Interview #9: John Allen Cassady

Rock and the Beat Generation speaks to one of the legends of the next generation who followed in the wake of the Beats. The only son of Neal and Carolyn Cassady talks family, life, music & Kerouac

DURING THE later 1940s and 1950s, Neal Cassady was the bosom buddy of Jack Kerouac. After meeting initially in New York City in 1946, their travels across America in the years that followed became the model for Kerouac’s most famous novel On the Road.

But Cassady, who lived a roving life always seeking opportunities for excitement, was more than just the…