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Kansas - There's Know Place Like Home [2CD Special edition] (2009)
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Kansas - There's Know Place Like Home {2CD} (2009)
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| “ | Wikipedia: Kansas is an American progressive rock band which became a popular arena rock group in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind". Kansas has remained a classic rock radio staple and a popular touring act in North America and Europe. The debut album, Kansas, which was released in 1974, showcased Kansas' signature mix of guitars, keyboards, vocals, and Steinhardt's violin style, which merged American-style boogie-rock with complex, symphonic arrangements and changing time signatures. Their sound bore the marks of late-1960s, early 1970s progressive rock, such as Genesis and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. Promotion by Kirshner and touring behind the debut album and its two follow ups, Song for America and Masque, increased awareness of Kansas. On the strength of the major hit single "Carry On Wayward Son" the band's fourth album, Leftoverture, released in 1976, on which Steinhardt added viola and Walsh added vibraphone to their work, was a hit which garnered a lot of airplay on the burgeoning AOR radio format. The follow up Point of Know Return, released in 1977, featured the title track and "Dust in the Wind", both hit singles. Both albums had unique album covers, with Leftoverture featuring a DaVinci-like old man on the cover, and Point of Know Return depicting a ship teetering over the edge of the world. Both albums have sold over 4 million copies in the USA alone. Both Carry On Wayward Son and Dust in the Wind were certified Gold singles, selling over one million units each. During this period, Kansas became an important arena rock act, becoming a major headlining act for several years, and selling out the largest venues available to rock bands at the time (e.g. New York City's Madison Square Garden). The band documented this era with its first live recording, 1978's double live album Two For The Show, a snapshot of various performances from the 1977 and 1978 tours supporting Point Of Know Return. Kansas self-produced their follow-up to Point Of Know Return. The 1979 album Monolith featured lyrics influenced by The Urantia Book and Native American themes. "Kansas" itself is a toponym derived from the Kansa tribe, whose name is widely believed to mean "People of the South Wind." The starkly expressive album cover depicts Plains Indians in traditional dress and space suit helmets living in a settlement under the ruins of highway overpasses. While the album produced a top 40 single in "People of the South Wind", both the band and the label were disappointed in Monolith's failure to produce sales or radio airplay close to its two predecessors. Nevertheless, the album went Platinum and the Platinum record hangs in the Kansas State Historical Society. With classic rock continuing to be a strong genre of music, Kansas's influence has continued to inspire bands. "Carry On Wayward Son" has been covered by bands such as Rachel Rachel, Critical Mass, Dream Theater, The Showdown, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, and even country superstars The Oak Ridge Boys. The song has appeared on album soundtracks for the movies Heroes and Anchorman, and being played during a scene in the Adam Sandler film Happy Gilmore. (where it is featured as the ending credits song). "Carry On Wayward Son" is also featured in Guitar Hero II and Rock Band 2. Most recently the song was featured in an episode of the popular animated TV series South Park. It has also been played on the hit tv series Supernatural (TV series). Kansas is mentioned as one of Dean Winchester's favorites; as well as a "major influence" in the liner notes of an early album of the top-selling Country artist of all time, Garth Brooks. | ” |
Don't want to prescribe all history of Kansas several pages long. Those interested should take a look @ Wiki, @ home, @ allmusic or @ fansite. Interesting reading it is.
Tracklisting:
CD 1
1. Howling At The Moon
2. Belexes
3. Point Of Know Return
4. Song For America
5. On The Other Side
6. Musicatto
7. Ghosts/Rainmaker
8. Nobody's Home
9. Hold On
10. Cheyenne Anthem
CD 2
1. Icarus II
2. Icarus: Borne On Wings of Steel
3. Miracles Out Of Nowhere
4. The Wall
5. Fight Fire With Fire
6. Dust In The Wind
7. Carry On Wayward Son
8. Down The Road (Afternoon Jam)
Additional infos and reviews for this album are located @ Wiki, @ allmusic, @ classicrockrevisited.com, @ blogcritics, @ progarchives, @ vintage rock and @ Dutch Progressive Rock Page
| “ | progarchives: I’m always interested in trivia and symbolism, so here’s a little of both for this album. First, the orchestra that accompanies Kansas on this album is none other than the Washburn University Symphony. Washburn was founded as Lincoln College at the end of the American Civil War; the land the school occupies was donated by John Ritchie, an abolitionist who, along with the more well-known John Brown, helped African-American slaves escape from the Deep South during that Civil War. He later donated land for the Monroe School in Topeka, the segregated secondary school that became the battleground for the now-famous ‘Brown v. Board of Education’, a Supreme Court case that provided for free and equal public education in the United States right about the same time Kerry Livgren began his elementary education in Topeka, Kansas. John Brown of course is the subject of the painting known as "Tragic Prelude", the seminal figure who graces the cover of Kansas’ debut album, and the same painting that hangs in the rotunda of the Kansas state capital building. So enough of trivia. As for this 2-disc live CD, it’s an interesting collection that covers quite the breadth of the band’s career. Several tracks are no-brainers, including the instantly-recognizable hits “Point of Know Return”, “Song for America”, “Dust in the Wind” and “Carry on Wayward Son”. Others are more surprising inclusions, especially the instrumental “Musicatto” from the band’s otherwise forgettable 1986 release ‘Power’; and the cheesy 1983 AOR single “Fight Fire with Fire”. Other than that song though every tune on the album fits quite well here, and kudos to the band for reaching back in their catalog for a few songs that don’t get played much in concert or appear often on their many other compilations and live recordings. Of particular note are “On the Other Side”, the opening number from the band’s 1979 album ‘Monolith’ which if I’m not mistaken finally went platinum (1,000,000 sales) nearly fifteen years after its release. Fortunately this one comes early in the concert before Steve Walsh’s voice inevitably starts to give way, and as a result this is one of the highlights of the album. It is followed by another unusual but welcome choice, a montage of “Ghosts” and “Rainmaker” from 1988’s ‘In the Spirit of Things’, the last album of the band’s to reach the Billboard Top-200 charts. Walsh has said many times this is his favorite Kansas album, and you have to wonder today if it would have made more of an impression had RCA not buried it behind the bubble-gum and bouncy hips of teen idol Tiffany with her retro covers including "I Think We're Alone Now" (Tommy James & the Shondells) and “I Saw Her Standing There” (the Beatles). One of my favorite Kansas songs “Cheyenne Anthem” gets a very decent treatment with bassist Billy Greer and I believe violinist David Ragsdale as well helping out with vocals. The band plays out the entire original closing crescendos which I’ve always liked, so that’s a nice touch. Walsh’s voice starts getting rough around this point in the concert though, so much of the rest of the album suffers a bit from his strained singing. This is particularly noticeable on “Miracles Out of Nowhere” which was a trademark Walsh screamer back in the days when he could nail the high ones. Here he lays off almost all of those, which makes for better singing but causes the song to lose a bit of the power it carried back in the day. Time passes I suppose. The rest of the album is a bit more predictable and more instrument-centric, which is likely because Phil Ehart, who I’m sure sequenced the album, knew Walsh would be wearing down after the strenuous first half. “Icarus II” followed by the original Icarus span a quarter- century of the band’s discography but fit well together both thematically and musically. “The Wall” is a crowd-pleaser that doesn’t push Walsh too far and highlights the band’s outstanding ability to meld rock, melody and progressive music into a tight package. This is followed by the obligatory and totally predictable encores “Dust in the Wind” and “Carry on Wayward Son”, and although that would be it for them at most concerts, they return for one more number, a jam session centered on the opening track from 1975’s ‘Song for America’ – “Down the Road”, one of the better co-written Walsh/Livgren tunes from the group’s early years. Speaking of Livgren, he makes the short drive from his Berryton farm just outside Topeka to join the band on-stage, along with former guitarist Steve Morse from the band’s 80s albums. Both are stellar and add depth to an already impressive sound. I can’t say there’s anything new or even particularly noteworthy here, but all in all this is a very solid offering from the band in celebration of their 35th anniversary. Hardcore fans will likely nitpick about the song selection, but for a band with a catalog as vast as Kansas it would be very hard to come up with just two hours of music that wouldn’t leave someone disappointed, so I won’t bother getting into that discussion. by ClemofNazareth Score: 4 out of 5 | ” |
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Other Kansas and related releases:
Kansas - Leftoverture (1976)
Kansas - Device-Voice-Drum {DVD-Video} (2002)
Kansas - There's Know Place Like Home DVD (2009) by rd
Proto~Kaw - The Wait Of Glory {Special Edition CD+DVD} (2006)
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