Poised with the difficult prospect of repeating the success of the previous year's Leftoverture, Kansas continued the trend of shorter, but no less electric, songs. Their follow-up album, Point Of Know Return, again produced by Jeff Glixman, fortunately charted a similar course, reaching the US No. 4 and again earning multi-platinum sales status.

Kansas stems from the unlikely place of (you guessed it) Kansas. In the late 60s, high school classmates Phil Ehart and Kerry Livgren each led competing bands in their native Topeka. By 1970, the two bands united as Kansas, only to split the following year. Drummer Ehart then went to England to look for musical inspiration (which he didn't find), and quickly returned to reform his original band, White Clover. He recruited Steve Walsh and Robby Steinhardt along the way, while bassist Dave Hope and guitarist Rich Williams joined in 1972.