It was 1993, and music was in the midst of an alternative music revolution. Good old rock’n’roll still managed to rear its fiery head, in all that grunge, with the Counting Crows “August and Everything After”. Uniting fans of both genres, it burst onto the scene like an overfilled water-balloon on bricks. This album carried an unrivalled intensity that somehow encompassed some of the most heartfelt and poetically beautiful songwriting of all time! Oh ya, also…….. it was their debut!  In 2016 a rhythm guitar player and vocalist from the original “jam-band- the Grateful Dead” named Bob Weir decided it was time to release an album filled with cowboy tunes. “Blue Mountain” takes us into a softly adventurous world of crackling campfires, big rivers, wide open spaces and cowboy sunsets. Rest assured, both whimsical and wise, and in all its rusticity, there’s plenty of western in this country album! Dusty trails and brilliant debuts call for a Woodhouse Brewing Co. IPA and a Manitoulin Brewing Swing Bridge Blond Ale.