Monday, May 6, 2024: 11pm ET: Feature LP: Kansas – Monolith (1979)

Monolith is the sixth studio album by American progressive rock band Kansas, released May 1979. The album was remastered and reissued in 2011, as a Japanese import vinyl-replica Blu-spec CD (Epic EICP 20078) including the rarity live version of “On the Other Side” previously available only on the 1994 Legacy-issued Box Set. A domestic version of the remaster was released in standard CD format in the US as part of Legacy Recordings’ Classic Album Collection series which included all of their Kirshner/CBS studio releases. A Dutch-issued “Music on CD” series released the album on CD in 2016. It was last of the albums with the original lineup to be re-released on vinyl. Three different colored vinyl versions appeared in 2018 and 2019.

  1. “On the Other Side” 6:26
  2. “People of the South Wind” 3:41
  3. “Angels Have Fallen” 6:39
  4. “How My Soul Cries Out for You” 5:49
  5. “A Glimpse of Home” 6:37
  6. “Away from You” 4:26
  7. “Stay Out of Trouble” 4:15
  8. “Reason to Be” 3:51

Steve Walsh – keyboards, lead and backing vocals
Kerry Livgren – guitars, keyboards
Rich Williams – guitars
Robby Steinhardt – violin, backing vocals, lead vocals on “Angels Have Fallen,” “How My Soul Cries Out for You,” and “Stay Out of Trouble,” anvil
Dave Hope – bass
Phil Ehart – drums
The O. K. Chorale – background vocals on “Angels Have Fallen”

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