A couple of hundred miles north of Los Angeles, there's a spectacular, wild stretch of California coastline where mountains tower over the Pacific: Big Sur. That's where author Jack Kerouac wrote his autobiographical novel of the same name. It's where he went after he had "come undone" and was trying to dry out from the ravages of alcohol.
A new documentary, One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur, documents that time in Kerouac's life. Its soundtrack is by Jay Farrar (Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt) and Benjamin Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie), an unlikely pair; they were so inspired by Kerouac's words that they turned it into a full-length album of the same name.
[8 min 21 sec] on All Things Considered
Hear The Entirety Of Gibbard And Farrar's Album 'One Fast Move Or I'm Gone'
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