A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT
“We showed up yesterday and we haven’t played any of these songs all together in the same room at the same time,” Tommy Shaw tells us. “So yesterday we worked up one in the dressing room. Everybody knew their parts and was ready to play it, and it sounds great. Weird, but it’s so nice to be able to play these songs and listen to each other for the first time in the last two years [the first time they’d played them together since latest album Crash Of The Crown was made].”
Understandably, the Styx guitarist and singer is sounding ebullient. As the world gets to grips with the ongoing effects of the covid pandemic, the American rock veterans are back to doing what they do best: making great music and playing it live. “We are ready to hit the ground running,” says an equally upbeat and enthusiastic Lawrence Gowan (keyboards/vocals).
Shaw and Gowan are talking to from a warm and muggy Florida where the band kicked off their US tour at the St. Augustine Amphitheater on June
