Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, Willy Mason & more contribute to album based on Jack Kerouac novel Tristessa

A new compilation album is out this week, based on beat poet Jack Kerouac‘s 1960 novella Tristessa.

The release, Esperanza: Songs From Jack Kerouac’s Tristessa features contributions from 19 singer-songwriters; including Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, Willy Mason, The Low Anthem, Matt Costa, Hey Rosetta! and more.

“There’s a musicality in both his prose and poetry that worked well,” said producer Jim Sampas about the book, which focusses on a drug-addicted Mexican prostitute of the same name.

Find out more info on the release here.

[via Billboard]