New info on the Jay Farrar-assisted goodness coming from Benny G has been announced:

'One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur, a new album featuring 12 original songs composed and performed by Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar of Son Volt - with lyrics based on the prose of Jack Kerouac’s landmark 1962 novel Big Sur - will be available on October 20th. One Fast Move or I'm Gone is a result of Ben and Jay having discovered a mutual appreciation for Kerouac's work while recording several songs for a feature-length documentary of the same name, also available on October 20th. See below for the album tracklist.

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'

Sounds cool! To date ive only heard the one song he did with Farrar, which got removed off the vimeo site...

First "non-narrow stairs-esque" thing to come from any one in the band since.

The music video for San Francisco:

http://www.kerouacfilms.com/on...sicvid/musicvid.html

I have no opinion on the lyrics, but the music... ouch.

It met my expectations.

I look forward to it moderately at this point.

cant wait until the ben video is posted, extremely keen

More press. Note the comment about tour.

http://www.billboard.com/news/...eam-1004003027.story


http://www.spinner.ca/2009/08/...r-documentary-sound/

http://www.pastemagazine.com/a...kerouac-project.html

artwork and trailer looks pretty sweet. you can pre-order some of the configs and they'll get them to you 2 weeks BEFORE stores or itunes get em. nice.

www.onefastmove.com/preorder

http://pitchfork.com/news/3648...-cab-for-cutie-song/

At the end of the article they have tour dates for Jay and Ben shows

Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard:

10/23 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
10/24 San Francisco, CA - Bimbo's 365 Club
10/26 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
10/28 New York, NY - Webster Hall

you can now hear the songs roads don't move, and let it be off of this album on rolling stone.com.

http://www.rollingstone.com/ne...fall_music_preview/7

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http://www.recordstoreday.com/NewsItem/1731

Anyone preorder this and get the song One Fast Move or I'm gone? It's really quite good.

The song let it be is really really good. The roads dont move is really quite good also.

Why doesn't Ben spend his time working on something that's not shit.