Kansas celebrate their 50th anniversary with release of ‘Another Fork In The Road – 50 Years Of Kansas’
9th December 2022KANSAS, America’s legendary progressive rock band, will celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2023. To commemorate this landmark occasion, current label InsideOutMusic is pleased to announce Another Fork In The Road – 50 Years Of Kansas for release on the 9th of December 2022 in Europe & 16th of December 2022 in North America. A career-spanning collection, it features carefully-selected tracks from across the bands’ sizable discography, as well as a new version of ‘Can I Tell You’. Originally recorded and released on their 1974 debut, the song is updated by the current line-up. It provides a full-circle perspective on the band’s long and continuing history that has seen them release 16 studio albums and sell in excess of 30 million albums worldwide.
“The song ‘Can I Tell You’ may not have been our biggest ‘hit,’ but it is one of the most important songs in the career of the band KANSAS.” says original member and guitarist Richard Williams. “‘Can I Tell You’ was the first song on the demo reel we sent to Don Kirshner. Hearing that demo is what led to KANSAS getting a record deal. It felt appropriate, after fifty years, to come full circle and record it with the current lineup.”
Phil Ehart comments: “We are really honored by the commitment that InsideOut Music has put into ‘Another Fork in the Road.’ This is far more than just another greatest-hits album. ‘Another Fork in the Road’ is an in-depth representation of the evolving and winding musical journey of the band KANSAS that’s been 50 years in the making.”
Another Fork In The Road – 50 Years Of Kansas arrives as a 3CD Digipak collection, including extensive liner notes by journalist Jeff Wagner, as well as pictures of rarely-seen memorabilia and archive material, all overseen by founding member Phil Ehart. Pre-order now here: https://kansas.lnk.to/AnotherForkInTheRoad-50YearsOfKansas
The full track listing is below. Please note, due to licensing restrictions, there are minor differences between the European & North American releases.
Disc 1:
- Can I Tell You (new 2022 version)
- The Absence of Presence (The Absence of Presence, 2020)
- Throwing Mountains (The Absence of Presence, 2020)
- Crowded Isolation (The Prelude Implicit, 2016)
- Summer (The Prelude Implicit, 2016)
- The Voyage of Eight Eighteen (The Prelude Implicit, 2016)
- Icarus II (Somewhere to Elsewhere, 2000)
- The Coming Dawn (Thanatopsis) (Somewhere to Elsewhere, 2000)
- Distant Vision (Somewhere to Elsewhere, 2000)
- The Wall (Always Never the Same, 1998)
- Dust in the Wind (Always Never the Same, 1998)
- Desperate Times (Freaks of Nature, 1995)
- Under The Knife (Freaks of Nature, 1995)
North America Version – Disc 2:
- Fight Fire With Fire (Drastic Measures, 1983)
- End of the Age (Drastic Measures, 1983)
- Incident on a Bridge (Drastic Measures, 1983)
- Play the Game Tonight (Vinyl Confessions, 1982)
- Crossfire (Vinyl Confessions, 1982)
- Windows (Vinyl Confessions, 1982)
- Hold On (Audio-Visions, 1980)
- Loner (Audio-Visions, 1980)
- Curtain of Iron (Audio-Visions, 1980)
- No One Together (Audio-Visions, 1980)
- On The Other Side (Monolith, 1979)
- Angels Have Fallen (Monolith, 1979)
- How My Soul Cries Out For You (Monolith, 1979)
EU Version Disc 2:
- House on Fire (In the Spirit of Things, 1988)
- Rainmaker (In the Spirit of Things, 1988)
- Silhouettes in Disguise (Power, 1986)
- Secret Service (Power, 1986)
- Three Pretenders (Power, 1986)
- End of the Age (Drastic Measures, 1983)
- Incident on a Bridge (Drastic Measures, 1983)
- Play the Game Tonight (Vinyl Confessions, 1982)
- Crossfire (Vinyl Confessions, 1982)
- Windows (Vinyl Confessions, 1982)
- Hold On (Audio-Visions, 1980)
- Loner (Audio-Visions, 1980)
- No One Together (Audio-Visions, 1980)
- On The Other Side (Monolith, 1979)
- How My Soul Cries Out For You (Monolith, 1979)
Disc 3:
- Carry On Wayward Son (Two for the Show, 1978)
- Portrait (He Knew) (Point of Know Return, 1977)
- Sparks of the Tempest (Point of Know Return, 1977)
- Miracles Out of Nowhere (Leftoverture, 1976)
- Magnum Opus (Leftoverture, 1976)
- Icarus – Borne On Wings of Steel (Masque, 1975)
- Child of Innocence (Mas que,1975)
- Down The Road (Song for America, 1975)
- Song For America (Song for America, 1975)
- The Devil Game (Song for America, 1975)
- Death of Mother Nature Suite (Kansas, 1974)
- Belexes (Kansas, 1974)
- Journey From Mariabronn (Kansas, 1974)
Kansas will celebrate their 50th anniversary with extensive touring in North America in 2023. The band is currently comprised of original drummer Phil Ehart, bassist/vocalist Billy Greer, vocalist/keyboardist Ronnie Platt, violinist/guitarist David Ragsdale, keyboardist/vocalist Tom Brislin, and original guitarist Richard Williams.
For a full list of upcoming dates, head to: https://www.kansasband.com/tour-dates/
With a legendary career spanning five decades, KANSAS has firmly established itself as one of America’s iconic classic rock bands. This “garage band” from Topeka released their debut album in 1974 after being discovered by Wally Gold, who worked for Don Kirshner, and has gone on to sell more than 30 million albums worldwide.
Composing a catalog that includes sixteen studio albums and five live albums, KANSAS has produced eight gold albums, three sextuple-Platinum albums (Leftoverture, Point of Know Return, Best of KANSAS), one platinum live album (Two for the Show), one quadruple-Platinum single ‘Carry On Wayward Son,’ and another triple-Platinum single ‘Dust in the Wind.’ KANSAS appeared on the Billboard charts for over 200 weeks throughout the ’70s and ’80s and played in sold-out arenas and stadiums throughout North America, Europe, and Japan. ‘Carry On Wayward Son’ continues to be one of the top five most played songs on classic rock radio, and ‘Dust In the Wind’ has been played on the radio more than three million times!
The summer of 2020 marked the release of The Absence of Presence, KANSAS’s sixteenth studio album, which debuted at #10 on Billboard’s Top Current Albums chart. The wide-ranging progressive rock album, released by InsideOut Music, follows-up 2016’s The Prelude Implicit, which debuted at #14 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart.
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