Interview with Billy Sherwood from 2011

Interview with Billy Sherwood from 2013

Interview with Billy Sherwood from 2015

Interview with Billy Sherwood of Yoso from 2010

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 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.

Only the second album in the history of Yes to be recorded without Jon Anderson, this one, particularly since it’s the only other Yes disc with Geoff Downes on keyboards, is obviously compared to Drama.

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

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. 

While any Yes album is better than the music of a lot of other bands, this is probably the group’s weakest live album.

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.

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.

The last couple albums from William Shatner have landed in my “best of” lists for those two years.

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.

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 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.