Steve
Walsh (born June 15, 1951) is an American musician, singer and
songwriter best known for his work as a member of the progressive rock
band Kansas. He sings lead on Kansas' four best-known hits: "Carry On
Wayward Son," "Dust in the Wind", "Point of Know Return", and "All I
Wanted", the last two of which he also co-wrote. During Walsh's time
with the band, Kansas recorded two enormously successful albums, 1976's
Leftoverture and 1977's Point of Know Return. With Kansas, Walsh has
released 12 studio albums, six live albums, and numerous singles. He has
released three solo albums thus far. Walsh left Kansas after 1980's
Audio-Visions due to creative differences with the band's primary song
writer Kerry Livgren. Earlier in 1980, he released his first solo album,
Schemer-Dreamer, which included band mates Kerry Livgren, Rich Williams
and Phil Ehart, as well as guitarist Steve Morse (who in 1985 would
join the revamped Kansas). It contains the popular song "Every Step of
the Way". In 1982 he formed a rock band called Streets, which released
the albums 1st in 1983 and Crimes in Mind in 1985 before disbanding...
Schemer-Dreamer
is the first solo album by Steve Walsh, the former and original
keyboardist/vocalist of the progressive rock band Kansas. It was
released in 1980. Although this is his solo album, it features other
members of Kansas including Kerry Livgren, Phil Ehart, and Rich
Williams. In their retrospective review, Allmusic sarcastically
suggested that the self-aggrandizing front cover of Schemer-Dreamer
"very well could be the greatest album cover in rock history." They
criticized the music itself as "a big, loud, dumb arena rock record, one
that sounds completely tied to its year, if not month, of release", but
also avouched that "it's kind of fun because of that".
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