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Title: Mason's First Solo Album is Also His Best
Review: After leaving the progressive rock band Traffic, Dave Mason went solo and became less and less adventurous with his music as time went on. "Alone Together" is the best of his original studio efforts, and is probably a better buy than his recent greatest hits albums. Turning his back on Traffic's heady brew of jazz-pop fusion, Mason opted for a more comfortable laid back folk rock style, which shows itself most completely on songs like "Only You Know and I Know," "Just a Song" and "Can't Stop Worrying, Can't Stop Loving." "Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave" is the hardest rocking effort on this album, but that is really only by comparison. Lyrically, Mason is not the wordsmith to compare with his former bandmate, Steve Windwood, but on the other hand there's nothing laughable here either.Overall, "Alone Together" is a solid early 1970s mainstream rock album recorded back when Dave Mason was still a viable and important force in rock music.
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