Kit Watkins

The North Carolina-based keyboardist creates finely crafted music that always seems to straddle a handful of genres with ease, and resists easy identification with the "new age" tag. He was a founding member of the short-lived yet highly original progressive '70s band Happy the Man. After briefly joining the British prog rock band Camel in 1979, Watkins began issuing solo albums, including the particularly noteworthy Labyrinth (1980), Frames of Mind (1982, with Brad Allen), and In Time (1985, with former Happy the Man drummer Coco Roussel). In subsequent years Watkins continue...