Kansas @50: Wayward Songs & Dust Busters- Kerry Livgren, Steve Walsh, Phil Ehart, Rich Williams, Robbie Steinhardt

Over a half century of being America’s leading Progressive Rock band, the Topeka-based progressive rock band Kansas sold about twelve million albums just off of back-to-back blockbusters  Left Overture  in 1976 and Point of Know Return  barely eighteen months later. But there is a lot of quality before “Carry On Wayward Son” and after “Dust in the Wind”, including the epic title song from their second album, “Song for America”; the soaring “Icarus: Borne on Wings of Steel” from Masque  in 1975; and then post-Point…  hits “People of the South Wind”, “Hold On”, “Fight Fire with Fire”, and “All I Wanted”.

With five decades of musical statehood, Kansas original members Kerry Livgren, Steve Walsh, Phil Ehart, Richard Williams, and the late singer/violinist Robbie Steinhardt (d. 2021) all join me In the Studio  for the rest of the best on Kansas’ fiftieth anniversary. – Redbeard