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Bob Weir
Solo artist San Francisco United States
Bob Weir is an artist from San Francisco. Bob Weir has 6 chart appearances on 6 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 2006–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Only a River”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #29. The station that charted Bob Weir most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2016.
Bob Weir was a founding member of the Grateful Dead in 1965, the band's rhythm guitarist and the voice on many of its rock and country-flavored songs, and in 1972 he stepped out on his own with the album Ace, home of "Cassidy". Born in San Francisco in 1947, he never sat still for long outside the Dead either: Kingfish in 1974, Bobby and the Midnites in 1980, Go Ahead in 1987, RatDog in 1995, plus the Bob Weir Band, Scaring the Children and Furthur, which he led together with former Dead bassist Phil Lesh.
When the Dead disbanded in 1995 he kept the songbook moving with the Other Ones, later renamed the Dead, and in 2015 he teamed with Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann in Dead & Company, with John Mayer on guitar and vocals, Oteil Burbridge on bass and Jeff Chimenti on keyboards. Blue Mountain, in 2016, went the other way: a solo record steeped in the folk and country that always ran through his playing, with "Only a River" among its songs.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him as a member of the Grateful Dead in 1994, the Americana Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance followed in 2016, and the Kennedy Center Honors came his way with the band in 2024. He died in January 2026.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Bob Weir on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only a River | 1 | #29 | – | 2016 | |
| 2 | Mexicali Blues | 1 | #298 | – | – | |
| 3 | Lay My Lily Down | 1 | #63 | – | 2016 | |
| 4 | Cassidy | 1 | #757 | – | – | |
| 5 | Playing in the Band | 1 | #1042 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1042 | Playing in the Band | WYEP Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2023 | 298 | Mexicali Blues | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places |
| 2016 | 29 | Only a River | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2016 |
| 2016 | 63 | Lay My Lily Down | 90.9 The Bridge Top 100 Songs of 2016 |
| 2010 | 757 | Cassidy | WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010) |
| 2006 | 715 | Artist ranking | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006) |
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