Kerry Livgren-Seeds Of Change (1980)

Kerry Livgren has gone down in rock history for being the composer of one of the most acclaimed songs of all time such as "Dust in the Wind", written and composed when he belonged to his mother band Kansas.
In his time as lead guitarist for the Topeka band, his skills as an instrumentalist and composer made him a great reputation and in 1980 he would publish his first solo album outside his band entitled "Seeds Of Change".
An album that almost totally removed from the Kansas style, Livgren gave free rein to ideas without a very defined stylistic cohesion.
Livgren had converted to Christianity for some time, so some of the songs on the album make some kind of reference to that peculiar situation, such as "To Live For The King" and "The Mask Of The Great Deceiver" both with Ronnie James Dio on vocals.
This fact was still curious, since at that time Dio had just become the singer of Black Sabbath, a band that was always "unofficially" stuck with the diabolical.
In any case the album contained other great moments such as the commercial "How Can You Live" sung by his partner from Kansas; Steve Walsh, the spiritual blues "Whiskey Seed", or the progressive "Ground Zero", perhaps the only song where he timidly approached the characteristic sound of Kansas.