Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard - “One Fast Move Or I’m Gone”
They’d never met until they discovered their mutual admiration for writer Jack Kerouac. Jay Farrar of Son Volt and Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie were both at a San Francisco recording session in 2007, working on music for a Jim Sampas documentary about Jack Kerouac. After completing that project, Farrar and Gibbard decided to work on some music based on words by Kerouac. They would choose Big Sur, Kerouac’s 1962 novel, and write 12 songs. Together, they comprise One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur.
I was fortunate enough to catch them at one of their five tour stops last night. The venue that they performed at was the most intimate of all the concert venues I have been to which made the experience more memorable. Kerouac wrote novels about searching for spiritual liberation on the road and the music that Gibbard and Farrar produced definitely caught the spirit of the writer. You can catch the rest of the album here.
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” Jack Kerouac
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