Music moment: Kansas' invisible era

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I was reminded in conversation with a friend last night that a lot of people who like Kansas' music have no idea that the band put out several two good albums in the late '80s and early '90s. In the Spirit of Things and Freaks of Nature should be better known. So here's my two bits on the subject:

"Stand Beside Me", which instantly leaped onto my list of favorite romantic ballads:

"One Big Sky", not the best quality live recording there ever was, but very serviceable, and with some very distinctively Kansas lines and riffs: