The album Willy Mason Appears greatly with Already Dead as he brings out abstract insights in lyrics accompanied by strong instrumentals. For nine years, Mason has been an absent shadow, however, he welcomes the audience with a deep reflection that is incredibly reverberating in the modern world. His deep voice is quite familiar, and such a style helps to engage the listeners into sharing his thoughts on what is happening in the world as well as his own life. Songs such as “Love and Devotion” include the powerful story of love and lost, the melodies and the general feel of the songs are simultaneously potentially traditional and modern. Mason’s talent in putting to music the human orations makes “Already Dead” an engrossing album, which provoking us after all that music is capable of healing.
