San Francisco Dreams: A Jazz-Kissed Americana Journey of Near Misses and Timeless Hope “JD Hinton” (Original single)

On San Francisco Dreams, JD Hinton returns with a powerful follow-up as one of the Americana scene’s most soulful voices and cinematic storytellers. This eloquent, jazz-tinged track says it all to those that stood in line, putting so much heart and soul into what they were doing, only to get to just at the edge of the finish line.

The aged and warm voice of Hinton is driven by the elegiac touch of lived experience, interlaces subtle jazz with the rock-driven foundation and the traditional shade of Americans on the roots of Americana. Every lyric is like a love letter written at the fringe of desire: exploring the histories of the heart, tenacity, survival, and the subtle verse of byroads not travelled. The hook, I got as far as Oakland with San Francisco dreams, works on everyone in a similar way because it embodies the poignancy of being so close but yet so far, and the incredible patience that is needed to live in this liminal state.

Musically, San Francisco Dreams is a languid ride through passages of warmth, humor, and gentle irony before it splays its emotional palate across a loose-limbed, cinematic guitar solo. There is all the tenderness, and the resignation; and under it is all the fixity and unabashedness of a determination never to give up–such as belongs to an artist who knows that though some roads go to strange places, yet all to be followed are roads of poetry to the heart.

Again, JD Hinton is a masterful storyteller and true romantic as part and parcel of the Americana tradition. Like that forgotten conversation at dusk, it is a bittersweet and haunted anthem that reminds us how all those who believe in their dreams must go forth with them even when the city skyline is just out of reach.

Where to Listen

🎵 JD Hinton on Spotify
🎵 San Francisco Dreams – JD Hinton

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