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The most recent collaborative project, "Baked (at 420 for 40 Years) Vol 1" (listen below) started as the stars aligned and the music flowed. The Frank Burns Band had a backlog of material they wanted to record in a more polished fashion to capture the spirit and energy of their live shows. Kev engineered, mixed and produced the sessions over the winter of 2026. The 12 song collection was recorded swiftly as the group has been playing the tunes together since the 1980s and they performed the full collection live on stage at a recent concert.  Scroll down to enjoy their melodic rhythm driven rock. The process was so enjoyable, a new project is underway.

"Long Days Passing Fast" leans in to a 70-80s singer songwriter pop rock collection that features piano rock oriented pieces. It would appeal to folks that like Billy Joel's or Elton John's releases. It hearkens as a nod of appreciation towards the singer songwriter genre of those decades in the musical forging of a writer's youth.

"Retrospectful" is an acoustic guitar driven collection aimed towards a more folk genre, with a twist. It is a very Sunday Morning acoustic style album. Most of the pieces are solo performer w/ a few band additions. The songs are ones you might associate w/ James Taylor or Cat Stevens, possibly even Jason Mraz in more contemporary frame. The songs are, accordingly, very singer songwriter style and shorter in length, with some featuring interwoven vocal harmonies.  

"Unfit for Consumption" is an album that's a bit like Rudolph the Reindeer's "Isle of Misfit Songs". They all lean a bit on the longer side, and wander in and out of prog-rock territory.  They are written in unusual styles and non-traditional structures, resembling more of a single suite of various musical passages than radio friendly pop songs. That's not to suggest that they are weird or strange. They are all quite melodic with strong harmonic pop sensibilities, but just not presented in normal song structuring associated with short format radio releases. 

"Ripples" is an unapologetic piano album. All the songs are fundamentally piano based singer songwriter material, if not maybe a little Broadway thrown in for good measure. The pieces are piano premised and hearken to 70s albums put out by Carole King et al ... with each song radio ready in classic pop framing. It veers towards simpler unadorned solo piano and vocal performances with more simplified arrangements.

"Life Outrageous" is kind of best described as "Unfit for Consumption (the "lite" version). The songs are slightly unusual in structure and formatting, but they're not as rambling or random as their prog-rock cousins. They have more rigidly defined song structures, but are still very straightforward non-traditional pieces that could have easily been played on any "Album Oriented Rock" radio station in the 70s or 80s - as not all the structuring appears in classical sequential song structure formatting. 

"Life in Session" is a collection of songs co-written between Kevin White and John McLaughlin, the original drummer of "The Melvin Zax Jazz Orchestra" that Kevin led during their college years. There is an interplay with lyrics provided by John - and often with the structure of a song's melody and arrangement. Working together brought this collection to fruition. The album is straightforward traditional rock and roll, but with a unique 80s feel to the works - in a modern production presentation.

Where most of the other albums were global efforts from a multitude of players around the earth, "Every Now and When" aimed at exactly the opposite. Everyone who contributed lived within a few miles of each other. It was recorded and produced during the Covid pandemic of 2020 and was a community effort. Although most of the songs were still written by Kevin White, only two of the 10 are sung by him. It is a straightforward power pop rock album that feels like modern contemporary blues based rock. 

"New & Improved!" is a snarky sarcastic title for a collection that is merely classic 80s radio rock pieces. These songs would have comfortably fit right into a radio friendly FM format. They are all very simply pop friendly mid-tempo rock pieces that could have been put out by the likes of "Fleetwood Mac" or "The Eagles" at one point in their careers. They are anything but different and are all quite accessible.