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Carry On Wayward Son
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Browse piano sheets by Kansas on Zen Virtual Piano. According to its own history page, Kansas has composed a catalogue of fifteen studio albums and five live albums, producing eight gold albums, three sextuple-Platinum albums (Leftoverture, Point of Know Return and Best of KANSAS), one platinum live album, Two for the Show, and two one-million-selling gold singles, “Carry On Wayward Son” and “Dust in the Wind.” American Songwriter tells the story behind the first of those singles. Just two days before the band was set to record Leftoverture, Kerry Livgren had one last song to present, “Carry on Wayward Son.” Once released, the article says, it became the band’s first major hit and skyrocketed them into stardom. Livgren describes the song as autobiographical. “Parallel to my musical career I’ve always been on a spiritual sojourn, looking for truth and meaning,” he said. “It was a song of self-encouragement. I was telling myself to keep on looking and I would find what I sought.”
Browse piano sheets by Kansas on Zen Virtual Piano.
According to its own history page, Kansas has composed a catalogue of fifteen studio albums and five live albums, producing eight gold albums, three sextuple-Platinum albums (Leftoverture, Point of Know Return and Best of KANSAS), one platinum live album, Two for the Show, and two one-million-selling gold singles, “Carry On Wayward Son” and “Dust in the Wind.”
American Songwriter tells the story behind the first of those singles. Just two days before the band was set to record Leftoverture, Kerry Livgren had one last song to present, “Carry on Wayward Son.” Once released, the article says, it became the band’s first major hit and skyrocketed them into stardom.
Livgren describes the song as autobiographical. “Parallel to my musical career I’ve always been on a spiritual sojourn, looking for truth and meaning,” he said. “It was a song of self-encouragement. I was telling myself to keep on looking and I would find what I sought.”
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Its history page names Leftoverture, Point of Know Return and Best of KANSAS as sextuple-Platinum albums, Two for the Show as a platinum live album, and “Carry On Wayward Son” and “Dust in the Wind” as one-million-selling gold singles.
American Songwriter says he presented it two days before the band was set to record Leftoverture.
He called it autobiographical, a song of self-encouragement written during a spiritual search for truth and meaning.