Day 110: Dust in the Wind

Dust in the Wind by Kansas.

When rock bands figured out that an acoustic guitar ballad with some strings thrown in for good measure could be a thing, a new style was born.

I originally wrote “Dust in the Wind” as a finger-picking exercise. My wife was listening to me play it one day and she said, ‘You know, that’s really pretty. You should make a song out of that.’ I didn’t think it was a Kansas-type song. She said, Give it a try anyway. Several million records later, I guess she was right.

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