Bob Weir - Looks Like Rain

Bob Weir was stretching his songwriting muscles during the time he wrote this song and several others that became part of his regular repertoire. Here he has crafted a full-blown romantic ballad, with lyrics (by John Perry Barlow) about that old standby, Love Gone Bad. Each verse is about a thousand bars long--that's the kind of thing you write when you're stretching your songwriting muscles. Not to say it's a bad song (why post it if it were?). But maybe a few years later he would have done it a little differently.

The pedal steel guitar is by Weir's colleague Jerry Garcia.