Leftoverture is the fourth album by American rock band Kansas, released in 1976. Overview When Kansas's Masque album failed to produce a hit single, pressure from Kirshner Records intensified. The band knew that if their next LP did not sell, they would be dropped by the label. To make matters worse, Steve Walsh began to experience writer's block, and his contribution to the album would ultimately be limited to co-authoring four songs. It fell on Kerry Livgren to fill the void. The dark, sprawling suites from the previous two albums disappeared in favor of shorter, more accessible songs which energized the band. Despite their brevity, the new compositions still 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 Leftoverture that "It was in the middle of a swamp (chuckling). 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).") A Detailed Description Leftoverture begins with the hit single "Carry On Wayward Son," a song which has become a classic rock staple. Kerry Livgren wrote the song as a sequel to the final song on the previous album ("The Pinnacle" off Masque). Because of this song's popularity, Kansas is ofte