CRAFTY HANDS

It is hard to write 100 words about an album that is almost completly instrumental but here it goes.I normally dont like albums without vocals(wind up doll day wind is the exception) because in so many cases it becomes like a sporting event with musicians seeing who can outdo the other until it becomes a wankfest.This album is an exception in the first degree.Happy The Man has it all.Nice spacy parts,out standing symphonic lushness and fancy jazz like interplay.I always have considered Kansas to be the best American prog band because of the balance of musicianship and great songwriting but Happy The Man is better from a musicianship point of view.Thats for sure.I really never heard much about them until I got a Cuniform sampler hrom Progression Magizine from the now out of business Borders Books in 2001.I guess it is hard for instrumental bands to get airplay unlike Kansas who had vocals.