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Feelin' Alright? and Look At You Look At Me (5:07) are performed by Dave Mason live in 1973 rock concert. The former band member of Traffic wrote Feeling Alright for the 1968 debut album Traffic. Joe Cocker recorded a more popular version of the Seventies classic rock standard. Concert favorite Look At You, Look At Me is the final track of Dave Mason's 1970 debut album Alone Together. He was joined on the album by renown musicians Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Russell, Jim Capaldi, Rita Coolidge, Carl Radle and Jim Gordon. “Only You Know and I Know“ was the record's major commercial success, reaching number #42 on the US Billboard chart. Also check out Dave Mason, the founding member of Traffic, and Steve Cropper, a founding member of Booker T. & The M.G.'s live in concert on the Dave Mason and Steve Cropper Rock & Soul Revue at The Rose, Pasadena, CA on September 28, 2018: update July 21, 2020: Dave Mason has rerecorded his 1968 Traffic classic “Feelin’ Alright” for the quarantine age with help from Sammy Hagar, Mick Fleetwood, Michael McDonald, and the Doobie Brothers. The song wasn’t a huge hit when it appeared on the first Traffic record, but it’s since been covered by everyone from Joe Cocker and Three Dog Night to the Jackson Five, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Paul Weller and Isaac Hayes. “Who would have thought that this would go on to be covered by so many different artists and bands, you just never know,” Mason says in a statement. “But what I do know today is that people need some hope and comfort and especially music, which is why I called up some friends to rerecord a special version of the song. To do this remotely was somewhat challenging, hence the name ‘The Quarantines,’ but the spirit of strength, hope and heart prevail.” The group that Mason recruited for this new rendition of “Feelin’ Alright’,” which is fleshed out by Mason’s drummer Alvino Bennett and Pat Simmons, Jr. (the son of Doobie Brothers guitarist Pat Simmons), are calling themselves Dave Mason and the Quarantines. The song premiered on SiriusXM’s Vinyl Channel. Best Classic Bands album rewind review June 2020: Wherever its music ranks in rock’s grand pantheon, there’s no debating that Alone Together is among the great visual experiences ever to land on a turntable. Dave Mason’s 1970 solo debut-with “solo” the key qualifier given his accomplishments to that point— featured on about a third of its copies striking “marble” vinyl, whose greys, whites, reds and browns swirled together hypnotically 33 1/3 times each minute. Packaged in a foldout sleeve designed to turn the record into a wall hanging, its presentation was emblematic of the album as a whole: thoughtful and vibrantly detailed, distinguished by impeccable craft. Co-produced by Mason and Tommy LiPuma, Alone Together reached #22 on the Billboard album chart, the highest placement among Mason’s 14 albums to make that chart between 1970-76. Mason achieved renown as a founding member of Traffic whose on-and-off membership included a sizable contribution to the group’s self-titled 1968 record, highlighted by Mason’s “Feelin’ Alright?” The song only reached #123 on the singles chart in its original version but would be immortalized by Joe Cocker’s rendition the same year, which reached #69.
