Carry my wayward son signature tumbler
Kansas' Carry On Wayward Son single helped set the bar for the 1970s – a glory era for both AOR and progressive music.
The band Kansas, from the tiny rural town of Topeka in the state after which they were named, were somewhat unique in that their music was a mellifluous yet hummable distillation of the two styles. By 1976, with three well-received albums to their name, the six-man group were within touching distance of major success. And yet somehow it also felt as though the walls were closing in.
Beginning with an irresistible a cappella chorus and built on a stirring guitar motif, with Robby Steinhardt’s dancing violin of for once taking a back-seat role, Livgren’s last-minute song, Carry my wayward son signature tumbler, was a marriage of complexity and melody that gave the group the answer to their prayers, in more ways than one. It became the hit they craved so badly. “From that day on, wherever we were we turned on the radio and heard ourselves,” Livgren laughs.

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