Dan Hyman from Details sits down with Jeff Bridges to talk about music and how he came to make the spoken word/ambient album Sleeping Tapes (2015).

Jeff Bridges is, quite simply, far out. One of Hollywood's most esteemed and sought-after actors, the 65-year-old regularly practices Transcendental Meditation, travels with the country-folk band the Abiders, and is best known for his beloved role as a pot-smoking, robe-wearing neo-hippie nicknamed The Dude in The Big Lebowski. But even the boundary-pushing absurdity of his latest project could only make him laugh. "What can I even compare it to?" Bridges says, chuckling in his measured drawl when Details asks him to describe Sleeping Tapes, an album hosted on the website Squarespace, on which Bridges meditates, speaks quirky spoken passages, and chants; it's principally designed to help listeners get a good night's rest. For Bridges, the best part is that all profits from the album go to No Kid Hungry, a charity of which he's long been an outspoken champion. He's old enough to be a grandfather, but when speaking on the phone, Bridges remains imbued with a childlike enthusiasm. Creativity remains a vital and "wonderful thing," Bridges says while discussing his unexpected new album, fulfilling his teenage dream, and why mortality has recently started to cross his mind.

Listen to the "Sleeping Tapes" here.

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