Jay Farrar News: Son Volt’s Jay Farrar and Death Cab for Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard Collaborate

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Son Volt’s Jay Farrar and Death Cab for Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard will collaborate on a new album. One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Surfeatures 12 original songs composed and performed by the musicians,with lyrics based on the prose of Jack Kerouac’s landmark 1962 novel Big Sur.The album will be released on October 20 via F-Stop/Atlantic Recordsalong with a feature-length documentary of the same title. Despitehaving never met before the project, Gibbard and Farrar discovered amutual love of Kerouac’s work while recording several songs for thedocumentary, produced by Kerouac Films. According to a statement,“After the initial San Francisco recording...