White Noise & Lightning: The Continental Drifters Story follows ten disparate musicians from humble beginnings at a dive bar residency in Los Angeles through lineup changes, addiction, marriages, divorces, and industry letdowns. 

The Continental Drifters, composed of members of The Bangles, The Cowsills, The Dream Syndicate, The dB's, and more, found each because they'd been burned by the music industry and sought refuge in a freewheeling environment where they could experiment without constraint. When everything fell apart in New Orleans a decade later, they ended up with so much more. 

Praise for White Noise & Lightning: The Continental Drifters Story

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 drummer for The Black Crowes
Author of Hard to Handle: The Life and Death of the Black Crowes