by Simon Warner
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 and 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 and Neal
On the Road (10 CDs)
Tim Minchin
‘Inflatable You’
2007
Jack
So Live (DVD)
On the Road (Penguin Readers simplified text)
2008
Jack and Neal
On the Road (Penguin Readers audio CD)
BAP
‘Wat fur e’ Booch’
2008
Jack and 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 (5 CDs)
David Anderson
‘Recollections of Neal Cassady’
2008
Neal and Jack
Layover in Reno
Five Iron Frenzy
‘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 and 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 and Neal
Live und in Farbe
BAP
‘Wat fur e’ Booch’
2009
Jack and Neal
Live und in Farbe
Chris Hickey
‘Kerouac’
2009
Jack and Neal
Razzmatazz
Frank Turner
‘Poetry of the Deed’
2009
Jack
Poetry of the Deed
Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard
Various tracks/One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: Music From Kerouac’s Big Sur (movie soundtrack)
2009
Jack
One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: Music From Kerouac’s Big Sur (movie soundtrack)
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
Chuck Perrin
‘It Ain’t Over Yet (for Jack Kerouac)’
2009
Jack
Beat.titude – The Holy Barbarians
Bob Martin
‘Jack Kerouac’
2009
Jack
Live tt The Bull Run
Bob Martin
‘Stella Kerouac’
2009
Jack
Live at The Bull Run
R.B. Morris
‘Spy in the Brain’
2010
Jack and Neal
Spies Lies and Burning Eyes
R.B. Morris
‘Father Fisheye’
2010
Jack
Spies Lies and Burning Eyes
Felix Goeser/Florian von Manteuffel
‘Und die Nilpferde kochten in ihren Becken (Hippos)’
2010
Jack
Und die Nilpferde kochten in ihren Becken (4 CDs)
Billy Koumantzelis
Various narrations
2010
Jack
On the Lowell Beat: My Time With Jack Kerouac
The 757s
‘Kerouac’
2010
Jack
Last Laugh
Papa Razzi & the Photogs
‘Jack Kerouac Celebrated a Group of Irresponsible Dudes’
2010
Jack
Songs About Great Literary Giants
Brooke Fraser
‘Jack Kerouac’
2010
Jack
Flags
Thieves and Villains
‘Song For Dean Moriarty’
2010
Neal
South America
Frisco Jenny
‘La Balada de Dean Moriarty’
2010
Neal
El Dolor del Escorpion
Andrew McConathy
‘Dean Moriarty’s Blues’
2010
Neal
Light of the Eye
Mort Weiss & Peter Marx
Readings of Kerouac
2011
Jack
Mort Weiss Meets Bill Cunliffe
Alanna Eileen
‘Cassady and Kerouac’
2012
Jack and Neal
(single)
C.P. Carrington
‘Ph
antom Thumb’
2012
Jack
The Valley
C.P. Carrington
‘Neal Cassady, Parts 1 & 2’
2012
Neal
The Valley
C.P. Carrington
‘Counting Tracks’
2012
Neal
The Valley
Spielgusher
‘Kerouac’
2012
Jack
Spielgusher
Gustavo Santaolalla et al.
On the Road (movie soundtrack)
2012
Jack and Neal
On the Road: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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.
To view online, visit: http://www.beatbookcovers.com/music/
Author’s note: Thank you to compilers Dave Moore and Horst Spandler for granting permission to use this material.
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