Alone Together/Headkeeper [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Product Description
Digitally Remastered Reissue of the Former Traffic Guitarist's First Solo Recordings after the Group Went their Separate Ways. Mason Based Himself in the United States Where Traffic Had Always Enjoyed Great Success. "Alone Together" features a Host of Top Session Musicians from Jim Gordon to Leon Russell. "Headkeeper" is Part Live with Mason Reworking Some of his Old Traffic Favourites plus New Material of the Time.

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Alone Together/Headkeeper [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Average customer rating: Better than you remember But where's "SATIN RED & BLACK VELVET WOMAN"???? Feelin' Alright About this Purchase Alone Together/Headkeeper remastered: Priceless. Dave Mason Revisited!

Alone Together/Headkeeper Dave Mason Manufacturer: Beat Goes On ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: It's Like You Never Left/Dave Mason Let It Flow Certified Live Spooky Two Live at Massey Hall (CD/DVD) ASIN: B00092MIDQ Release Date: 2005-06-06

Tracks:

1. Only You Know and I Know
2. Can't Stop Worrying, Can't Stop Loving
3. Waitin' on You
4. Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave
5. World in Changes
6. Sad and Deep as You
7. Just a Song
8. Look at You Look at Me
9. To Be Free
10. In My Mind
11. Here We Go Again
12. Heartache, A Shadow, A Lifetime
13. Headkeeper
14. Pearly Queen [Live]
15. Just a Song [Live]
16. World in Changes [*]
17. Can't Stop Worrying, Can't Stop Loving [*]
18. Feelin' Alright? [*]

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Reissue of the Former Traffic Guitarist's First Solo Recordings after the Group Went their Separate Ways. Mason Based Himself in the United States Where Traffic Had Always Enjoyed Great Success. "Alone Together" features a Host of Top Session Musicians from Jim Gordon to Leon Russell. "Headkeeper" is Part Live with Mason Reworking Some of his Old Traffic Favourites plus New Material of the Time.

Customer Reviews:

Better than you remember.......2007-04-03

Worth the money just for the Alone Together portion. The re-mastering quality is just excellent and I hear all sorts of instrumentation I missed on the vinyl. Who is the terrific piano player?

Alas, the booklet contains little or no information, sort of a waste, and the Headkeeper live set is forgettable.

Okay, so it doesn't have the swirling colors like the LP. Just listen to the music. Dave's best, far and away.

But where's "SATIN RED & BLACK VELVET WOMAN"????.......2006-11-17

Right after "Alone Together", blue Thumb issued a single called 'Satin Red & Black Velvet Woman", which is nice as anything on the LP, and it wasn't included on the very patchy "Headkeeper". It's become a lost track, even tho it actually charted a week or two!

What a dang shame that BGO didn't bother to fit it on this CD...which is the only reason why I haven't bought it, yet.

I'm disappointed that it isn't included.

Since "Headkeeper" is a such a patchy LP, I would've issued "Alone Together" with something close to the original nifty packaging and splatter CD, and included three lost Mason tracks:

"Just for You" and "Little Woman", issued as a solo single for UK Island and both sides features Family as the accompanying musicians. "Just For You" was subsequently included on "Last Exit", but it wasn't a Traffic track.

"Satin Red & Black Velvet Woman"

Then, they could've coupled "Headkeeper" with the also patchy "Dave Mason & Cass Elliot" blue Thumb LP!

Feelin' Alright About this Purchase.......2006-03-27

I absolutely LOVE this double CD! There are some duplicate songs however the ones off of the Headkeeper are live versions, which is fine by me. I have been listening to this CD non-stop since I got it and would HIGHLY recommend it to anyone interested in Dave Mason. The live Feelin' Alright is wonderful and funky. This Cd will be in heavy rotation on my 12 disc CD players so BUY IT NOW, you will not be disappointed.

Alone Together/Headkeeper remastered: Priceless........2005-10-09

In anticipation of the August 5, 2005 release of this disc, I sold off my MCA copy of 'Alone Together', and watched the price of the few 'Headkeeper' CD's on the market fall from thirty dollars plus into the five dollar range. The import release came first in early August, and I assumed a US (less expensive) version of the disc would follow shortly. When that didn't happen by early October, I broke down and purchased the British release. Despite the extra expense, I can already tell you that this is a musical trophy.

The remastering of 'Alone Together' has clearly produced the finest finished version of Dave Mason's seminal work. It's the only Dave Mason studio recording to provide a balanced mix of acoustic and electric passages, and each of the offerings is a classic composition. The disc stands as one of the most complete artistic pieces from rock and roll's most illustrious era. If it's acoustic ballads you seek, 'Can't Stop Worrying, Can't Stop Loving', 'World In Changes', 'Sad and Deep As You', and 'Just a Song' are four of Dave's finest. If it's vibrant electric rock you seek, 'Only You Know and I Know', 'Waiting On You', 'Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave', and 'Look At You Look At Me' are also four of Dave's finest. The recording boasts a who's who of rock luminaries, including Leon Russell, Jim Capaldi, Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, and Rita Coolidge, just to name a few.

'Headkeeper' was Mason's follow-up to 'Alone Together', and it features five studio tracks and five live recordings. The studio numbers, save the title track, show Dave already digging headfirst into the soft-rock, acoustic genre that would dominate his productions in the 1970's, and admittedly become rather tedious. The best of the five numbers are the opener, 'To Be Free' a piano based duet with Graham Nash, which blends nicely with the acoustic numbers from 'Alone Together', and the fouth song, 'A Heartache, A Shadow, A Lifetime', again featuring Nash. Sandwiched between are two more acoustic numbers. 'In My Mind' features a George Harrison-like slide guitar, while 'Here We Go Again' features an acoustic guitar plucked to sound like a mandolin. Both are less distinguished than anything heard previously on the disc. The title track winds up the studio offerings, and Dave finally pulls out the electric guitar and wah-pedal once again, but the song is weaker than the electric tracks offered on 'Alone Together', especially the lyrical content.

The disc comes to life again on the five live performances, all recorded during shows at The Troubador in Los Angeles. The opening and closing tracks, 'Pearly Queen' and the funk-rock 'Feelin' Alright' sound fresh and energetic with some fine guitar leads from Mason. Surprisingly, two of the more subdued tracks offered from 'Alone Together', 'Just a Song' and 'World In Changes', are beefed-up with the presence of vibrant organ runs and more pronounced drumming courtesy of "Dr." Rick Jaeger, and some nice conga from Flaco (Felix Falcon). 'Can't Stop Worrying, Can't Stop Loving' is actually more subdued than its studio counterpart, performed as a solo acoustic track by Mason.

The only disappointing aspect of this release is the packaging. The cardboard cover sleeve offers nothing not found elsewhere in the package, so it is rendered superfluous. The insert is dominated by John Tobler's biography of Dave Mason, but Tobler apparently had few resources to base his notes on beyond what one might find on the Internet. On several occasions Tobler "fills in the blanks" in Mason's career retrospective by speculating on what "presumably" or "apparently" was going on in his life. I also find it disappointing that no alternate takes or additional tracks were offered on the disc. To top it all off, the song listing appears four times in the inserts and on the disc itself, but nowhere are we offered the running times for the individual tracks. Thus, while the package looks nice, the substance is lacking. Despite these shortcomings, however, the fabulous work Dave Mason and crew did in writing and recording these numbers demands nothing less than a five-star rating. It is undoubtedly one of the finest musical productions I own.

Dave Mason Revisited!.......2005-08-08

Dave Mason remains one of classic rocks long under-appreciated guitarists and singers. In 1970, fresh from his break-up with Traffic, Mason released one of the great rock albums of the early seventies rock era. "Alone Together" is without question his greatest recorded achievement. Never has Mason sounded better, with help from some cutting edge musicians of the day, like Leon Russell, Jim Capaldi, Jim Keltner, Jim Gordon, Carl Radle, Delaney and Bonnie, Rita Coolidge, Claudia Lennear, and Don Preston. The power of such rock anthems as "Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave", with it's catchy Wah-Wah pedal and lyric is simply stunning. "Only You Know and I Know", was a top 40 hit for Mason, and has been a hit for "Delany and Bonnie", and "Rita Coolidge", on the cover circuit. "Look At You, Look At Me", is the best tune on a classic album that contains absolutely NO FILLER. "World In Changes" remains a concert favorite to this day. The world certainly has changed since then. The second album on this CD "Headkeeper", was an album Mason did not want released, due to contract problems with the record company. Hot on the heels of "Alone Together", the company had five studio recordings to work with, and to supplement the album, five live recordings were added. Some of the studio standouts here, is "To Be Free", which is a Mason closet classic, which sounds like it was recorded during the "Alone Together", sessions, complete with slow intro, eventually thundering into an all out guitar/gospel chorus which features Graham Nash, Rita Coolidge, and Spencer Davis. Songs like "Headkeeper", "In My Mind" and "A Heartache, A Shadow, A Lifetime", are all well crafted with catchy melodies and lyrics, and most of all well played. The live recordings are also done well, and may have been recorded in a small club environment. The highlights include: "Pearly Queen", and his signature tune, which became a huge hit for Joe Cocker, "Feelin Alright". The Cd has been remastered, and the sound is flawless and better than the cheap MCA version, which is a budget priced cd that doesn,t even afford you a liner note! That is a horrible way to treat a classic CD of this magnitude. This version gives you an eight page booklet, which include seven pages of very informative liner notes by John Tobler, along with many photo's from that time period. Finally, after all these years, Dave Mason's classic "Alone Together", has been released on CD with the artistic respect it truly deserves. If you are a fan of Dave mason, or just fan from that great era in rock history, this is a must have for your music library. Don't miss this one.

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