Video: One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur - TRAILER

Gibbard's gone country on "These Roads Don't Move" for the soundtrack to the documentary film One Fast Move or I'm Gone , about Jack Kerouac's time spent at Big Sur. Joined on the tunes by folk rocker Jay Farrar, the two created all of the music for the documentary; and the melody on this track particularly stands out in the collection. both the documentary and soundtrack dropped October 20th, in memory of the 40th anniversary of Kerouac's death. and if you haven't yet, get familliar .. Ben Gibbard and Jarrar - These Roads Don't [...]

• Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard - These Roads Don't Move

Recently purchased "One Fast Move Or I'm Gone", which a CD/DVD based on the life of legendary beat poet Jack Kerouac. The DVD is a recollection of Kerouac's time in Big Sur, with many of his contemporaries looking back on his extraordinary life. The CD is music composed for the film recorded by Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard. I haven't watched the DVD as yet, but the CD is very good indeed.

Once again, my favorite this week is a video. I've been a Jack fan since 11th grade. Super excited about this release. Ben and Jay put music to Jack's words! 1. California Zephyr 2. Low Life Kingdom 3. Willamine 4. All In One 5. Breathe Our Iodine 6. These Roads Don't Move 7. Big Sur 8. One Fast Move Or I'm Gone 9. Final Horrors 10. Sea Engines 11. The Void 12. San Francisco Up to date music info [...]

How do you follow up a groundbreaking novel like On The Road ? Well, often times, writers find the follow up impossible. A new documentary charts Jack Kerouac's progress. The movie details the author's 1961 sojourn to Northern California by putting together footage with interviews by fans including poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and also Tom Waits. The release also includes a soundtrack CD put together by Jay Ferrar and Ben Gibbard. Here's the trailer, showing some beautiful footage of Big Sur. There is something undeniably mystical about the place, I spent a weekend there [...]

Aside from getting married this week , Mr. Zooey Deschanel (aka Ben Gibbard) is keeping busy. He'll be playing a few shows this October with Jay Farrar of Son Volt in support of their new collaborative record, One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur . The album, coming out Oct. 20th on F-Stop/Atlantic Records, is the soundtrack to a documentary on Kerouac's Big Sur . The songs, written specifically for the project, take their lyrics from the novel. The setlist [...]

Ben Gibbard ( Death Cab for Cutie ) and Jay Farrar ( Son Volt ) will continue their Jack Kerouac adventure by literally taking it on the road in October with a touring band comprising Nick Harmer ( Death Cab ), Mark Spencer (Son Volt) and Jon Wurster (Superchunk). The collaboration between the two singer-songwriters began almost two years ago when the pair linked up to record the soundtrack for the documentary 'One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur.' The documentary about Kerouac features Farrar and Gibbard among other famous writers, poets, actors and [...]

If someone had asked me what Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Son Volt's Jay Farrar have in common I might have answered, "They both have unique voices?" As it turns out they have much more in common,...

Alt-country mainstay and Son Volt founder Jay Farrar (right) has partnered with Death Cab for Cutie vocalist Ben Gibbard (left) for a special collection of songs for a film documentary on the life and works of noted writer and "beat" poet Jack Kerouac: One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur . Set for an October 20 release, the soundtrack's 12 collaborative tracks feature lyrics pulled directly from Kerouac's own writing - most notably from his 1962 novel Big Sur - and were begun more than two years ago at the request [...]

• Jay Farrar - "San Francisco" » Farrar Gibbard - San Francisco.mp3

Son Volt's "American Central Dust" is one of my favourite albums of the year so far and won't be Jay Farrar's only release of '09, Paste has an update of the collaboration with Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard and their soundtrack to the new Jack Kerouac documentary " One Fast Move or I'm Gone Kerouac's Big Sur ", the full article is here and you can check out details of the DVD at the documentary website here . Could be one of the surprise releases of the year, looking forward to [...]

Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive , Book Club When Death Cab for Cutie 's Ben Gibbard was invited to join Son Volt 's Jay Farrar for soundtrack work, originally he was just going to be a guest vocalist on a couple tunes. But the two artists, who had never met before, found an immediate spark and continued to work on the project over the next year and a half, when their individual schedules allowed for it. The resulting CD, 'One Fast [...]