Kerouac Corner

 with Dave Moore and friends
  updated-4/12/12 

Welcome!  You are in Kerouac Corner, with Dave Moore and friends. Dave Moore is a Kerouac scholar living in the UK. This is an occasional column, and will talk about Jack Kerouac and his writings. He will also respond to an occasional inquiry about some aspect about Kerouac's life and writings. Corrections welcome.

Dave Moore has written and studied Kerouac extensively, and is also the author/editor of   "Neal Cassady: Collected Letters 1944-1967" published by Penguin Books in 2005. Also, check out his images of book covers by all the major beats. 

(Please email kerouaczin@aol.com with your question and have Kerouac in the subject line)

QUESTIONS (Click on the link for the answer)

What was Kerouac's favorite book that he wrote?

What books make up the Duluoz legend? And what years do they cover?

When did Kerouac live on Russell Street (in San Francisco) with the Cassidys? What was he writing?

What book is Jack Kerouac reading from when he was on the Steve Allen Television show?

I've been looking all over for  Kerouac's "Wake-Up",  and I've not found it in any bookstore near me. Where can I find it?

Who were the authors that influenced Kerouac's writing?

Was Bob Dylan influenced by Jack Kerouac?

Is there a map of Kerouac's trips cross country?

Did Jack use Highway 190 or Highway 90 when he passed through Southwest Louisiana on his famous On the Road trip with Neal?

In the novel The Subterraneans,  were the bar names -- the Red Drum, the Black Mask, and Dante’s -- actual places or just names that Jack made up?

Who was Mardou Fox (who is really Alene Lee) of Kerouac's novel The Subterraneans

At the Six Gallery poetry event in San Francisco, on Friday, October 7, 1955, Philip Lamantia read poems by his friend, John Hoffman (and Allen Ginsberg first performed Howl)

Has the film script that Kerouac mentions in chapter 11 of book one of On the Road survived?

What Joan Crawford movie did Kerouac write about  in “Joan Rawshanks in the Fog” 

"The Great Western Bus Ride" in the March 1970 issue of Esquire, Kerouac writes about getting off the bus and visiting the M&M Bar in Butte, Montana.

Jack and Neal on Record -  A look at recordings and music that reference Jack Kerouac and/or Neal Cassady. (over 250 songs listed)

 

 

 

Question: What was Kerouac's favorite book that he wrote?

Dave Responds:  Although Kerouac considered Visions of Cody to be his masterwork, a view now shared by most Kerouac scholars, Allen Ginsberg, on first reading the book in 1952, declared it "a holy mess" and stated that he did not think it could be published anywhere. Publishers apparently shared that view, and although various short extracts appeared in magazines, the book remained unpublished until January 1960, when Excerpts from Visions of Cody appeared in a limited, signed edition of 750 copies from New Directions. This version comprised about one third of the total text, and the book was not published in full until January 1973, more than three years after Kerouac's death.

Kerouac wrote Visions of Cody between October 1951 and April 1952, in New York and San Francisco. A 23-page section entitled "October in the Poolhall" was written in October 1950, six months before the scroll version of On the Road, and incorporated into Visions of Cody in 1952.

 

Dave adds this information: Here are a few examples of Kerouac claiming that Visions of Cody was his greatest work. The third example closes with a quote from the book, which originally had the title Visions of Neal --

"Visions of Neal," is about the same guy who is the main character in "On the Road." It's the greatest I've done, but the world isn't ready for it, and it won't be published for twenty years."
[Interview with Jerome Beatty, September 1957]

Visions of Neal, my greatest book, right there. Visions of Neal. All in pencil.
[Interview with Al Aronowitz, March 1959]

My own best prose has yet to be published, my Visions and Dreams and Dharmas -- when I want a friend to enjoy my style I hand him these unpublished things but the editors have been reluctant to go all out and print these. ("Madroad driving men ahead, lonely, leading around the bend into the openings of space towards the horizon Wasatch snows promised us in the vision of the West, spine heights at the World's end, coast of blue Pacific starry night -- nobone halfbanana moons sloping in the tangled night sky, the torments of great formations in mist, the huddled invisible insect in the car racing onwards, illuminate.")
[The Last Word, June 1959]

 

Editor's Note: It seems that Kerouac's favorite book changed, depending on various factors. In a 1957 interview in the "Village Voice" with Jerry Tallmer, Kerouac states that Dr. Sax is his favorite. From the article:

[Kerouac says] "I've written eight books since 'On the Road.' Viking's going to start bringing them out."

"What's your best one?"

"A book called 'Dr. Sax,' a kind of Gothic fairy tale, a myth of puberty, about some kids in New England playing around in this empty place when a shadow suddenly comes out at them, a real shadow. A real shadow," he said, stressing the image, his black eyes flashing."




 

Question - What books make up the Duluoz legend? And what years do they cover?

Answer: Kerouac's explanation of the Duluoz legend.

"My work comprises one vast book like Proust's Remembrance of Things Past except that my remembrances are written on the run instead of afterwards in a sick bed. Because of the objections of my early publishers I was not allowed to use the same personae names in each work. On The Road, The Subterraneans, The Dharma Bums, Doctor Sax, Maggie Cassidy, Tristessa, Desolation Angels, and the others are just chapters in the whole work which I call The Duluoz Legend. In my old age I intend to collect all my work and reinsert my pantheon of uniform names, leave the long shelf full of books there, and die happy. The whole thing forms one enormous comedy, seen through the eyes of poor Ti Jean (me), otherwise known as Jack Duluoz, the world of raging action and folly and also of gentle sweetness seen through the keyhole of his eye". [BIg Sur, preface]

The novels included in The Duluoz Legend include the following, in the order of time covered:

BOOK TITLE

TIME COVERED

WRITTEN

PUBLISHED

Atop an Underwood

Various

1936–1943

1999

Visions of Gerard

1922–1926

1956

1963

Doctor Sax

1930–1936

1952

1959

The Town and the City

1935–1946

1946–1949

1950

Maggie Cassidy

1938–1939

1953

1959

Vanity of Duluoz

1935–1946

1968

1968

On The Road

1946–1950

1948–1956

1957

Visions of Cody

1946–1952

1951–1952

1959 & 1973

The Subterraneans

1953

1953

1958

Tristessa

1955–1956

1955–1956

1960

The Dharma Bums

1955–1956

1957

1958

Desolation Angels

1956–1961

1956–1957

1965

Big Sur

1960

1961

1962

Satori in Paris

1965

1965

1966

Note: There are two books that are sometimes included in the Legend of Duluoz, and sometimes not.

  • Lonesome Traveler – This is not a novel, but is a collection of essays and sketches
  • Book of Dreams – This is also not a novel, but a dream-journal from dreams recorded between 1952 and 1960

Kerouac Books in the order they were published:

    The Town and the City [1950]
    On the Road [1957]
    The Subterraneans [1958]
    The Dharma Bums [1958]
    Doctor Sax [1959]
    Mexico City Blues: 242 Choruses [1959]
    Maggie Cassidy [1959]
    Tristessa [1960]
    Lonesome Traveler [1960]
    The Scripture of the Golden Eternity [1960]
    Book of Dreams [1961]
    Pull My Daisy [1961]
    Big Sur [1962]
    Visions of Gerard [1963]
    Desolation Angels [1965]
    Satori in Paris [1966] .
    Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 [1968]
    Pic: A Novel [1971]
    Scattered Poems [1971]
    Visions of Cody [1973]
    Trip Trap - Haiku (with Albert Saijo & Lew Welch) [1973]
    Heaven and Other Poems [1977]
    Pomes All Sizes [1992]
    Old Angel Midnight [1993]
    Good Blonde & Others [1993]
    Selected Letters, Vol 1 [1995]
    San Francisco Blues [1995]
    Book of Blues [1995]
    Some of the Dharma [1997]
    Atop an Underwood [1999]
    Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, Vol 2, 1957-1969 [2000]
    Book of Dreams, first unabridged edition [2001]
    Orpheus Emerged [2002]
    Book of Haikus [2003]
    The Beat Generation (a play) [2005]
    Book of Sketches [2006]
    Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha  [2008]
    And The Hippos Were Boiled in their Tanks (with William Burroughs)  [2008]
    The Sea is My Brother [2012]

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Question - I'm living on the short Russell St alley in San Francisco -- adjacent to where Neal Cassady lived for a number of years and Jack stayed for some time.  Do you happen to know when Jack was staying here?  Was he writing anything while staying with the Cassady's?

Dave responds: Kerouac visited the Cassadys several times after they had moved into 29 Russell Street in 1949. His longest stay was from December 1951 until April 1952. During that period he worked mainly on "Visions of Cody." One of the sections of this book is "Joan Rawshanks in the Fog," an account of Joan Crawford filming a scene on Hyde Street for the noir movie "Sudden Fear," which Kerouac witnessed on one of his evening rambles around Russian Hill. The "white San Francisco apartment house" where Kerouac describes the action taking place was the eleven-story Tamalpais Apartments, still standing at 1201 Greenwich Street at Hyde.

 


Question - What book is Jack Kerouac reading from when he was on the Steve Allen Television show? Is it only On The Road (which he seemed to be reading from)?

Dave Responds:  In the Steve Allen TV Show of November 1959, Kerouac begins reading two sections from Visions of Cody.

"At the junction of the state line of Colorado ..."  (p.295)

 

"I'm writing this book because we're all going to die ..." (p.368)

 

and finishes with the final paragraphs of On the Road:

 

"Dean, ragged in a motheaten overcoat ..."

He does appear to be reading from the front of his copy of On the Road. I guess he'd typed out those three sections especially for that reading, and had them taped into the front of his book.

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Question -  I've been looking all over for Kerouac's "Wake-Up".   Where would I be able to get a copy of the book?  Also, did "The Buddhist Bible" influence Jack Kerouac's inclinations towards Zen? 

Dave Responds: "Wake Up" was finally published in 2008. Selections from it previously appeared in the magazine "Tricycle: The Buddhist Review", in eight parts, between 1993 and 1995.

Kerouac wrote a letter to Allen Ginsberg in May 1954 citing the books that he had found useful in his study of Buddhism. The letter is published in "Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1940-1956," page 415. He writes that "The Buddhist Bible" by Dwight Goddard was "by far the best book" on the subject. The book is still easily available from any good bookshop, or used copies for between $6 and $10 from dealers listed on-line.

 


Question:  What writers and books most influenced Jack Kerouac? I am aware of Saroyan, Wolfe, Whitman, but that’s about it.

Dave Responds:  I don’t know of any books that go into detail about Kerouac’s literary influences, although most of the biographies mention some.

As always, I think it best to go back to primary sources like Jack’s own writings, for answers. In his biographical notes for The New American Poetry (reprinted in Good Blonde) he tells us that he began “serious writing” after he “read about Jack London at the age of 17.”  Kerouac went on to read many of London’s books including his travel diaries The Road, which inspired Kerouac’s own On the Road. He then mentions that he read Ernest Hemingway and William Saroyan at 18, and “began writing little terse short stories in that general style.” This was followed, while a Columbia freshman, by reading Thomas Wolfe which inspired him to write “in the rolling style.” Kerouac’s first published novel, The Town and the City was very much influenced by Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel. While at Columbia, Kerouac studied Shakespeare with Professor Mark Van Doren.

According to Jack, he then began reading James Joyce, and “wrote a whole juvenile novel like Ulysses called Vanity of Duluoz” (the 1942 version, unpublished apart from excerpts in Atop an Underwood). Then came Dostoevsky, a romantic phase with Rimbaud and William Blake, and, at 24, Goethe’s Dichtung und Wahrheit.

Other writers known to have had a major effect on Kerouac were Oswald Spengler, for his work Decline of the West, introduced to him by William Burroughs, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline, primarily for Journey to the End of the Night. In Vanity of Duluoz (the later, 1968 version), Jack states that Allen Ginsberg was responsible for introducing him to Yeats, Huxley, Nietzsche, Lautréamont, and others. At the same time Jack was reading Thomas Mann, Herman Melville, Sigmund Freud, and H.G. Wells.

Kerouac also cites as influence “the marvellous free narrative letters of Neal Cassady,” especially the ones that he received in 1950, which led him to discover “a style of my own based on spontaneous get-with-it” that he used in his 1951 scroll version of On the Road. He wrote that he also “learned a lot about unrepressed wordslinging from young Allen Ginsberg and William Seward Burroughs.”

Kerouac stated that the “confessional madness” style of his novel The Subterraneans was based on that of Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground, and that Visions of Gerard was directly influenced by Shakespeare’s Henry V, “the language is so windblown and Shakespearean.”  He also claimed that his later experimental prose piece Old Angel Midnight was inspired by James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, “scribbled out in a strictly intuitional discipline at breakneck speed.”

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Question -  Was Bob Dylan influenced by Jack Kerouac?

 

Dave responds:  Dylan has recently been more forthcoming about his early influences. In both his autobiography, Chronicles, and the documentary film No Direction Home, he talks about the effect that reading Kerouac had on him.

 

He says that On the Road “had been like a bible for me. I loved the breathless, dynamic bop poetry phrases that flowed from Jack’s pen . . . I fell into that atmosphere of everything Kerouac was saying about the world being completely mad, and the only people for him that were interesting were the mad people, the mad ones, the ones who were mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn, all of those mad ones, and I felt like I fit right into that bunch.”

 

But Dylan adds: “One guy gave me a book that Woody Guthrie wrote called Bound For Glory, and I read it. I identified with that book more than I even did with On the Road.”

 

Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg at Kerouac's graveWhen Allen Ginsberg was travelling with Dylan during the Rolling Thunder Review tour of 1975 they visited Lowell, Massachusetts and stopped by Kerouac’s gravestone at Edson Cemetery, where, in a scene which appeared in the movie Renaldo and Clara, they read choruses from Kerouac’s Mexico City Blues. Ginsberg asked Dylan how he knew Kerouac’s poetry and Dylan replied: “Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.” Dylan mentions Mexico City Blues in his song Something’s Burning, Baby from the 1985 album Empire Burlesque.

Kerouac’s influence can also be heard on Dylan’s earlier album, Highway 61 Revisited. Two of the songs, Desolation Row and Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues include direct quotes from Kerouac’s novel Desolation Angels, including the phrases "the perfect image of a priest," "her sin is her lifelessness," and "Housing Project Hill." It is also informative to compare the song title Desolation Row and the phrase "junkyard angel" (used in another of the songs on the album -- From A Buick 6) with the title of Kerouac's book.

 

Desolation Angels was published in May 1965, and Highway 61 Revisited recorded in August 1965. The book was the first major Kerouac work to appear after Dylan began writing songs in the early 1960s. Clearly, Dylan was sufficiently affected by Kerouac's book that he chose to write those phrases into his new songs.

 

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Map of Jack Kerouac's Cross Country tripQuestion: Is there a map of Kerouac's trips cross country?

Dave responds: Concerning a map of Jack's OTR travels, there is one of the 1947-48 journey in the Kerouac ROMnibus. I'm attaching a copy of it here. I hope that helps. (click on picture to enlarge)

 


Question:  I'm trying to figure out if Jack Kerouac used Highway 190 or Highway 90 when he passed through Southwest/SouthCentral Louisiana on his famous On the Road trip with Neal.  

I'm from a small town called Basile. It amazes me that one night in 1949 Jack Kerouac's infamous roadtrip might have passed through my podunk village. My dad was a high school junior then, so I have this idea of a story somehow linking his life to that historic journey in a fictional account. Wish me luck. Any info would be appreciated.

Dave Responds:  In On the Road, Part Two, Chapter 8, Kerouac describes his journey through Louisiana with Neal and LuAnne in January 1949, after leaving William Burroughs' house in Algiers, New Orleans.

They travelled to Baton Rouge, and then on to Port Allen, and through Opelousas, Lawtell, Eunice, Kinder, De Quincy, Starks, and Deweyville, entering Texas at Beaumont. These places are all on Highway 190, the northern of the two routes. Basile is between Eunice and Elton, and Jack and friends would undoubtedly have passed through there some time around the last week of January 1949. Good luck with your story!

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Question:  I know that the events described in Kerouac’s novel The Subterraneans actually took place in New York (rather that San Francisco as portrayed in the book). However, I’d be interested to know whether the bar names used -- the Red Drum, the Black Mask, and Dante’s -- were actual places or just names that Jack made up.

Dave Responds:  They are all names invented by Kerouac. In his reading of a passage from The Subterraneans on his Verve album he actually mentions the real name of one place -- the Open Door -- in parentheses after the Red Drum.

We know that the events described in The Subterraneans took place in the summer of 1953.  Charlie Parker had been playing the Open Door, in New York's Greenwich Village, close to Washington Square, on occasional Sunday nights since its opening that April.  It seems that Jack saw him there sometime in August, as described in the book.  Of the other bars mentioned -- the Black Mask was really the San Remo, and Dante's was Fugazzi's -- both in the Village. You can read more about all of these places in Bill Morgan’s useful book, The Beat Generation in New York: A Walking Tour of Jack Kerouac’s City.

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Question:  I am interested in Mardou Fox (really Alene Lee) of Kerouac's novel The Subterraneans. Can you tell me more about her, and possibly indicate where I might find a photo of her?

Alene LeeDave Responds: Despite the fact that she was undoubtedly one of Kerouac’s main inspirations, there's little to be found about Alene Lee anywhere, and surprisingly, perhaps, nothing at all in those books devoted to the female muses and writers: Women of the Beat Generation, A Different Beat, and Girls Who Wore Black.

Alene Lee was an attractive, intelligent black woman, half-Cherokee. Kerouac met her in the late summer of 1953 when she was typing up the manuscripts of William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, who at that time were sharing an apartment in New York’s Lower East Side.

Bill Morgan's The Beat Generation in New York has a small section on Alene, and a photo of her with William Burroughs in 1953, the time of her romance with Kerouac (p.125).

There's a different photo of Alene with Burroughs from the same time in the anthology The Beat Journey (p.172), and this is reprinted in The Beat Vision (p.208).

The Kerouac ROMnibus contains an excellent photograph of Alene, and Steven Turner's Angelheaded Hipster (p.142) shows Kerouac holding that photo.

On the same page of Turner's book there’s a photograph of Alene with Kerouac from 1953, and this can also be found in David Sandison's biography of Jack Kerouac (p.106).

According to Aram Saroyan's autobiographical work, The Street, in the 1960s Alene was living with Kerouac's old friend Lucien Carr in New York.

Alene also appears as Irene [May] in Kerouac’s other works, Book of Dreams, and Big Sur.

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Question:  I’ve read that, at the famous Six Gallery poetry event in San Francisco, on Friday, October 7, 1955, where Allen Ginsberg first performed Howl, Philip Lamantia was present but did not read his own poetry. Instead he apparently read the poems of his friend, John Hoffman, who had recently died in Mexico. What about Hoffman and his poetry – do you know anything about him?

Dave Responds:  John Hoffman was the poet friend of Philip Lamantia and Gerd Stern. He had died, aged 21, in Mexico from either peyote poisoning or polio. The symptoms, according to William Burroughs, were identical. Hoffman, although unpublished, had become an underground legend by the mid-1950s, and his surviving twenty-nine short poems, collected under the title Journey to the End, were similar to Lamantia's in their surrealism. Lamantia read a selection of Hoffman's poems, rather than his own, at the Six Gallery event. Little has been written about Hoffman, although Gerd Stern describes their times together in his book, An Oral History. He writes about meeting John Hoffman at the San Remo bar in New York and taking a sea voyage on a Norwegian ship to Rio de Janeiro around 1950 during which they were both "writing poetry like mad." He says that "[John] was found on the beach at Zihuatanejo in Mexico dead. What probably happened is he had an overdose and lay down to sleep in the sun, and the drug and the sun killed him."

Carl Solomon (dedicatee of Howl) also knew Hoffman, and writes about him in his book Emergency Messages (p.70): “John was a spaced-out type who called everyone ‘Man’ as did Gerd. When the captain of the ship asked John to bring him soup , John misunderstood and brought the captain a bar of soap.”

Hoffman appears in a couple of Kerouac’s books. He's "John Parkman" in Visions of Cody and "Altman" in The Dharma Bums -- but both appearances are very brief.

From Visions of Cody (1952): "That's what John Parkman did, committed suicide on Peyotl, the new sleeping pill." (p.333) and in The Dharma Bums, "Delicate Francis DePavia [Lamantia] read, from delicate onionskin yellow pages, or pink, ... the poems of his dead chum Altman who'd eaten too much peyote in Chihuahua (or died of polio, one) but read none of his own poems." (p.15)

Hoffman also appears in William Burroughs's Junkie as "one of those junkies" in Mexico City (towards the end of the book). In Poets on the Peaks, John Suiter says that "Almost nothing is known now, or was even then [1955], about John Hoffman" (p.150) and claims that "he was also a minor character in Kerouac's The Subterraneans."  I’ve not been able to substantiate that claim. Does anyone have any suggestions? (Hoffman would have been dead for a couple of years before the events Kerouac writes about in The Subterraneans, 1953.)

A limited edition of 24 copies of Hoffman's Journey to the End collection was published by Kolourmein Press of "Oaktown," California in November 2000. (Suiter, p.304)

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Question:  I have been wondering for some time whether the film script that Kerouac mentions in chapter 11 of book one of On the Road has survived; the "gloomy tale about New York" that Sal [Jack] writes in Mill City, which Remi Boncoeur [Henri Cru] has asked him to do and which Remi takes along to Hollywood to show to a film director. Do you know more about it?

Dave responds:  I once asked Henri Cru about this. He told me that the "famous director and an intimate of W.C. Fields" was Gregory La Cava (1892-1952), father of Henri's friend William Morse La Cava. According to the IMDB: "La Cava is also supposed to have directed some scenes in several of the films of his close friend W.C. Fields when Fields couldn't get along with the directors assigned to him, although there is no official record of this ever happening." Henri didn't know what had happened to the film script that Kerouac wrote.

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Question:  I’ve always liked Kerouac’s description, under the title of  “Joan Rawshanks in the Fog” in Visions of Cody, of watching Joan Crawford making a movie in San Francisco. Can you tell me more about the movie being made, and when it happened?

Dave responds:  The occasion was early 1952, when Jack was staying with Neal and Carolyn Cassady at their home in Russell Street, on San Francisco’s Russian Hill. Jack witnessed the filming while he was out walking one evening, and he went back home and wrote about it. As you correctly say, his account eventually appeared as the "Joan Rawshanks in the Fog" section of Visions of Cody. In it Kerouac writes that the location was on Hyde Street, and Carolyn Cassady, in her autobiography Off the Road claims that it was "only a block away" (from Russell Street). The book San Francisco Noir: The City in Film Noir from 1940 to the Present by Nathaniel Rich, examines forty or more noir movies and reveals the locations in San Francisco where they were shot. The film in question here was Sudden Fear, from a book by Edna Sherry, an exciting noir drama (now available on DVD) starring Jack Palance and Gloria Graham, as well as Crawford. The "white San Francisco apartment house" where Kerouac describes the action taking place was the eleven-story Tamalpais Apartments at 1201 Greenwich Street at Hyde. The same building had been featured in another noir movie -- Dark Passage (1947) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and based on the novel by David Goodis. In that movie one of the female characters falls to her death from a window in the building.

Coincidentally, the home of the Joan Crawford character in Sudden Fear was the mansion at 2800 Scott Street, which was also the address of San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen, who, some five years after the making of the movie was to coin the infamous word "beatnik."

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Question: In the story "The Great Western Bus Ride" (in the March 1970 issue of Esquire), Kerouac describes a solo bus trip from San Francisco to New York. It's winter, and he writes as if he were visiting Montana for the first time. The M&M bar in Butte, Montana, he says, "is the end of my quest for an ideal bar."

Do you know when he wrote this article, and if it is part of some other  work? I checked Lonesome Traveler (not there) and have been searching my dim memory for other mentions of Montana but can only come up with Montana Slim from On the Road.

Dave Responds-   I’m not certain when Kerouac wrote "The Great Western Bus Ride." The piece describes events that happened in February 1949 when Jack was returning from San Francisco to New York. It is known that Kerouac included this journey at the end of Part 2 of his original scroll version of On the Road in April 1951, but was persuaded to remove it before publication of the novel by his editor, Malcolm Cowley, in order to tighten up the action. It is possible that “The Great Western Bus Ride” was either the original piece of writing or else a reworking of it. 

 Kerouac evidently based his description of the trip on a journal account he kept while traveling. This latter has recently been published in Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac (pages 296-313) where you can compare it with "The Great Western Bus Ride." 
 
Kerouac mentions Montana in many of his novels (Visions of Cody, Desolation Angels, Vanity of Duluoz), and also in his poetry (
Mexico City Blues, Book of Blues). His bus ride through the state in 1949 must have made a big impression on him.
 

 

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Jack & Neal on Record

Compiled by Dave Moore

A complete (?) list of recordings which relate to Jack Kerouac and/or Neal Cassady.

The qualification for inclusion is that the item must either refer directly to Jack or Neal, or quote from their work.

Please report any items you feel should be on this list to kerouaczin@aol.com

Jack & Neal on Record
Updated October 7, 2010

ARTIST

TRACK TITLE

DATE

Jack/Neal

ALBUM (if any)

Dizzy Gillespie

Kerouac [improvisation on Exactly Like You, named in 1953]

1941

JACK

The Harlem Jazz Scene -1941

Allen Ginsberg

The Green Automobile

1954

NEAL

Holy Soul Jelly Roll

Allen Ginsberg

Howl (for Carl Solomon)

1956

NEAL

Holy Soul Jelly Roll

Allen Ginsberg

Sunflower Sutra

1956

JACK

Holy Soul Jelly Roll

Ella Fitzgerald

Like Young

1959

JACK

Get Happy

"The Nervous Set"
cast

Fun Life

1959

JACK

The Nervous Set

Lenny Bruce, Steve
Allen

All Alone

1959

JACK

Swear to Tell the Truth (movie soundtrack)

André Previn

The Subterraneans  (movie soundtrack music)

1960

JACK

The Subterraneans

André Previn

Like Blue / Blue Subterranean (from Subterraneans movie)

1960

JACK

Like Blue

Linda Lawson

Like Young

1960

JACK

Introducing Linda Lawson

Don Morrow

Kerouazy

1961

JACK

Grimm's Hip Fairy Tales

Perry Como

Like Young

1961

JACK

For the Young at Heart

Charles Laughton

The Dharma Bums (extract)

1962

JACK

The Story-Teller

The Barrow Poets

Mexico City Blues (104th Chorus)

1963

JACK

An Entertainment of Poetry & Music

Paul Simon

A Simple Desultory Philippic

1965

JACK

The Paul Simon Song Book

David Amram

Summer in the West (from Lonesome Traveller)

1965

JACK

A Year in Our Land

Bob Dylan

Desolation Row

1965

JACK

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

1965

JACK

Highway 61 Revisited

Eric von Schmidt

Lolita

1967

JACK

Take a Trip with Me

Paul Jones

Tarzan, etc...

1967

JACK

Love Me, Love My Friends

Joki Freund Quintett
& Harald Leipnitz

Mordsspektakel

1967

JACK

Amerika (Europa?) – Ich Rede Dich An!

Joki Freund Quintett
& Harald Leipnitz

Charlie Parker – 240th Chorus

1967

JACK

Amerika (Europa?) – Ich Rede Dich An!

Grateful Dead

That's It for the Other One

1968

NEAL

Anthem of the Sun

Four Jacks And A Jill

Master Jack

1968

JACK

Jukebox Hits Of 1968 Vol.2

David Amram, Lynn
Sheffield

Pull My Daisy

1971

JACK

No More Walls

Allen Ginsberg

On Neal's Ashes

1971

NEAL

Holy Soul Jelly Roll

Michel Corringe

Kerouac Jack

1971

JACK

En Public

Bob Weir

Cassidy

1972

NEAL

Ace

Aztec Two-Step

The Persecution & Restoration of Dean Moriarty

1972

JACK&NEAL

Aztec Two-Step

David Amram

East and West

1973

JACK

Subway Night

David Amram

The Fabulous Fifties

1973

JACK

Subway Night

Gary Farr

Mexican Sun (?)

1973

JACK

Addressed to the Censors of Love

Road

Come Back Jack Kerouac

1973

JACK

Road

Mott the Hoople

The Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception

1974

JACK

Brain Capers

Willie Alexander

Kerouac

1975

JACK

Willie Loco Boom Boom Ga Ga

Doobie Brothers

Neal's Fandango

1975

NEAL

Stampede

Al Stewart

Modern Times

1975

JACK

Modern Times

Jethro Tull

From a Dead Beat to an Old Greaser

1976

JACK

Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll

David Amram

Pull My Daisy (live)

1976

JACK

Summer Nights, Winter Rain

Willie Alexander

Kerouac

1976

JACK

Live at The Rat

Tom Waits

Jack & Neal

1977

JACK&NEAL

Foreign Affairs

Willie Alexander

Kerouac

1978

JACK

Willie Alexander & Boom-Boom Band

Sylvain Lelièvre

Kérouac

1978

JACK

Sylvain Lelièvre

Pataphonie

Kerouac (instrumental)

1978

JACK

Le Matin Blanc

The Cooper Brothers

Old Angel Midnight

1978

JACK

The Dream Never Dies

Jack Nitzsche

Heart Beat (movie soundtrack music)

1979

JACK&NEAL

Heart Beat

Dexy's Midnight
Runners

There, There, My Dear

1980

JACK

Searching for the
Young Soul
Rebels

Allen Ginsberg

The Shrouded Stranger

1980

JACK

In Wuppertal: Poems & Songs

Allen Ginsberg

Pull My Daisy

1980

JACK&NEAL

In Wuppertal: Poems & Songs

Allen Ginsberg

Prayer Blues: For John Lennon

1980

JACK

In Wuppertal: Poems & Songs

Allen Ginsberg

Howl (incl. Footnote to Howl)

1980

JACK&NEAL

In Wuppertal: Poems & Songs

Grateful Dead

Cassidy

1981

NEAL

Reckoning

Godley & Creme

Snack Attack

1981

JACK

Ismism

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

912 Greens

1981

JACK

Kerouac's Last Dream

Mark Murphy

Parker's Mood (including Subterraneans extract)

1981

JACK

Bop for Kerouac

Mark Murphy

Ballad of the Sad Young Men (including On the Road extract)

1981

JACK&NEAL

Bop for Kerouac

Emil Mangelsdorff
Quartett

Blues for Allen (i.e. Allen Ginsberg's 'Footnote to Howl')

1981

JACK&NEAL

Das Geheul

Emil Mangelsdorff
Quartett

Rosengärten (excerpt from Ginsberg's 'Howl')

1981

NEAL

Das Geheul

Van Morrison

Cleaning Windows

1982

JACK

Beautiful Vision

David Amram

This Song's for You, Jack

1982

JACK

This Song for Jack (movie soundtrack)

King Crimson

Neal and Jack and Me

1982

JACK&NEAL

Beat

Wah!

The Story of the Blues - Part 2

1982

JACK

The Way We Wah!

Blue Oyster Cult

Burnin' for You

1982

JACK

E.T.I.

Charlélie Couture

La Route (Oui Mais Kérouac est Mort)

1982

JACK

Quoi Faire

David J.

With the Indians Permanent

1983

JACK&NEAL

Etiquette of Violence

Graham Parker

Sounds Like Chains

1983

JACK

The Real Macaw

Steve Tilston

B Movie

1983

JACK

In for a Penny ... In for a Pound

The Smiths

Pretty Girls Make Graves

1984

JACK

The Smiths

The Icicle Works

When It All Comes Down

1985

JACK

Seven Singles Deep

The Long Ryders

Southside of the Story

1985

JACK&NEAL

Looking for Lewis & Clark (10" single)

Van Morrison

Cleaning Windows

1985

JACK

Live at Grand Opera House Belfast

Bob Dylan

Something's Burning, Baby

1985

JACK

Empire Burlesque

King Crimson

Neal and Jack and Me (live)

1985

JACK&NEAL

The Noise-Frejus 82

It's Immaterial

Driving Away from Home (Dead Man's Curve mix)

1986

JACK

Ed's Funky Diner (12" single)

Minor Characters

1972

1986

JACK

Minor Characters (7" ep)

Andy Summers

Search for Kerouac (instrumental)

1986

JACK

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

David Carradine

reading from On the Road

1986

JACK&NEAL

On the Road (double cassette)

East Buffalo Media
Association

Sea (from Big Sur)

1986

JACK

Sea

East Buffalo Media
Association

Mantra for Kerouac

1986

JACK

Sea

Jesse Garon & the
Desperadoes

The Rain Fell Down

1986

JACK

A Cabinet of Curiosities

The Go-Betweens

The House That Jack Kerouac Built

1987

JACK

Tallulah

Marillion

Torch Song

1987

JACK

Clutching at Straws

10,000 Maniacs

Hey Jack Kerouac

1987

JACK

In My Tribe

The Panic Brothers

Bivouac

1987

JACK

In the Red

Hobo

Üvöltés (Howl) – Carl Solomonért – részletek (Hungarian)

1987

NEAL

Üvöltés

Pierre Flynn

Sur la Route

1987

JACK

Le Parfum du Hasard

Richard Séguin

L'Ange Vagabond

1988

JACK

Journée d'Amerique

Beatnik Beatch

Beatnik Beatch

1988

JACK

Beatnik Beatch

David Amram

Pull My Daisy

1988

JACK

Pull My Daisy & Other Jazz Classics

Crash Harmony

(Mexico) Jack Kerouac Is Dead

1988

JACK

(Wesleyan University radio tape)

Roger Manning

Pearly Blues

1989

JACK

Roger Manning

Billy Joel

We Didn't Start the Fire

1989

JACK

Storm Front

Eric Andersen

Ghosts upon the Road

1989

JACK&NEAL

Ghosts upon the Road

The Washington
Squares

(Did You Hear) Neal Cassady Died?

1989

JACK&NEAL

Fair and Square

Mark Murphy

San Francisco (including Big Sur extract)

1989

JACK&NEAL

Kerouac Then and Now

Mark Murphy

November in the Snow (including On the Road extract)

1989

JACK&NEAL

Kerouac Then and Now

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

912 Greens

1989

JACK

Legends of Folk

Jackson Sloane

Jack Kerouac Said

1989

JACK

Old Angel Midnight

The Beastie Boys

3-Minute Rule

1989

JACK

Paul's Boutique

Mike Heron

Mexican Girl

1989

JACK

The Glen Row Tapes

Robert Kraft

The Beat Generation

1989

JACK&NEAL

Quake City

Steve Earle

The Other Kind

1990

JACK

The Hard Way

Everything But The
Girl

Me and Bobby D

1990

JACK

The Language of Life

Adam Ant

Anger Inc.

1990

JACK

Manners and Physique

R.B. and the Irregulars

Spy in My Brain

1990

JACK&NEAL

Local Man

Les David Vincent

Kerouac Way

1990

JACK

Ourouni

Tynal Tywyll

Jack Kerouac (in Welsh)

1990

JACK

Jack Kerouac / Boomerang (single)

Elliott Murphy

Ballad of Sal Paradise

1990

JACK&NEAL

Affairs, etc.

Van Morrison

On Hyndford Street

1991

JACK

Hymns to the Silence

Pete Wylie and Wah!

Don't Lose Your Dreams

1991

JACK

Infamy

Allen Ginsberg

reading from The Dharma Bums

1991

JACK

The Dharma Bums (double cassette)

A House

Endless Art

1991

JACK

I Am the Greatest

John Gorka

The Ballad of Jamie Bee

1991

JACK

Jack's Crows

Suzanne Vega

Cassidy

1991

NEAL

Deadicated: Tribute to Grateful Dead

R.E.M.

Kerouac No.4

1991

JACK

Outtakes of Time (bootleg)

Mingus Dynasty

Harlene

1991

JACK

Next Generation Performs Mingus

Terry Riley

Mexico City Blues Suite: 224th, 204th & 216th-B Choruses

1991

JACK

June Buddhas

Tom Parker

reading The Dharma Bums (unabridged)

1992

JACK&NEAL

The Dharma Bums (5 cassettes or 6 CDs)

Jerry Jeff Walker

The Man He Used to Be

1992

JACK

Hill Country Rain

Sweet Lizard Illtet

Mutiny Zoo

1992

JACK

Sweet Lizard Illtet

STS

Unterwegs

1992

JACK

Auf Tour

Everything But The
Girl

Me and Bobby D

1992

JACK

Acoustic

Jasmine Love Bomb

An Announcement

1992

JACK

Fun With Mushrooms

Loudon Wainwright III

Road Ode

1993

JACK

Career Moves

Jawbreaker

Boxcar

1993

JACK

24 Hour Revenge Therapy

United Future
Organization

Poetry and All That Jazz

1993

JACK

United Future Organization

Naked Soul

You, Me & Jack Kerouac

1993

JACK

Visiting Your Planet

Barrence Whitfield
with Tom Russell

Cleaning Windows 

1993

JACK

Hillbilly Voodoo

10,000 Maniacs

Hey Jack Kerouac (live)

1993

JACK

MTV Unplugged

"Ranger Will"
Hodgson

Smokin' Charlie's Saxophone

1993

JACK&NEAL

(unissued studio recording)

Colin Vearncombe

Call of the Narc

1993

JACK

Don't Take the Silence Too Hard (CD single)

Dashboard Saviors

Sal Paradise

1993

JACK

Spinnin On Down

Dave Graney ‘n’ The
Coral Snakes

Maggie Cassidy

1993

JACK

Night of the Wolverine

The Zimmermans

Love Saxophone

1994

JACK

Cut

Peter Droge

Straylin Street

1994

JACK

Necktie Second

Weezer

Holiday

1994

JACK

Weezer

Bad Religion

Stranger Than Fiction

1994

JACK

Stranger Than Fiction

Michael Smith

Ballad of Elizabeth Dark

1994

JACK

Time

Hersch Silverman

The Jack Kerouac Blues

1994

JACK

Channel Nine with Hersch Silverman

Divine Comedy

The Booklovers

1994

JACK

Promenade

Lee Ranaldo

Spring

1994

JACK

Envisioning

Jawbreaker (outro: JK
w. Steve Allen)

Condition Oakland

1994

JACK

24 Hour Revenge Therapy

Matthew Good

Euphony

1994

JACK

Euphony

Tom Parker

reading On the Road (unabridged)

1995

JACK&NEAL

On the Road (7 cassettes or 9 CDs)

Loudon Wainwright III

Cobwebs

1995

JACK

Grown Man

Dmitri Matheny

The Myth of the Rainy Night

1995

JACK

Red Reflections

Terrell

Toystore

1995

JACK&NEAL

Angry Southern Gentleman

Graham Parker with
David Amram

reading from The Town and the City

1995

JACK

A Kerouac ROMnibus

Graham Parker with
David Amram

reading from Visions of Cody

1995

JACK&NEAL

A Kerouac ROMnibus

Graham Parker with
David Amram

reading from The Subterraneans

1995

JACK

A Kerouac ROMnibus

Michael McClure

reading from Mexico City Blues

1995

JACK

A Kerouac ROMnibus

Ann Charters

reading from Mexico City Blues

1995

JACK

A Kerouac ROMnibus

Daniel Lavoie

Nantucket

1995

JACK

Ici

Eric Taylor

Dean Moriarty

1995

JACK&NEAL

Eric Taylor

Jon Hassell

Sulla Strada

1995

JACK

I Magazzini

Reg E. Gaines

Ode to Jack Kerouac

1995

JACK

Sweeper Don’t Clean My Street

Fatboy Slim

Neal Cassady Starts Here [with voice of Ken Babbs]

1995

NEAL

Santa Cruz (12" single)

Tony Imbo

Streaking The Days Asunder

1995

JACK

 

Cracker

Big Dipper

1996

JACK

The Golden Age

Graham Parker with
David Amram

reading from Visions of Cody

1996

JACK&NEAL

Visions of Cody (double cassette)

Allen Ginsberg

reading Mexico City Blues

1996

JACK

Mexico City Blues (double cassette)

Holy Barbarians

Bodhisattva

1996

JACK

Cream

David Byrne

It Goes Back (from Origins of Beat Generation)

1996

JACK

Off Beat: A Red Hot Sound Trip

Mike Heron

Mexican Girl

1996

JACK

Where the Mystics Swim

Aztec Two-Step

The Persecution & Restoration of Dean Moriarty

1996

JACK&NEAL

Highway Signs: 25th Anniversary Concert

Fun Lovin' Criminals

Come Find Yourself

1996

JACK

Come Find Yourself

The Gathering Field

Lost In America

1996

JACK

Lost In America

The Gathering Field

Are You an Angel?

1996

JACK

Lost In America

The Gathering Field

Midnight Ghost

1996

JACK

Lost In America

I Mother Earth

Hello Dave

1996

JACK

Scenery & Fish

BR5-49

Bettie, Bettie

1996

JACK&NEAL

Live From Robert's (ep)

Mike Plume Band

various

1996

JACK

Jump Back Kerouac

Major Nelson

Living Like Kerouac

1996

JACK

Big Stir

The Bloodhound Gang

Asleep At The Wheel

1996

JACK

One Fierce Beer Coaster

Carolyn Cassady

reading from Off The Road

1996

JACK&NEAL

Women of the Beat Generation (4 cassettes)

Ruth Weiss

reading from Nobody’s Wife ( by Joan Haverty)

1996

JACK

Women of the Beat Generation (4 cassettes)

Joyce Johnson

reading from Minor Characters

1996

JACK

Women of the Beat Generation (4 cassettes)

Mary Norbert Körte

reading from Trainsong (by Jan Kerouac)

1996

JACK

Women of the Beat Generation (4 cassettes)

Anne Waldman

I Am The Guard!

1996

JACK

Women of the Beat Generation (4 cassettes)

Holy Barbarians

It Ain't Over Yet (For Jack Kerouac)

1997

JACK

Beat.itude, A New Jazz Beat

Morphine

Kerouac

1997

JACK

B-Sides & Otherwise

various artists

various readings from Kerouac's work

1997

JACK

Kerouac - Kicks Joy Darkness

Graham Parker with
David Amram

reading from Kerouac's unpublished journals 1949-50

1997

JACK

Kerouac - Kicks Joy Darkness (Japanese edition)

Matt Dillon

The Thrashing Doves

1997

JACK

Kerouac - Kicks Joy Darkness (Japanese edition)

Lydia Lunch

How to Meditate + Mexican Loneliness

1997

JACK

Kerouac - Kicks Joy Darkness (Japanese edition)

Belle and Sebastian

Le Pastie de la Burgeoisie

1997

JACK

3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light

Subincision

Kerouac

1997

JACK&NEAL

Subincision

Silent Bear

Kerouac's Child

1997

JACK

River Drum Child

Patti Smith

Spell (i.e. "Footnote to Howl" by Allen Ginsberg)

1997

JACK&NEAL

Peace and Noise

Bob Martin

The Old Worthen

1997

JACK

The River Turns the Wheel

Bob Martin

Stella Kerouac

1997

JACK

The River Turns the Wheel

RatDog

Cassidy

1997

NEAL

Furthur More

Umka

Kerouac (Treplo)

1997

JACK

Dozhili, Mama

various artists

The Last Time I Committed Suicide (soundtrack music & talk)

1997

NEAL

The Last Time I Committed Suicide

X Generation

Sal's Paradise

1997

JACK

Kerouac's Legacy

X Generation

Nebraskan Dawn (Dedicated to Cody)

1997

NEAL

Kerouac's Legacy

Beat Hotel

Beathotel

1997

JACK

Beathotel

DJs Wally & Swingsett

Smoking Up The Music

1997

JACK

Dog Leg Left

Conrad

Jack Kerouac

1997

JACK

Conrad

The Dinner Is Ruined

I Ain’t No Neal Cassidy

1997

NEAL

Elevator Music for Non-Claustrophobic People

The Lord High Fixers

Sal Paradise Delegation

1997

JACK

Group Improvisation That’s Music

Headswim

Old Angel Midnight

1997

JACK

Despite Yourself

Sportfreunde Stiller

On the Road - Unterwegs

1998

JACK&NEAL

Thonträger

Dr. John

John Gris

1998

JACK (?)

Anutha Zone

Umka

Kerouac (Treplo) (live)

1998

JACK

Live in Fakel

Mike Heron & Robin
Williamson

Mexican Girl

1998

JACK

Bloomsbury 1997

Jim Dunleavy

Lonesome Travelers

1998

JACK

Steady Rollin'

David Amram

This Song's for You, Jack

1998

JACK

(Rebels - documentary soundtrack)

Tom Parker

reading Big Sur (unabridged)

1998

JACK&NEAL

Big Sur (4 cassettes or 5 CDs)

Jeremy Gloff

Kerouac’s Dead

1998

JACK

Jeremy Gloff, 1998, Vol.9

Beekler

Dean Moriarty

1998

NEAL

In Layman’s Terms

Richard Bicknell

Dean Moriarty

1998

NEAL

Mayflower

Ron Whitehead

The Other

1998

JACK

Tapping My Own Phone

Ron Whitehead

San Francisco, May 1993

1998

JACK

Tapping My Own Phone

Ron Whitehead

Asheville

1998

NEAL

Tapping My Own Phone

Five Iron Frenzy

Superpowers

1998

JACK

Our Newest Album Ever

David Nelson

Kerouac

1999

JACK&NEAL

Visions under the Moon

Tom Waits with Primus

On the Road

1999

JACK

Jack Kerouac reads On the Road

Guy Clark

Cold Dog Soup

1999

JACK

Cold Dog Soup

R.B. Morris

Distillery

1999

JACK

Zeke and the Wheel

Hot Sauce Johnson

Jack Kerouac

1999

JACK

Truck Stop Jug Hop

Richard Thompson

Sibella

1999

JACK

Mock Tudor

Patti Smith

Spell (live)

1999

JACK&NEAL

Gung Ho Giveaway

Robert Briggs

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg

1999

JACK

Poetry & the 1950s: Homage to the Beat Generation

Michael Johnathon

Kerouac Alley

1999

JACK

The Road

Christian Brückner

Beat-Glückselig (from Origins of Beat Generation)

1999

JACK&NEAL

Brückner Beat

Mary Gauthier

Drag Queens In Limousines

1999

JACK

Drag Queens In Limousines

Helen Shapiro

32nd Chorus from Orlando Blues

1999

JACK

Jazz Poetry

Ian Dury

Skid Row Wine

1999

JACK

Beat Poetry (2 CDs)

Anne Waldman

Hymn

1999

JACK

Beat Poetry (2 CDs)

Anne Waldman

Pome on Doctor Sax

1999

JACK

Beat Poetry (2 CDs)

David Alpher

Tribute to Kerouac

1999

JACK

American Reflections

Josh Lamkin

Kerouac’s Advice

1999

JACK

UNCA Music Biz

Gregory Wiest et al

Chorus 172 (from Mexico City Blues)

1999

JACK

Beat

Frank Muller

reading On the Road (unabridged)

1999

JACK&NEAL

On the Road (10 CDs or 8 cassettes)

Alexander Adams

reading On the Road (unabridged)

1999

JACK&NEAL

On the Road (9 CDs or 8 cassettes)

Blue Room

Jack Kerouac

1999

JACK

Into the Night

Guy Forsyth

Children of Jack

1999

JACK

Can You Live Without

Jonathan Marosz

reading The Dharma Bums (unabridged)

2000

JACK&NEAL

The Dharma Bums (5 cassettes)

Grover Gardner

reading Orpheus Emerged (unabridged)

2000

JACK

Orpheus Emerged (3 CDs)

Kevn Kinney

Kerouac

2000

JACK

The Flower & the Knife

Kurt Elling

The Rent Party

2000

JACK

Live in Chicago

Leona Naess

Charm Attack

2000

JACK (?)

Comatised

Umka

Kerouac (Treplo)

2000

JACK

Dandelion Cinema

Brian Hassett

All of Us / Hearing Shearing  (including On the Road extract)

2000

JACK

(live at CBGB's, NYC, April 12)

Guy Clark

Cold Dog Soup (live)

2000

JACK

(Austin City Limits performance)

The Mighty Manatees
with David Amram

Smokin' Charlie's Saxophone

2000

JACK&NEAL

(live at Bitter End, NYC, April 22)

Ralph

Goodbye Jack. Kerouac

2000

JACK

This Is for the Night People

Ralph

Pull My Daisy

2000

JACK

This Is for the Night People

Cosmic Rough Riders

Ungrateful

2000

JACK

Deliverance

Matt Dillon

reading On the Road (unabridged)

2000

JACK&NEAL

On the Road (10 CDs)

Barenaked Ladies

Car Seat

2000

JACK

Maroon

Phased 4°F

Jack-Off All Trades

2000

JACK

Painfield (10" ep)

Allan Taylor

Kerouac's Dream

2000

JACK

Colour To The Moon

The Spanish Armada

Baby Fever (Kerouac mix)

2000

JACK

Brave New Girl

Shawn Mullins

North On 95

2000

JACK

Beneath The Velvet Sun

Bell X1

Beautiful Madness

2000

JACK&NEAL

Neither Am I

Flanagan Ingham
Quartet

Textile Lunch on Moody St. (suite - 4 tracks)

2000

JACK

Textile Lunch

David Amram et al

various

2001

JACK&NEAL

Spirit: A Tribute to Jack Kerouac

Graham Cournoyer

One For Jack

2001

JACK

One For Jack

Anne Waldman

Jack Kerouac Dream

2001

JACK

Alchemical Elegy

John Gorka

Oh Abraham

2001

JACK

The Company You Keep

Michael Ubaldini

Old Angel Midnight (Song to Kerouac)

2001

JACK

American Blood

Tony Imbo

Streaking The Days Asunder (remix)

2001

JACK

Reinventing Man

Don Michael Sampson

Come On Jack

2001

JACK

Black Flower

Zwan

Freedom Ain’t What It Used To Be

2001

JACK

Honestly (CD single)

Ron Whitehead

Psychic Supper

2001

JACK

Hozomeen Jam (EP)

Railroad Earth

Railroad Earth

2001

JACK

The Black Bear Session

Migala

Kerouac

2002

JACK

Diciembre, 3 a.m.

Dale Morningstar

2000 Kerouac Girl

2002

JACK

I Grew Up On Sodom Road

John Hasbrouck

Kerouac Alone in Des Moines

2002

JACK

Ice Cream

Guided by Voices

Kerouac Never Drove, So He Never Drove Alone

2002

JACK

Tropic of Nipples

Curse, with David
Amram & Marc Ribot

Pull My Daisy

2002

JACK

Pull My Daisy / Graveyard Shuffle (single)

Valerie Lagrange

Kerouac

2002

JACK

Fleuve Congo

Our Lady Peace

All For You

2002

JACK

Gravity

David McMillin

The Legend of Jack Kerouac

2002

JACK

Where I Belong

Spitznagel

Kerouac’s Treehouse

2002

JACK

Under the Plane

Kenn Kweder

Jack Kerouac

2002

JACK

Kwederology Vol.1

Kenn Kweder

Cassady’s Bible

2002

NEAL

Kwederology Vol.1

Chris Keup

Close Your Eyes Maggie Cassidy

2002

JACK

The Subject of Some Regret

BAP

Schluss, Aus, OK!

2002

JACK

Schluss, Aus, Okay (CD single)

Goodman County

Kerouac Sings the Blues

2002

JACK

Pictures from a Moving Vehicle

Meltzer, Pollard,
Smegma

Kerouac Never Drove, So He Never Drove Alone

2002

JACK

Tropic of Nipples

Robert Creeley et al

Doctor Sax and the Great World Snake (Kerouac’s screenplay)

2003

JACK

Doctor Sax and the Great World Snake (2 CDs)

Eric Andersen

Beat Avenue

2003

JACK

Beat Avenue

Allan Taylor

The Beat Hotel

2003

JACK

Hotels and Dreamers

Spitalfield

I Loved The Way She Said L.A.

2003

JACK

Remember Right Now

Steve Lacy

Wave Lover (from Lucien Midnight)

2003

JACK

The Beat Suite

Alfred Howard

Kerouac Incarnate

2003

JACK

14 Days of the Universe in Incandescent Bloom

Jack Shea, JD
Caioulet, & J
Sanderson

On The Road

2003

JACK

Who Owns Jack Kerouac? (movie soundtrack)

Jack Shea, JD
Caioulet, & J
Sanderson

Jack Reaches God

2003

JACK

Who Owns Jack Kerouac? (movie soundtrack)

Ron Whitehead &
David Amram

To Dream In Kerouac’s Playground

2003

JACK

Kentucky Blues

Ron Whitehead &|
David Amram

Amram’s Kentucky Rap

2003

JACK

Kentucky Blues

Julie Geller

The American Night (Kerouac's Song)

2003

JACK

This Road

Mars Arizona

Railroad Song

2003

JACK

Love Songs from the Apocalypse

Reckless Kelly

Desolation Angels

2003

JACK

Under the Table & Above the Sun

Rusted Root

Jack Kerouac

2004

JACK

Rusted Root Live

Seedy Gonzales

Kerouac & Burroughs

2004

JACK

Seedy Gonzales

Walter T. Ryan

Burnin’ (Like a Kerouac Coyote)

2004

JACK

Underdog American Music

Max Joshua
Klaooerman

In Spiteful Dedication Jack Kerouac

2004

JACK

This Side of Everywhere: Poet’s Monday

Mark Boucot

Cassady’s Ashes

2004

NEAL

Mark Boucot

Mark Boucot

Beatific Nights

2004

JACK

Mark Boucot

Manual & Syntaks

Sal Paradise

2004

JACK

Golden Sun

Kevn Kinney

Epilogue Epitaph In A Minor

2004

JACK

Sun Tangled Angel Revival

Erin Jordan

Road to Eureka

2004

JACK

Land of Milk and Honey

Styrofoam (feat. Ben
Gibbard)

Couches in Alleys

2004

JACK

Nothing's Lost

The Go-Betweens

The House That Jack Kerouac Built

2004

JACK

Live in London

Tom Russell

Border Lights

2005

JACK

Hotwalker: Charles Bukowski & A Ballad For Gone America

Tom Russell

Harry Partch, Jack Kerouac, Lenny Bruce

2005

JACK

Hotwalker: Charles Bukowski & A Ballad For Gone America

Bap Kennedy

Rock and Roll Heaven

2005

JACK&NEAL

The Big Picture

Bap Kennedy

Moriarty’s Blues [with voice of Carolyn Cassady]

2005

JACK&NEAL

The Big Picture

Gang 90

Jack Kerouac

2005

JACK

Sexual Life of the Savages

Rock N Roll Monkey &
the Robots

Toss it Back Like Kerouac

2005

JACK

Detroit Trauma

Ron Whitehead

Searching For David Amram

2005

JACK

Closing Time

Ron Whitehead

Allen Ginsberg: The Bridge, Parts 2 & 3

2005

JACK

Closing Time

Ron Whitehead

From Hank Williams’ Grave

2005

JACK&NEAL

Closing Time

Ron Whitehead

Calling The Toads

2005

JACK

Closing Time

Jimmy LaFave

Bohemian Cowboy Blues

2005

JACK

Blue Nightfall

Laura Ranieri

Like Kerouac

2005

JACK

Southbound

Sage Francis

Escape Artist

2005

JACK

A Healthy Distrust

The Clients

Dharma Bum

2005

JACK

Straycat

Denny Brown

Keouac "On the Road"

2006

JACK&NEAL

No Middle Ground

Haiku

various tracks with a selection from Kerouac's haiku

2006

JACK

The Kerouac Project

Jeff Root

Kerouac King Kong

2006

JACK

Kerouac King Kong

Jim Dickinson

Maggie Cassidy

2006

JACK

Fishing with Charlie and Other Selected Readings

Jonathan Byerley

I Got Over Kerouac

2006

JACK

Hymns and Fragments

Mads Oustal

På kjøret (= On the Road in Norwegian)

2006

JACK&NEAL

På kjøret (10 CDs)

Milagro Saints

Kerouac

2006

JACK

Let It Rain

Orko

Hello Dean Moriarty

2006

NEAL

Creating Short Fiction

The Daisy Cutters

Second Hand Kerouac

2006

JACK

Lines and Sinkers (The E.P. Years)

The Hold Steady

Stuck Between Stations

2006

JACK

Boys and Girls in America

Tom Waits

Home I'll Never Be

2006

JACK

Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards

Tom Waits

On the Road

2006

JACK

Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards

Top Models

Kerouac

2006

JACK

To the Maximum

Beekler

Dean Moriarty

2007

NEAL

In Layman's Terms

Jocelyn Arem

Kerouac

2007

JACK

What the Mirror Said

Mark Handley & The
Bone Idols

Jack Kerouak AKA Anywhere But Here

2007

JACK

The Land of Song

Michael Hansonis

Unterwegs (= On the Road in German, abridged)

2007

JACK&NEAL

Unterwegs (6 CDs)

Mudvayne

On the Move

2007

JACK

By the People, for the People

Steven Light & the
Black Sand

Cassady

2007

NEAL

Sweet Transmission

The Weather
Underground

Neal Cassady

2007

NEAL

Psalms & Shanties

Will Patton

On the Road

2007

JACK&NEAL

On the Road (10 CDs)

Tim Minchin

Inflatable You

2007

JACK

So Live (DVD)

 

On the Road (Penguin Readers simplified text)

2008

JACK&NEAL

On the Road (Penguin Readers audio CD)

BAP

Wat für e' Booch

2008

JACK&NEAL

Radio Pandora (plugged)

Blackwater Tribe

Jack Realized Beat

2008

JACK

Blackwater Runs Deep

Clifton Roy &
Folkstringer

Kerouac's Folksong

2008

JACK

Where the Rock Meets the Rail

Danny Campbell

Wake Up - A Life of the Buddha

2008

JACK

Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha (5CDs)

David Anderson

Recollections of Neal Cassady

2008

NEAL

Layover in Reno

David Anderson

Recollections of Neal Cassady

2008

NEAL&JACK

Layover in Reno

Five Iron Frenzy (live)

Superpowers

2008

JACK

Proof That the Youth are Revolting

Individual

Kerouac

2008

JACK

Fantastic Smile

John Ventimiglia

On the Road - The Original Scroll

2008

JACK&NEAL

On the Road (10 CDs)

Joy Askew

Kerouac

2008

JACK

The Pirate of Eel Pie

Ray Porter

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

2008

JACK

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (4 CDs)

Steve Allee Sextet

Kerouac (instrumental)

2008

JACK

New York in the Fifties (soundtrack)

Swallows

Kerouac

2008

JACK

Songs for Strippers (and other professions)

The Areola Treat

Kerouac

2008

JACK

The Areola Treat

The Five Corners
Quintet, feat. Mark
Murphy

Kerouac Days in Montana

2008

JACK

Hot Corner

The Maple State

Starts with Dean Moriarty

2008

NEAL

Say Scientists

Tim Young Band

Kerouac

2008

JACK

The Cost

Van Bluus (vocal.
Horst Spandler)

White Boy Blue

2008

JACK

White Boy Blue

William S. Burroughs

Speaking of Jack Kerouac / various readings

2008

JACK

A Spoken Breakdown

Yer Cronies

Kerouac

2008

JACK

When I Grow Up

BAP

Unterwegs/Blue in Green

2009

JACK&NEAL

Live und in Farbe

BAP

Wat für e' Booch

2009

JACK&NEAL

Live und in Farbe

Chris Hickey

Kerouac

2009

JACK&NEAL

Razzmatazz

Frank Turner

Poetry of the Deed

2009

JACK

Poetry of the Deed

Jay Farrar & Benjamin
Gibbard

various tracks /soundtrack

2009

JACK

One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Music From Kerouac's Big Sur

Tereu Tereu

Neal Cassady

2009

NEAL

All That Keeps Us Together

The Low Anthem

Home I'll Never Be

2009

JACK

Oh My God, Charlie Darwin

Wreak Havoc

Kerouac's Ghost

2009

JACK

Abandon Everything

Felix Goeser / Florian
von Manteuffel

Und die Nilpferde kochten in ihren Becken (Hippos)

2010

JACK

Und die Nilpferde kochten in ihren Becken (4CDs)

The 757s

Kerouac

2010

JACK

Last Laugh

Thanks to Ralph Alfonzo, Dan Barth, Adrien Begrand, Frank Bor, Richard Cooper, Diane De Rooy, Neil Douglas, Brian Hassett, John Low, Chris Moore, Frances Moore, Michael Powell, Stephen Ronan, and alphabetically last but by no means least, Horst Spandler.

 

Thanks to Ralph Alfonzo, Dan Barth, Adrien Begrand, Frank Bor, Diane De Rooy, Neil Douglas, Brian Hassett, John Low, Frances Moore, Michael Powell, Stephen Ronan,

and, alphabetically last but by no means least, Horst Spandler.

 

 

 

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