Sometime in the middle eighties, I drove 4 hours to Louisville on the recommendation of a good friend who’s a drop-dead good fiddle and mandolin player, just to catch Steve Lyon live at some church venue.
I was just amazed at his piano work and his lyrics, but when I spoke to him to get him to sign the album jacket later I realized he was one of those geniuses who lives right on the line between being functional in the real world and being too crazy to live there. So it didn’t surprise me that I never heard any more about him.
Thirty some years later, this album is so fucking good that there are several tracks I STILL can’t listen to without weeping.
I’m starting with one of the science fiction tracks here, but you can click thru to YT and see the track list and listen to any or all of it.