Kansas - Audio-visions CDs • Vinyl Records • LPs • Music Albums

Once upon a time. Kansas were a viable American alternative to the near-terminal pretensions and upper-crust elitism of English art-rock. Like a cornfed Genesis, they balanced the cosmic incredulity of their lyrics with a sound as big as the wide open spaces of their native state: cathedrallike keyboards and high-blown vocal arrangements anchored by the garage-band raunch of guitarists Kerry Liver and Rich Williams, plus Robby Stein's barnyard-dance-cum-classical-violin scrapings.

Kansas ambitions have long since turned portentous, however From the apocalyptic bombast and pseudo-Homeric poetry of "Curtain of Iron" and "Back Door" to the half-realized rock & roll of "Relentless" and "Got
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