The song, “Dust in the Wind,” appeared on the 1977 album Point of Know Return and would go on to become the progressive rock band’s biggest hit. It was Kansas’s only U.S. Top 10 single, peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1978.
“Actually, I was trying to improve my skills as an acoustic guitarist, I've always been an electric player,” he revealed. “And I came up with this finger exercise, which was basically ‘Dust in the Wind.’
Livgren recalled that he had been reading a book of Native American poetry at the time as well as a Bible passage from the Book of Ecclesiastes about vanity, which “just seemed to go with that melodic line.”
"I said, 'What do you mean, you like that thing?'” Livgren recalled.
In a separate interview, Livgren told Guitar World’s Acoustic Nation that “Dust in the Wind” was written in record time—once he decided to make a song out of it.
“When I played it for the band, there was stunned silence,” he shared.
The band members couldn't believe what they heard
“We were working on the songs for Point Of Know Return and [Kerry] said, ‘Guys, I’ve brought a song and it’s kind of different. It doesn’t have any drums or bass,’” Erhart told Classic Rock magazine in 2018. "He had this little reel-to-reel that he’d recorded it on. We listened to it and all of us were just blown away. Kerry goes, ‘You mean you guys like it?’
The Kansas drummer also said, “I’d put ‘Dust In The Wind’ up there with any of the greatest ballads that have ever been written.”
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