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If you imagine a soundtrack for 1950s-60s beat writer Jack Kerouac, it’s surely bebop, not country-folk. But that didn’t stop Death Cab for Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard and Son Volt’s Jay Farrar from collaborating on One Fast Move or I’m Gone, a rootsy set of songs loosely based on a Kerouac novel. Would the legendary scribe [...]
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Best known for leading the alt-country rock bands Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, Jay Farrar teamed with Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard for his latest project, an album with lyrics based on the prose from Jack Kerouac's 1962 novel "Big Sur."
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- Gibbard And Farrar Take On Kerouac's 'Big Sur' (www-cdn.npr.org)
- Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard reviewed (illinoisentertainer.com)
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Tonight Mazzy Star front woman Hope Sandoval will be headlining the Mayan Theatre in Downtown. St. Louis-based singer-songwriter Jay Farrar, a veteran of not one, but two critically-acclaimed outfits—Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt—and Washington-bred indie rock god Benjamin...
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- Death cab for Kerouac (csindy.com)
- Oct. 27: Ben Gibbard, Jay Farrar In Concert (www-cdn.npr.org)
Barrel of Monkeys (BOM) announces their new Executive Director, Amanda Farrar, as of August 17, 2009. An arts administrator for almost a decade, Farrar received her Master of Arts Management from Columbia College Chicago.
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Recently Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard and Son Volt lead singer Jay Farrar contributed to the soundtrack for One Fast Move or I'm Gone, a tribute documentary to American beat writer Jack Kerouac. Now, they're taking the tribute album on the road, playing shows together throughout January 2010. The tour kicks off January 23rd in Portland, OR, and wraps up a week later in Minneapolis, MN.
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