Kansas : Leftoverture

Leftoverture

 is the fourth 

studio album by 

American rock band

 Kansas, 

released in 1976

Steve Walsh

 began to experience 

writer's block prior

 to the recording, 

and his contribution

 to the album

 would ultimately 

be limited to

 co-authoring three songs. 

It fell on Kerry Livgren

 to fill the void. 

The new compositions retained 

much of the classically

 inspired complexity 

of Livgren's previous work. 

Kansas recorded the album at

Studio in the Country in 

Bogalusa, Louisiana.

 The Studio in the Country

 was so named because, 

as Kerry Livgren described on

 In the Studio with Redbeard

 in the episode spotlighting 

Leftoverturethat

 "It was in the middle of a swamp.

 We'd walk out of the studio and

 there would be

 gators in front of the studio,

 mosquitos the size of B-52s 

and at times armadillos would

 run into the control room, laughing."

Leftoverture 

begins with the hit single

 "Carry On Wayward Son". 

Kerry Livgren wrote the song

 as a sequel to the final song,

 "The Pinnacle",

 from the previous album,

 Masque (1975).

The album's title, 

Leftoverture, 

is a portmanteau word.

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