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Title: first listen...wasn't crazy about it
Review: Kerry Livgren is a great musician and composer, no doubt about it, and I have been a huge fan of Kerry and Kansas for almost 40 years. I understand this was a project that he could call his own, as he played all of the music on every instrument. There-in lies the problem...he is not as skilled as these other instruments as other folks for whom these instruments are their primary focus. This includes of course, the members of the original Kansas. What I heard where rudimentary drums and bass, and most of everything else that that is not guitar or keyboard. Kerry is a great guitarist (imo), and the guitar work is far above the rest of the instruments. Unfortunately, what it sounds like to me, is that he had to limit his compositions to music that he could actually play. None of these compositions compare to the songs he used to write for Kansas. I will keep listening...and will have it on my shuffle, and hopefully some of the tracks will grow on me.
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