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Artist:	MASON, DAVE
Title:	Alone Together
Label:	REV-OLA (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	CRREV 251CD

"One-time Kim Fowley protégé, one-time Spencer Davis guitar tech, Dave Mason was a key and founding member of psych/pop/funk/soul/fusion legends, Traffic. The writer of many of the band's early classics, including the timeless and much-covered 'Feelin Alright?,' Mason was the first to leave due to the classic 'musical differences.' Moving to the U.S., his first solo album was one of the many recordings to come out of the Leon Russell/Delaney & Bonnie axis in 1969/1970. Alone Together contains excellent, tightly-constructed pop songs, redolent of his singles for Traffic, albeit extended in the then new style, built on a fat bed of acoustic guitars with tasteful electric guitar accents. Mason's vocals are embellished with harmonies from Rita Coolidge, Claudia Lennear and Delaney & Bonnie. Besides the hit 'Only You Know and I Know,' (also a hit for Delaney & Bonnie) highlights include the bouncy gospel-inflected 'Waitin' On You' and the banjo-bejeweled 'Just a Song.' 'Look at You Look at Me' and the wonderfully wah-wahed 'Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave' are reminiscent of Traffic, whose drummer, Jim Capaldi is among the all-star cast assembled here. Alone Together represents Dave Mason at something of an early peak."

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