Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar team up to honor Kerouac

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I realize just typing that headline that this sounds like a recipe for disaster, but I've still got hope. Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Uncle Tupelo/Son Volt mainman Jay Farrar will release a disc of new songs "with lyrics based on the prose of Jack Kerouac's landmark 1962 novel Big Sur" on October 20.