 Campfire Tour.

The vinyl reissue is a 2 LP set pressed on 180 gram black vinyl, cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, and pressed at Record Industry in the Netherlands. The original 2016 release was mastered by Greg Calbi [#86 ].