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The band's style of songwriting mixed classical, hard rock, progressive rock, and pop in a way that had not been done before. - Jeb Wright, from the liner notes to TWO FOR THE SHOW: 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION."Carry On Wayward Son" by Kansas, their 1976 RIAA gold Top 10 singles chart debut, received the ultimate accolade in today's competitive PlayStation universe when it was inducted into the track list of 2006's enormously popular Guitar Hero II, which has sold more than 3 million copies to date.The song's magnetism has delivered a new generation of fans for Kansas - who have sold more than 20 million albums in the U.S. during their career, continue to tour around the world, and maintain a colorful and vastly informative Kansas website."Carry On Wayward Son" now takes its place as one of the band's signature tracks on TWO FOR THE SHOW: 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION, which restores the full-length original two-LP concert album of 1978 for the first time in the digital era.The new double-CD edition is expanded with a second disc including 10 previously unreleased live tracks from the same 1977-78 tour grid that provided the tracks for the original live album.Thirty years later, TWO FOR THE SHOW: 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION will arrive in stores July 1st on Kirshner/Epic/Legacy, a division of SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.The double-CD package will be housed in a beautifully designed, environmentally friendly, plastic-free soft pack, containing a 24-page full-color booklet with many unseen photographs, and a new liner notes essay written by Jeb Wright."Looking back," Wright reflects, "it is hard to believe that these six long-haired, rough and tumble Midwesterners took only a few years to go from playing local bars to selling out Madison Square Garden but that is exactly what happened."Wright, a native of Topeka, Kansas - the band's hometown - is the owner/editor of Classic Rock Revisited online music magazine, which can be found at Classic Rock Revisited.Wright also points out the story behind the album cover graphic - the familiar rendering of the two cleaning ladies seated in the empty red velvet orchestra seats after a show, their mops in view, perusing the Kansas playbill.
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The album, Wright concludes, "is a testament to a great band at the top of their game.
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"It kind of knocked me sideways on another level," said Wetton of his recent surgery and physical rehabilitation, in an interview with journalist Jeb Wright.