"This April it’s 31 years since I started in this business and that’s a pretty long time to be doing any job. I’m very proud of my musical history and what I’ve accomplished. Even though I‘m not the most prolific artist, the stuff that I’ve done means a lot so I thought that it would be nice to put an album out with little bits and pieces from all the four solo records that I’ve released. I’ve also completed 3 new songs so they are on it too. I took several songs from my first solo album Kasim that I did, from the Price Sulton album, from The Basement Tapes and from Quid Pro Quo. I chose certain tracks from each one of those records and I found some yet more unreleased demos that had never been heard before and compiled them all to a two disk double album. There’s 27 songs. When I started doing this, I figured I’d get them all together and slap them on a CD, put a cover together and throw it out there but it turned out to be much more complicated than I originally thought, getting all the material together to sound good (to make it sound as though it belonged on the same CD) was a lot harder than I expected so for the past month I’ve been looking at a computer screen all day (just like going to work every day!), just trying to get all this stuff together.

The cover looks really cool and the songs on it are really cool and I wrote some liner notes to it and it’s good some really good stuff on it so when it does finally come out on Valentine’s Day, so that if you get a chance to buy it then really it’s a cumulination of my work up until now so I’m very proud of it. The album is called All Sides meaning all sides of my life.”"

The album is expected to be available online but the release date may now be towards the end of February. The 3 new tracks are known to be Yellow Cab, Are You Happy Now and Minutes Slipping Past.

Pittsburgh
PittsburghLive.com has a nice mini-blurb - they call it a "wonderful show!

Also MakinMoneyEasy.com list the show:

I visited the venue this morning (to check where it was as I haven't been here in 5 years) and unfortunately there was absolutely no poster or mention of Kasim's gig there tomorrow evening.

Ann Arbor
ShopWizSite.com list Kasim's gig at The Ark in their Beyond The Weekend section:

Valparaiso
SouthBendTribune.com list Kasim's gig on Sunday in Valparaiso. The blurb has the unusual title "Meat Loaf musical director to perform"!

For these few gigs, I'd like to ask if people who go to his shows submit just a sentence or two about what they thought about the gig (good or bad) that I can post. Please e-mail them to SueW@KasimInfo.com. (Please state if you'd like your comments to be anonymous).