Having firmly established themselves across the US in the previous three years, Blues Traveler jumped at the opportunity to play with the Canadian version of H.O.R.D.E., called Another Roadside Attraction. This took up most of July, so the fourth migration of the Great American H.O.R.D.E. did not kick off until the first week of August.

The first controversies began to brew with the addition of the Black Crowes to the bill. The impending release of Hempilation sparked a surprisingly sizeable backlash against the Crowes and several other bands appearing on the compilation, which included the tour's host, Blues Traveler, as well as co-headliners Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers; past H.O.R.D.E. artists the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies, Widespread Panic; and two future H.O.R.D.E. bands, 311 and Gov't Mule. An additional fiasco at Stanhope, NJ's Waterloo Village saw protests of both NORML and Planned Parenthood. Longtime Blues Traveler scribe Cree McCree wrote in High Times in 1995:

A coalition of state officials and antidrug activists had attempted to halt the concert in court, citing the headliners' participation in the NORML benefit album, Hempilation, as proof of their alleged "mission to glorify drug use in a state park."