''One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur'' is an album by

Ben Gibbard Benjamin Gibbard (born August 11, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, with whom he has recorded ten studio albums, and as a membe ...

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Death Cab for Cutie Death Cab for Cutie (commonly abbreviated to DCFC or Death Cab) is an American rock music, rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington, in 1997. Death Cab for Cutie's music has been classified as indie rock, indie pop, and alternative rock. The ...

) and

Jay Farrar Jay Stuart Farrar (born December 26, 1966) is an American songwriter and musician based in St. Louis. A member of two critically acclaimed music groups, Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, he began his solo music career in 2001. Beyond his talent as ...

( Son Volt), released in 2009. The lyrics are based on the prose of

Jack Kerouac Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Of French-Canadian ...

's novel ''

Big Sur Big Sur () is a rugged and mountainous section of the Central Coast (California), Central Coast of the U.S. state of California, between Carmel Highlands and San Simeon, where the Santa Lucia Range, Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from th ...

'' (1962). ''One Fast Move or I'm Gone'' was a result of Gibbard's and Farrar's mutual appreciation for Kerouac's work while recording several songs for a feature-length documentary of the same name. Jim Sampas, who was a producer of the film, was executive producer of the album.

Track listing

# "California Zephyr" # "Low Life Kingdom" # "Willamine" # "All in One" # "Breathe Our Iodine" # "These Roads Don't Move" # "Big Sur" # "One Fast Move or I'm Gone" # "Final Horrors" # "Sea Engines" # "The Void" # "San Francisco"

References

Adaptations of works by Jack Kerouac 2009 albums 2009 collaborative albums Atlantic Records albums Ben Gibbard albums Tribute albums to non-musicians Jay Farrar albums {{2000s-indie-rock-album-stub