{"id":8353,"date":"2017-02-04T00:21:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T00:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hippy.com\/hip\/?p=8353"},"modified":"2017-02-04T00:21:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T00:21:15","slug":"wizards-of-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/reviews\/wizards-of-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards Of Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Truly The Wizards From Kansas are America\u2019s finest horseman to gallop the spirited clouds of the Cherokee.The Wizards started their journey as Pig Newton launching their 1968 debut album Still In Kansas that pushed out a wah wah sapped version of Dylan\u2019s \u201cAll Along The Watchtower\u201d and the speckled \u201cExchange Of Clouds\u201d. Wizards From Kansas blew Bill Graham\u2019s mind during their enduring gifted sets at the Fillmore East in the summer of 1970. These convincing live performances gave the group a recording break which put out their self titled masterpiece.<\/p>\n

The lineup now slightly changed has John Paul Coffin playing some of the most exact lead breaks ever to slit the Stars & Stripes particularly on the galloping \u201cRide With The Witches\u201d where the vox command of Robert Joseph Menadier and his fortified bass takes full charge and authority.The obvious strength of the group was ex Little Boy Blues drummer Marc Evan Caplan who rolls with an incredibly deliberate shuttle, often in jazz restrain. The songsmith behind the Wizards was twelve- string guitarist Robert Manson Crain who wrote six tracks while guitarist Harold Earl Pierce often helped out on vox when Caplan took percussion.<\/p>\n

The Wizards were in the same esoteric drift as Clear Light or Emitt Rhodes without Coffin\u2019s fiery breaks.The acoustic tranquility is crystalline as it flows through \u201cMisty Mountainside\u201d and even more meditated upon is the spaced version of Bill Wheeler\u2019s \u201cHigh Flying Bird\u201d far more voluptuous than We Five or Judy Henske. A stimulating edge spits through Buffy Sainte-Marie\u2019s \u201cCodine\u201d influenced by the Quicksilver jam session with Blood Sweat & Butterfield Mark Naftalin on keyboards.<\/p>\n

Added:<\/b> June 29th 2007
\nReviewer:<\/b> shiloh Noone<\/a> | See all reviews<\/a> by shiloh Noone
\nCategory:<\/b> Music<\/a>
\nLocation:<\/b> Kansas<\/a>
\nScore:<\/b> \"\"\"\"
\nRelated Link:<\/b> Seekers Guide To The Rhythm Of Yesteryear<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Truly The Wizards From Kansas are America\u2019s finest horseman to gallop the spirited clouds of the Cherokee.The Wizards started their journey as Pig Newton launching their 1968 debut album Still In Kansas that pushed out a wah wah sapped version of Dylan\u2019s \u201cAll Along The Watchtower\u201d and the speckled \u201cExchange Of Clouds\u201d. Wizards From Kansas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}