Named after a line out of Allen Ginsburg’s famous poem “Howl”, Hallucinating Arkansas and Contemplating Jazz is a playlist dedicated to looking inwards, examining the world around you and coming to the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.. It’s a journey into the mind, a complete separation of self from ego resulting in a self-exploration like you’ve never quite experienced before.
Dramatic? Maybe. But for fans of funk, blues rock, progressive rock, jambands, and everything else in between, you’ll want to give this playlist a thorough listen a few times over.
