“But I’ll sing you songs, written in the letter of your name. The rain is gonna come, oh, it surely looks like rain,” our now-late Bob Weir lulls, drawing thousands upon thousands of loyal listeners into a collective, visceral sigh. Fittingly, at least for those of us on and around Long Beach Island, the rain did come, on Weir’s final (one more) Saturday night, and fell in sheets around us, pooling around our entryways to form deep wells of feeling wherein resounding notes flooding from our…
‘LET THE WORDS BE YOURS, I’M DONE WITH MINE’: Bobby Weir looks right at home with Dead & Co. at Nassau Coliseum on Nov. 5, 2019.
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