{"id":31282,"date":"2025-01-22T21:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T21:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/dave-mason-announces-new-album-and-tour-dates\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T21:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T21:02:24","slug":"dave-mason-announces-new-album-and-tour-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/dave-mason-announces-new-album-and-tour-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Mason announces new album and tour dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-22\/M_DaveMasonShadeofBlues_012225.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Barham Productions <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Traffic<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Dave Mason<\/strong> is back with some new music.<\/p>\n<p>The Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer is set to release his 21st studio album, <em>A Shade of Blues,<\/em> on March 21.<\/p>\n<p>The 11-track album, which Mason\u2019s been working on for over a decade, is described as a \u201cblues-infused masterpiece\u201d and features guest appearances by <strong>The Doobie Brothers<\/strong>\u2019 <strong>Michael McDonald<\/strong>, guitarist <strong>Joe Bonamassa<\/strong>, keyboardist <strong>Mike Finnigan<\/strong> and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy guitar playing has always drawn from the blues,\u201d Mason shares. \u201cThis album leans a little more heavily into that style, but not entirely\u2014that\u2019s why I call it <em>A Shade of Blue<\/em>s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>A Shade of Blues<\/em> is <a href=\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/DaveMasonAShadeOfBlues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>available for preorder<\/strong><\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p>The album is due out just as Mason will launch the new Let It Flow tour. The trek kicks off March 20 in Augusta, Georgia, and wraps April 5 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. A complete list of dates can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davemasonmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>davemasonmusic.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barham Productions Traffic\u2019s Dave Mason is back with some new music. The Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer is set to release his 21st studio album, A Shade of Blues, on March 21. The 11-track album, which Mason\u2019s been working on for over a decade, is described as a \u201cblues-infused<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/dave-mason-announces-new-album-and-tour-dates\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}