This past Friday night, I attended a Kansas concert in Greeneville, Tennessee. In case you don't know who the band Kansas is, they are classic rock band whose biggest hit came in the 1970s and include "Dust in the Wind," "Carry on my Wayward Son," and "Point of No Return." I had been asked to attend this concert by my father, who is close friends with the band's bass player, Billy Greer, who is from the same small town in East Tennessee that I am from. I too am acquainted with Billy, and we have even played music together a time or two.
Anyway, I have been to several Kansas concerts over the years, I didn't realize that this was a benefit concert until my wife and I arrived at the show and read the program. The concert was in fact a benefit for well renound, Grammy Award-winning guitarist, Barry Burton, who died recently after a long bout with leukemia.
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