Exclusive Premiere: Watch a Clip From the Kansas Documentary 'Miracles Out of Nowhere' — billboard.com

When Kansas set out to make its forthcoming documentary Miracles Out of Nowhere, drummer and co-founder Phil Ehart wasn't expecting an epic endeavor. "I figured, 'Yeah, it'll take three or four months and we'll have it done," he tells Billboard. "Wrong. With Kansas, nothing is easy -- not even a documentary. So here we are, two and a half years later, and it's finally coming." The aptly titled film, which premiered Feb. 2 at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and will be released with an accompanying CD on March 24, traces the prog rock group's formation and rise from Topeka -- more REO Speedwagon country than King Crimson -- to an unlikely deal with the late Don Kirshner's record company and international stardom with enduring hits such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind." Director Charley Randazzo's film deals with the first six years and five albums of the group's history, an underdog's triumph that left Ehart and his bandmates even more surprised by their success now than perhaps during the mid-'70s.

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