Unfortunately, he was signed to a crappy record company at the time, and got into a contract dispute with them. He stopped working on his second solo album, Headkeeper, so the company put out one side of the album with the songs they did have, and put five songs from the Troubadour shows on the second side. Then, in 1973, having lost Mason as an artist, the company put out another album of material they owned called Dave Mason Is Alive. It was seven songs from the Troubadour shows, but strangely, they used two of the exact same performances as on the Headkeeper album!
What I’ve done is take the unique songs from both albums and put them together. It makes a nice 46-minute long live album. I have no idea about the song order, but I made an educated guess based on a set list from another 1971 Mason show. Due to the record company troubles, Dave Mason Is Alive is long out of print.
01 Pearly Queen (Dave Mason)
02 World in Changes (Dave Mason)
03 Can't Stop Worrying, Can't Stop Loving (Dave Mason)
04 Walk to the Point (Dave Mason)
05 Shouldn't Have Took More than You Gave (Dave Mason)
06 Only You Know and I Know (Dave Mason)
07 Sad and Deep as You (Dave Mason)
08 Just a Song (Dave Mason)
09 Look at You, Look at Me (Dave Mason)
10 Feelin' Alright (Dave Mason)
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The album cover photo features Mason in July 1971, while briefly reunited with Traffic.
Thanks for this!
ReplyDeleteJust for the record, "Pearly Queen" was written by Winwood/Capaldi. Blue Thumb credited Mason, but that was an error.
ReplyDeleteGracias por compartir tu música! Excelente sitio.
ReplyDeleteGracias!
DeleteOnly years after 'Dave Mason is Alive' went out of print did it one day occur to me me that it would've be nice to have the complete '71 Troubadour show, but by then it was too late. While 'Headkeeper' was still widely available both in analog form and digitally, finding a playable copy of 'DMIA' proved to be something of a challenge for me. And now you've created what I had wanted to do! Thanks so much, not only for the music, but for doing the work as well. Many thanks!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome. I just wish there could be an official release that does this, and releases the rest of the show for good measure.
Deletebonsoir j'ai ce L.P. la pochette est différente. Je l'ai numérisé *.wav 16 bit pour le faire connaitre à des amis. tout me semble en live mais les je ne me rappelle pas des trois premiers titres. wetransfer ok
ReplyDeleteI don't speak French, but I translated your comment. This album comes from two sources. That's why you don't recognize all the songs from just one album.
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