Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in the first place.
The Kind practiced on South Boulevard in Oak Park, sharing a space with legendary power-pop group Pezband. They bought a pink-painted mail truck at a local auction for $50 and started playing every gig possible: pool parties in Rolling Meadows, dances on downstate air force bases, suburban high school proms.
But once again, the Kind saga wasn’t over. Beginning in the late 2000s, Skora assembled an archival LP of early sessions by the core late-70s four-piece, with a couple songs featuring Rhodes or Cortese. Over the course of several years, he and a few other musicians—including Massa—polished them up with newly recorded overdubs and the addition of old lead-guitar parts from live recordings. The result, entitled Volume!, came out through Skora’s Black Parrot Music label in 2018.
- The version of “She’ll Make Everything Right” from the 2018 release Volume!
