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Released
  
1972

Artist
  
Dave Mason

Label
  
Island Records

Producers
  
Dave Mason, Tommy LiPuma

Recorded
  
1972

Release date
  
February 1972

Genre
  
Rock music

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Headkeeper(1972)
  
Dave Mason Is Alive(1973)

Similar
  
Dave Mason albums, Rock music albums

Dave mason headkeeper full album 1972


Headkeeper is a 1972 album by Dave Mason. Originally released on Blue Thumb Records as Blue Thumb 34 (a subsidiary of Famous Music Group), Headkeeper was reissued by MCA Records as MCA 712, then reissued on CD in 1988 as MCAD-31326).

Contents

Dave mason to be free headkeeper 1972


Recording and release

In late 1971, Mason began recording Headkeeper. He envisioned a double album with one disk containing new studio recordings and the other live recordings with his new band. The live tracks had been recorded at some highly regarded dates at the Troubadour club in Los Angeles.

Mason thought that since he was Blue Thumb's most successful artist that they should renegotiate his contract. When they refused, he slipped into the studio and took the master tapes of the recordings made to date.

Producer Tommy LiPuma then assembled an album from two-track safety masters that Mason did not take which Blue Thumb released. Mason publicly denounced the release as a "bootleg".

Mason eventually signed a deal with Columbia Records who bought out his Blue Thumb contract.

Blue Thumb issued Dave Mason Is Alive in 1973 with remaining tracks from the Troubadour set.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Dave Mason; except where indicated.

Side one

  1. "To Be Free" - 3:19
  2. "In My Mind" - 3:19
  3. "Here We Go Again" (Cass Elliot, Bryan Garo) - 1:56
  4. "A Heartache, A Shadow, A Lifetime" - 3:35
  5. "Headkeeper" - 4:39

Side two

  1. "Pearly Queen" (Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood) - 3:32
  2. "Just A Song" - 3:01
  3. "World In Changes" - 4:47
  4. "Can't Stop Worrying, Can't Stop Loving" - 3:04
  5. "Feelin' Alright" - 5:40

Personnel

  • Dave Mason - electric and acoustic guitar, vocals
  • Felix Falcon aka "Flaco" - conga and percussion
  • "Dr." Rick Jaeger - drums
  • Mark Jordan - piano and keyboard instruments
  • Lonnie Turner - bass

    • Background vocals (Special thanks to):

  • Rita Coolidge
  • Spencer Davis
  • Kathi McDonald
  • Graham Nash

    • Production

  • Songs 1-5 were recorded at Sunset Sound Studios, Hollywood (Wayne Dailey, recordist)
  • Songs 6-10 are excerpts from live performances at the Troubadour
  • Recording and mixing engineer - Al Schmitt
  • Remote equipment by Wally Helder and crew - Miles Weiner, Terry Stark, Chris Chigaridas
  • Mastered by Bob MacLeod at Artisan Sound Recorders, Hollywood
  • Photography by Bill Matthews
  • Album design by Ruby Mazur's Art Department

    • Chart positions

    Headkeeper Track

    Songs

    1To Be Free3:17
    2In My Mind3:14
    3Here We Go Again1:53

    References

    Headkeeper Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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