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Still under contractual agreements, the band expected to produce another album. The band recorded demos with an altered lineup that swapped
Anderson for Dave Howell on guitar and keyboards and added Ferdy Baumgart on a Hammond B3 and guitar. Baumgart was highly influential on the band's arrangements,
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of the group's advancement into psychedelic music, along with unreleased material showing that the band was venturing outside the genre. Before the
Roulette sessions, Blair Honeyman replaced Don Shuford on Bass guitar, due to the military draft in 1969. Finally, in 1970 The Morning Dew's debut
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Morning Dew was inducted into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame, where they had a reunion performance during the induction ceremony at Liberty Hall in Lawrence, Kansas.
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