{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Lawrence Gowan of STYX on their latest album The Mission","description":"Lawrence Gowan is a Scottish-born Canadian musician, and keyboardist and lead vocalist for the legendary American rock band, Styx.  As a member of Styx for nearly twenty years, Gowan has recorded four studio albums and toured the world over, playing more than 1,600 shows with the band. In June of this year, Styx released their \u201csonically sweet\u201d 16th studio album, The Mission, which chronicles the trials, tribulations, and ultimate triumphs of the first manned mission to Mars in the year 2033. From the hopeful drive of the lead single \u201cGone Gone Gone\u201d to the pivotal harmonic convergence of \u201cRadio Silence\u201d to the elegiac optimism of the closing track \u201cMission to Mars,\u201d The Mission succeeds in delivering the greater good from a band that continues to fire on all cylinders, 45 years after signing its first recording contract. ","author_name":"Kelli Richards Presents All Access Radio","author_url":"http:\/\/allaccessradio.libsyn.com\/","html":"