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One Fast Move or Im Gone: Kerouacs Big Sur, a new album featuring 12 original songs composed and performed by Jay Farrar of Son Volt and Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutiewith lyrics based on the prose of Jack Kerouacs landmark 1962 novel Big Suris set for an October 20 release on F-Stop/Atlantic Records along with a feature-length documentary of the same title in which both Gibbard and Farrar appear.
Gibbard and Farrar, having never previously met, discovered a mutual kinship in their passion for Kerouacs work while recording several songs for the documentary, produced by Kerouac Films.
After the initial San Francisco recording session in July 2007, they decided to develop the project further to create an album using Kerouacs own words from the book as the lyrics.
Big Sur, is an evocative account of a time in Jacks life when hed come undone, both emotionally and spiritually. He escapes to a cabin in Big Sur to confront his inner demons and find a modicum of peace by the sea.
Gibbard stayed in the original cabin Kerouac wrote about, to compose songs for his bands 2008 Grammy-nominated album, Narrow Stairs. For many years, Jay Farrars songwriting has been inspired and influenced by Kerouacs compositional style.
Jim Sampas, (Badlands, Kerouackicks joy darkness) is executive producer of the album. The documentary, One Fast Move or Im Gone: Kerouacs Big Sur, is directed by Curt Worden and produced by Gloria Bailen and Jim Sampas of Kerouac Films. The film features appearances by writers, poets, actors and musicians including, Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Sam Shepard. The album and film will be released on October 20, the day before the 40th anniversary of Kerouac¹s death, as a stand alone CD, a CD/DVD package, a limited edition boxed set packaged with the novel, a 40-page book on the documentary and the CD/DVD. The album will additionally be released on vinyl.
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