Bob Weir helped shape the sound and spirit of American music through rhythm, risk, invention, and 60 years of fearless evolution. As a founding member of the Grateful Dead, his angular guitar work and instinct for harmonic left-turns created a conversation with Jerry Garcia that defined the band’s improvisational language — a syncopated weave of tone, space, and soul. With a cowboy poet’s voice and songwriter’s ear, Weir delivered classics like Jack Straw, Cassidy, Estimated Prophet, and One More Saturday Night, songs that still ring out at shows and campfires across generations.

His creativity never stood still. From Kingfish to RatDog, Furthur to Dead & Company, Weir remains a tireless explorer, carrying the Dead’s repertoire forward while continuing to expand it with new arrangements, new collaborators, and a bandleader’s vision. His later work with Wolf Bros and the symphonic Wolfpack has reimagined the songbook through brass, strings, and deep dynamic patience — proof that Weir’s artistic fire burns just as bright today as it did in 1965. A guitarist, storyteller, and cultural anchor, Bob Weir is a living river of American music — always moving, never finished, infinitely alive.