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    HM Magazine #75/Kerry Livgren
    Kerry Livgren — Prime Mover II cover

    Kerry Livgren

    Prime Mover II

    (1998)

    Reviewed by Doug Van Pelt

    DiscogsApple Music
    Label NumavoxHM Magazine #75January 1999
    classic rockprogressive rock

    Here's some very tasty progressive rock. Kerry originally released this album ten years ago and many of the songs were old Kansas and AD songs that he had hanging around that never saw the recording light of day. They were brilliant then, but Kerry felt these songs needed a better treatment, thus Prime Mover II. Fans of Kerry's will be delighted to find that he's added five songs in the process. The new treatment of the old songs is sonically sound and has a bit more of a full sound (aka beef), but it seemed to have lost some of its high-end crispness. One of the five "new" songs is a new rendition of "Fair Exchange" (from the Vinyl Confessions album). If you're like me, a new album from Kerry is almost a non-option (ie. you have to get it); and, as usual, it does not disappoint.

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