Unlike the intermittent timelines many of their contemporaries measure in jubilees, the circle of KANSAS’ existence remains unbroken for five decades now – a little hiccup in the mid-’80s can be discounted – and guitarist Richard Williams has been one of its guardians for all these years, his riffs and licks an integral part of the American ensemble’s unique sound.
Commemorating the band’s beginnings, he and his colleagues issued a triple-disc titled “Another Fork in the Road” in 2022 and went on tour in the summer of 2023, and it seemed like a perfect moment to catch up with the veteran musician to take a look at the collective’s agenda that has kept them strong for so long – at their inner workings and the ties that bind them.
