about his music and asked to
hear Undertow. People loved it,
so Kanach decided to see what
his friend Don Dazzo (lead sing-
er of The Whirling Dervishes)
would think of it. Dazzo was im-
pressed by the record and told
him to take it to Billy Siegel (key-
boardist for the Whirling Der-
vishes and a record producer).
Siegel’s schedule was booked
for the next six months, but he
told Kanach to drop off a copy
of the record and he would
check it out.
“The next day Billy called me
and said, ‘I listened to that on
the ride home. I’m going to
change some things around.
Let’s start next week!’ It then
took us three years to record it.”
One of the most important de-
cisions made was to record the
album in sequence. The end
result is that the record actually
gets better as it goes along be-
Billy Siegel, Russ McAdoo, Joe Rowley and Tom Kanach. Photo by Swikar Patel
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