SONG FOR AMERICA

Song For America? More like Prog For America! The second Kansas album finds them doubling down on the prog side of their prog rock/heartland rock mashup, which when you think about it is a pretty sound call on their part: there simply weren't many American bands on the market who were trying to challenge the British kings of prog at their own game, whilst boogie rock outfits were a dime a dozen. Take Blue Oyster Cult circa Secret Treaties, dial back the proto-metal and add significantly more in the way of keyboards, and perhaps give them a snifter of early Utopia for extra complexity, and perhaps you end up somewhere in the vicinity of this. The closing Incomudro - Hymn to the Atman may well be their proggiest moment.