Country and folk-rock songs from a documentary on Jack Kerouac. Words from the poem Sea and the novel Big Sur by Kerouac Jay Farrar, vocals, guitar, lap steel, piano, organ, harmonica, percussion ; Benjamin Gibbard, vocals, guitar, piano, drums ; with, variously: Mark Spencer, lap steel, piano, bass, guitar; Aaron Espinoza, bass ; Brad Sarno, pedal steel. Recorded variously at Studio, St. Louis; Hyde St. Studios and Prairie Sun Recording Studio, San Francisco; and The Ship, Los Angeles. Compact disc. Program notes ([16] p. : ports.) inserted in container.
Contents:
San Francisco (3:54). Low life kingdom (3:22) -- Williamine (4:01) -- All in one (2:09) -- Breathe our iodine (2:58) -- These roads don't move (3:11) -- Big Sur (3:25) -- One fast move or I'm gone (4:17) -- Final horrors (2:42) -- Sea engines (3:30) -- The void (2:59) -- San Francisco (3:54).
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