“The thing is, the mainstream Christian person in America has no interest in anything that sounds like progressive rock at all. But on the whole this is a prog album, for prog fans.” Neal Morse is a little hoarse. We catch him the day before August’s Morsefest, his annual convention at his local church in White House, Tennessee; there’ll be another at the Netherlands’ fabled Boerderij club the following weekend. He and his band – long-time friend and drummer Mike Portnoy, bassist Randy George, guitarist Eric Gillette and keyboardist Bill Hubauer – have been rehearsing hard alongside their string and horn sections.
“Morsefest has taken on a life of its own,” he tells Prog, all rock star-gravelly and looking two-thirds of his 63 years. “It’s this special event for a…
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