Record basics

• Album name: Rockfish Crossing
• Group name: Mason Proffit
• Year: 1972
• Number of discs: one
• Label: Warner Bros.
• Collection: Brenner / Gessner
• Who owned it: probably my father
• Buy it on Amazon: $25.00

My review

Level of familiarity before listening

I have no idea who Mason Proffit is (are?) and I just hope he (they?) won’t have anything to do with Dave Mason.

What I expected

I’m getting a bad, bad sense about this group and this record from the album, which portrays five men, or possibly four men and a woman, dressed as Cowboys (TM)^[1] in a Disney-like image of the Wild West (TM). Flipping open the album, I’m extremely concerned by the one lyric that my eye happened to catch, on a song called Hobo: “I’m just a hobo with a guitar / And a little bit of money in the bank…”.

What it was actually like

Ok, this was nowhere near as bad as I thought. It was actually pretty solid country rock, though much of it didn’t really stand out as interesting or original. Breakin’ Down was a pretty good bluegrass song, and Better Find J*sus was rock and much more excellent. Probably the best song on “Rockfish Crossing” was the final track, Medley: George’s Jam / Call Me the Breeze, which had a great blues sound but didn’t overdo anything.

Grade

4/5: would listen again