Dave Mason was just 22 when he started recording his debut album, Alone Together. Recently departed from his band Traffic, which he co-founded three years earlier with Steve Winwood, and the late Chris Wood and Jim Capaldi, Mason found himself in America in 1969, pulling together tracks he had originally written for the band’s third album. Enlisting an assemblage of top studio musicians, including singers Rita Coolidge and Bonnie Bramlett, pianist Leon Russell, bassist Chris Etheridge, and drummers Jim Gordon, Jim Keltner, and even Traffic bandmate Capaldi, all offered their musical part in Mason’s solo career. Alone Together was a timeless tale of the era, a slight naivete, and the beginning of a massive musical journey.
Tina Eves 