When Kansas needed a new
keyboard player, Thomas Waber
(head of the Inside Out Records
label) recommended Brislin. Waber
had seen him perform with
The Sea Within at the Night of the
Prog Festival in Germany. Members
of Kansas were also familiar
with Brislin’s work in acts like Yes
and Camel, which also helped
pave the way.
“When I had my first call with Phil
Ehart (the drummer for Kansas)
and he asked me to join the band,
one of my first questions was ‘Am
I invited to the writing party?’” recalled
Brislin. “And he said, ‘Yeah,
show us what you’ve got.’ They
had put out a new album just a
few years earlier, so I knew they
were back in the swing of writing
and recording new material. I was
very excited about that.”
As it turned out, Brislin was not
only part of the writing party but
wound up with writing credits on
seven of the album’s nine songs,
including the title track. He also
sings lead on the album’s closer,
“The Song The River Sang.”
Listen to “The Song The River Sang” by Kansas
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