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June 27, 1998

KANSAS

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January 6, 1998

Kansas To Release Symphonic Album

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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...

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These corn-fed prog-rock philosophers hit it right exactly once: the 1977 acoustic doomshow "Dust in the Wind," which seems guaranteed to stick around long after the earth and sky are both gone. It's the first riff any guitarist learns to play (very similar to Janis Ian's "At Seventeen," in fact), as well as a sermon on the transience of material things, complete with air-violin solo, dry-ice vide...

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