Born in Sublette County, Wyoming, Barlow attended elementary school in a one room schoolhouse. He was a student at the Fountain Valley School in Colorado. There Barlow met Bob Weir, who would later join the music group the Grateful Dead. Weir and Barlow maintained contact throughout the years; a frequent visitor to Timothy Leary's facility in Millbrook, New York, Barlow introduced the musical group to Leary in 1967. In 1969, Barlow graduated with high honors in comparative religion from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and spent two years traveling. In 1971, he began practicing animal husbandry in Cora, Wyoming, at his family's Bar Cross Land and Livestock Company. He sold that business in 1988.
While attending a Grateful Dead show at the Capitol Theater in Portchester, New York in February of 1971, the seeds of the Barlow-Weir collaboration were sown. Until this point, Weir had mostly worked with resident Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. Hunter preferred that those who...
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