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Year : 1976 (Japan Blu-Spec CD Edition 2011)
Style : Melodic Rock , AOR
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 135 mb
Bio:
Kansas is an American rock band that became popular in the 1970s initially on album-oriented rock charts and later with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind".The band has produced eight gold albums, three multi-platinum albums (Leftoverture, Point of Know Return, The Best of Kansas), one platinum live album (Two for the Show) and a million-selling single, "Dust in the Wind". Kansas appeared on the Billboard charts for over 200 weeks throughout the 1970s and 1980s and played to sold-out arenas and stadiums throughout North America, Europe and Japan. "Carry On Wayward Son" was the second-most-played track on US classic rock radio in 1995 and No. 1 in 1997.In 1969, Lynn Meredith, Don Montre, Dan Wright and Kerry Livgren (guitars, keyboards, synthesizers) were performing in a band called The Reasons Why in their hometown of Topeka, Kansas. After changing the band's name to Saratoga, they started playing Livgren's original material with Scott Kessler playing bass and Zeke Lowe on drums.In 1970, they changed the band's name to Kansas and merged with members of rival Topeka progressive rock group White Clover. White Clover members Dave Hope (bass) and Phil Ehart (drums, percussion) joined with Livgren, vocalists Meredith and Joel Warne, keyboardists Montre and Wright and saxophonist Larry Baker.This early Kansas group, which lasted until 1971 when Ehart, Hope and some of the others left to reform White Clover, is sometimes referred to as Kansas I.Ehart was replaced by Zeke Lowe and later Brad Schulz, Hope was replaced by Rod Mikinski on bass, and Baker was replaced by John Bolton on saxophone and flute. (This lineup is sometimes referred to as Kansas II, and 30 years later would re-form under the name Proto-Kaw.) In 1972, after Ehart returned from England (where he had gone to look for other musicians), he and Hope once again reformed White Clover with Robby Steinhardt (vocals, violin, viola, cello), Steve Walsh (vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, percussion) and Rich Williams (guitars). In 1973 they recruited Livgren from the second Kansas group, which then folded.[6] Eventually they received a recording contract with Don Kirshner's eponymous label and decided to adopt the Kansas name.
Album:
Japanese reissue cardboard sleeve series pressed on high quality Blu-spec CD format, fully remastered and including bonus tracks.Early KANSAS albums needed a proper remastering to update / clean the sound but also preserve the original harmonics and analog tapes warm nature. These Blu-spec CD are amazing, believe me.KANSAS fourth effort “Leftoverture” was their breakthrough album and a thorough representation of its assorted musical sensibilities combining hard-driving group instrumentation (with a dearth of flashy solos) with short, tight melody lines and melodic singing.And it has the timeless classic ‘Carry On Wayward Son’, but there’s much more inside.The a capella vocal opening of ‘Carry On Wayward Son’ was a moment that signified the floodgates of success were about to open wide for Kansas.It was one song among a stack of many others on the ”Leftoverture” album — including “Magnum Opus,” “The Wall,” “What’s On My Mind” and “Opus Insert” — that would become classic and well-known favorites.Kansas were so prolific they put out ‘Song for America’ in February 1975 and had their third album, ‘Masque’, on the shelves by September that same year.When it came time to record their fourth album, which would become ”Leftoverture”, Kansas had a problem — they didn’t have the material ready to go. The epic ‘Magnum Opus’ was originally titled “Leftoverture,” because it was made up of bits and pieces of music that the group had developed during soundchecks, as well as some parts leftover from the Masque album.As album producer Jeff Glixman remembered, all the pieces fell together song-wise and they suddenly had their album title too: “We fell in love with the name and made it the name of the album instead and we changed the name of the song to ‘Magnum Opus.'”Surprisingly, ‘Carry On Wayward Son’ was the last song to arrive for ”Leftoverture”. Kerry Livgren was on an incredible writing roll, and presented the song at the final rehearsals. So ‘Carry On…’ was essentially finished / arranged into the studio.All of the work the group had done in the preceding years finally paid off in a big way with ”Leftoverture”. “We were really starting to get a lot of the recognition as an opening band, because we were out there with Queen, we were out there with Bad Company, we were out there with so many different bands,” drummed Phil Ehart said.“We were starting to get the recognition as a musician’s band — not so much on the radio, but just as a band of musicians playing a certain level of music. The whole foundation was there from all of that work. So when Leftoverture hit, it was a much bigger fire than it probably would have been without all of that work we did before.”These Japanese reissue series on Blu-spec CD get out the best of this awesome original recording and the pristine remastering preserving the original sound.
Line Up:
Steve Walsh – vocals, organ, piano, clavinet, Moog
Kerry Livgren – guitars, piano, clavinet, Moog and ARP synths
Robby Steinhardt – violin, lead and backing vocals
Rich Williams – guitars
Dave Hope – bass
Phil Ehart – drums, percussion
Tracklist:
01. Carry On Wayward Son
02. The Wall
03. What’s On My Mind
04. Miracles Out Of Nowhere
05. Opus Insert
06. Questions Of My Childhood
07. Cheyenne Anthem
08. Magnus Opus
09. Carry On Wayward Son (Live) (Japan Bonus Track)
10. Cheyenne Anthem (Live) (Japan Bonus Track)
11. Carry On Wayward Son (Single Version) (Japan Bonus Track)
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