Unfortunately, the Continental Drifters were, in their own special ways, doomed to fail. Not because they didn't have the goods. Not because they didn't have the songs, and certainly not because they didn't have the players. Instead, the journey depicted in Sean Kelly's 'White Noise & Lightning: The Continental Drifters Story' from a foundational start in California to pre-Katrina New Orleans echoed their stubborn refusal to ever acquiesce to the hassles and the hurts - the business - of music again. They'd had success with the Bangles, the Cowsills and the dB's, but they'd also been burned. This binded them together, through marriage and drink, hurricane and divorce, even while it kept them from the wider notice they so richly deserved. Kelly traces this winding road toward final acceptance of a shared musical fate using the Continental Drifters' voices. Who better to reveal the deeply personal reasons why this band will always be so criminally overlooked? Along the way, 'White Noise & Lightning' creates a striking and strikingly honest intimacy. No, they never had a big hit. They traded kinship for it - and Kelly captures it beautifully.

-Nick DeRiso, author of Journey: Worlds Apart and five-time newspaper columnist of the year

The Continental Drifters have always been, to fans like me, one of those bands that slipped through the cracks...the kind of band that "it should have happened" for.

In White Noise & Lightning: The Continental Drifters Story, Sean Kelly dismantles that view, making it crystal clear that just about everything imaginable did, in fact, happen.

And then some.

An astonishing assemblage of talent, wholeheartedly and lovingly drifting without a master plan through multiple record deals, romances, breakups, babies, lineup changes, reunions, addictions, hurricanes, deaths...mainstream success is quite clearly the only thing they didn't navigate together.

The records will always, beautifully, speak for themselves.

And now, Sean's book will always serve as the perfect companion piece.

Read it. Today.

-Steve Gorman, former Black Crowes drummer and author of Hard to Handle: The Life and Death of the Black Crowes

Sean Kelly, a passionate fan and natural storyteller, has produced a band bio that, like its subject, is messy and triumphant. Looking for a breathtaking ride? All aboard the locomotive that is the Continental Drifters' story!