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NewEARS Album Of The Month
"Edensong's Our Road To Dust is one of the best progressive rock albums of the year. I absolutely agree with Ian Anderson on that claim. However, this not only a tribute to his famous flute playing with Jethro Tull. It is equally a tribute to Steve Walsh and the memory of his time with one of America's most successful bands of the 1970s; Kansas. It is as if, Kansas and Jethro Tull, took a walk through the desert and came up with this concept and these wonderful songs. Every note is a perfect reminder that there are...great American progressive rock bands. Yes, you will buy the album for the finale, Our Road To Dust, but this album will be remembered long after this year. We will all be wanting what is next from Edensong. But, enjoy all the time, effort and love that went into Our Road To Dust. And Edensong...don't go away for nine years again! After all, you promised, "I'll write a song for you. It's the least I can do. You never asked me to!" So, take Edensong's wonderful life journey and sit down somewhere that you can enjoy it in its entirety, without interruption." PM-PRC
Edensong - Our Road To Dust "EDENSONG has released a little progressive bomb with a strange sound, with the flute as a bonus, and choruses of buccaneering sailors. This [] band explodes in your face, offering a concentrated blend combining the power of hard rock with devastating melancholy." aPP-PA  Essential Track: "Yes, the title song is the reason you'll buy this album. "Our Road to Dust", is an over 7 minute adventure that will have you humming that melody, and singing the lyrics, as if you were in some desert western pub, with a large crowd! It has a rousing, sea shanty - like melody that is an earworm. It will definitely dig its way into your subconsciousness. One of the best songs of the year, already. This is absolutely star - quality songwriting. And the lyrics ain't so shabby either! James Byron Schoen sings the opening, "Our ambition doesn't go to die a silent death. Among the drying, growing, flame torn, landscape of the west. But rest while we rest by day. Among decay and rust. And by night it shepherds our way through that constant frigid desert wind, along our road to dust". "Westward Ho!" A refugee journey to a new land, that I think it is a throwback to the concept of "Manifest Destiny" of the early 19th Century of the American West. But it also can be interpreted as the journey many modern "refugees" take today. The music, the choruses, and everything they add to this wonderful panorama of imagery, adds to that great journey of America." PM-PRC Read the full reviews on Progressive Rock Central, and Prog Archives. Listen and watch the videos on the band's YouTube Channel. Buy the Album from Laser CD or wherever great Prog music is sold. NewEARS Art Rock Series
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NewEARS Featured Show:
June 12 - Beverly, MA
50 years later, THE MUSICAL BOX, internationally renowned for its historical accuracy, presents the original GENESIS LIVE performance in painstaking detail and offers an evening of time travel.
at The Cabot  A haunting album cover reveals the unique and dramatic world of GENESIS on stage, released as GENESIS LIVE (1973). The show would include songs from NURSERY CRYME, FOXTROT - Genesis' latest album - but also rarities the band would never perform again. The audience would witness for the first time PETER GABRIEL's antics and mysterious costumes adorning SUPPER'S READY, GENESIS' masterpiece. This show has acquired a cult-like following amongst GENESIS fans and is considered the quintessential early GENESIS performance. GENESIS LIVE was recorded at De Montfort Hall in Leicester England on February 25Th 1973. PETER GABRIEL: "TMB recreated, very accurately I must say, what Genesis was doing. I saw them in Bristol with my children so they could see what their father did back then". PHIL COLLINS: "They're not a tribute band, they have taken a period and are faithfully reproducing it in the same way that someone would do a theatrical production". Latest New England Prog News:
The YES Fragile Tour coming to Wallingford CT - October 1
 Coming to Veterans Memorial Auditorium October 22, Providence RI- "An Evening With" Playing Parasomnia in Full  Coming to New England in July 
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Season 11 of the NewEARS Prog Show is back on Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio.  Click here for Season 4-11 and the latest podcast from Delicious Agony - Progressive Rock Radio Click here for a complete list of artists that have appeared on the NewEARS Prog Show Season 1-3 NewEARS Prog Show Sponsors
        
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