This weekend in Rockford is the Annual "On the Waterfront" festival, which includes multiple stages of live music every day, all day. Sunday night, Kansas will be performing along with opening act Dave Mason. At one time, the late 1960's, Dave Mason was considered an up-and-coming guitar player/song-writer. A founding member, along with Steve Winwood of the jazzy, folky rock band Traffic, when the first band broke up (Winwood joined Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Rick Gresch in Blind Faith), Mason hoped to turn a successful band in to an even more successful solo career.
When Winwood reformed Traffic and recorded, first John Barleycorn, then The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys, he didn't invite Mason along. The results were some of the best music ever. Below is the title track to the second album named.
