Interview with Billy Sherwood of Yoso from 2010

Interview with Billy Sherwood from 2011

Interview with Billy Sherwood from 2013

Interview with Billy Sherwood from 2015

Interview with Billy Sherwood from 2017

Interview with Billy Sherwood from 2019

First, I want to talk about the packaging here.

The whole “do an album of covers” concept is a popular approach these days.

The easy explanation of Circa: would be to call them a Yes spin-off band since both Billy Sherwood and Tony Kaye have been in that band.

A contender for best of the year, this is arguably Sherwood’s best solo album ever.

Yes seldom do anything in a small way when it can be done in an epic manner. 

This new compilation album seems a great way to sample Billy Sherwood’s solo output.

I’m a huge fan of all things Yes and Yes related, so I anticipated liking this, and I was right.

I’m a huge fan of all things Yes and Yes related, so I anticipated liking this, and I was right.

I like pretty much everything Billy Sherwood does.

Yoso is an interesting group. It is two former members of Yes (Tony Kaye and Billy Sherwood) and Bobby Kimball of Toto.

This is quite a cool set. The main man behind this is Billy Sherwood, and I always like the stuff he does.

Cleopatra Records loves doing these tribute albums, typically with Billy Sherwood in charge.

This is an intriguing disc. It’s a space oriented (but really it goes a lot more cosmic than just space) concept album.

Here’s the second disc in the Headsets series.

This is a review of the Japanese import version of Heaven & Earth which features a lot of musicians that Stuart Smith assembled for this great band.

With both Tony Kaye and Billy Sherwood onboard, comparisons to Yes are obvious. T

This box set is a class act. The whole thing comes in something that resembles a book. 

I would say that this set is pretty effective.

I’ve always been a big fan of the Doors.

I drove to The Symphony Hall and bought a ticket for the night's Yes show at the last minute (literally!). It was a long shot, but it really paid off, as I got a good seat in the stalls.

There seem to be some Yes fans deriding the recent incarnations of Yes.

This live album literally features just Billy Sherwood and Tony Kaye. Kaye handles the keyboards.

 I knew it would be hard to see Yes without Chris Squire! As "Onward" played, with a white Rickenbacker on stage with a spotlight, I felt myself tearing up.

Everything about this operation screams "classy." What I'm reviewing here is a double CD set.

I always liked Missing Persons.

Arguably Billy Sherwood’s biggest claim to fame is his stint in Yes.

This is a reissue of the Yes album Open Your Eyes on 180 gram vinyl.

I've been looking to do a retro review of this box set for a while. I finally had the opportunity this time around.

The new disc from Kurt Michaels combines progressive rock with pop rock ala The Beatles.

I am a big fan of pretty much anything Billy Sherwood is involved with and I love Supertramp, so when I heard Sherwood was in charge of assembling an all star tribute to Supertramp, I was excited.

You really can’t go wrong with Billy Sherwood.

Here is another compilation of Yes music. It is the first two CDs from The Ultimate Yes, repackaged.

This newest set from Leon Alvarado is quite a tasty one. It has a number of nearly vocal only spoken bits that tell the story of the album.

For hardcore Yes fans, this is a real treasure.

Stuart Smith put together this band some time ago and made an album, then later put out this amazing DVD that showcases many of the proceedings in the studio while working on the project.

This 35th Anniversary collection of Yes shares a lot of material with other compilations of theirs.

There have been a few books written about the band, Yes but this one really includes the involvement of many of the members of the group through extensive interviews. 

There were three new albums this time that disappointed me a bit.

This brand new live album from Yes is cool stuff. For one thing, it's great to get live recordings of all the Drama songs. There are also two epics from Tales from Topographic Oceans and the "Leaves of Green" part from "The Ancient" on that album. They round the section out with a few other Yes classics. The live sound is great.

I've seen Yes close to twenty times (more times than I've seen any other band), and I can tell you that despite the technicality of their music and instrumental prowess, no two Yes shows are the same. That's true even when you see them on multiple nights in a row. Each performance is a little different because the music tends to take on a life of its own in live gigs. So, don't expect to hear the studio versions exactly covered here. For one thing, the line-up is different. For another thing, I don't think I've ever heard a live Yes song sound exactly like the studio version. I mean, why would you want that? You can listen to the studio version any time. I think these renditions are very faithful, and bring a new life to the songs at times. I highly recommend this, especially for those (like myself) who really love Drama.

This brand new live album from Yes is cool stuff. For one thing, it's great to get live recordings of all the Drama songs. There are also two epics from Tales from Topographic Oceans and the "Leaves of Green" part from "The Ancient" on that album. They round the section out with a few other Yes classics. The live sound is great.

I've seen Yes close to twenty times (more times than I've seen any other band), and I can tell you that despite the technicality of their music and instrumental prowess, no two Yes shows are the same. That's true even when you see them on multiple nights in a row. Each performance is a little different because the music tends to take on a life of its own in live gigs. So, don't expect to hear the studio versions exactly covered here. For one thing, the line-up is different. For another thing, I don't think I've ever heard a live Yes song sound exactly like the studio version. I mean, why would you want that? You can listen to the studio version any time. I think these renditions are very faithful, and bring a new life to the songs at times. I highly recommend this, especially for those (like myself) who really love Drama.

There is a concept called "the sophomore jinx," which says that no matter how strong a debut album is, there is a good chance the follow up won't be as good. To some degree I think that's true here.

This album is fully instrumental. It’s a great disc, too. Some of the music here has appeared elsewhere (although most of the time in different arrangements)

Well, if there’s a question about this set, it’s "why wasn’t it done by Circa:?"

A lot of times we put things featuring progressive rock artists under prog, even when they don’t fit that banner based on the music.

This new various artists collection, as you would imagine, pays tribute to the music of Yes. It's an intriguing set.