Using his touring band, which included keyboard player
Mike Finnigan and guitarist
Jim Krueger,
Dave Mason turned in a strong pop/rock collection on his second, self-titled Columbia album. "Show Me Some Affection" was one of those songs that should have been a hit single,
Mason recut a fuller version of "Every Woman," originally heard on It's Like You Never Left, and the album also included
Mason's version of
Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower," in an arrangement patterned after the one by
Jimi Hendrix, on which
Mason had played six years earlier. [Originally released by Columbia Records as Columbia 33096, Dave Mason was reissued on CD by One Way Records as One Way 26080 on October 31, 1995.] ~ William Ruhlmann