Kansas- Wayward Songs & Dust Busters- Kerry Livgren, Steve Walsh, Phil Ehart, Rich Williams, Robbie Steinhardt
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”. 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. – Redbeard