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Music and Meaning Lead Willy Mason Wherever the Road Takes Him

Elizabeth Bennett | Thursday, August 5 2021 - 10:04am

Singer/songwriter Willy Mason spent New Year’s Eve 2019 at Signal Corps Recording in Brooklyn. At 11:30 p.m., he, producer Noel Heroux, and sound engineer Rachel Alina completed mixing the songs that would become Mason’s new album, Already Dead. It was a good way to end one decade and usher in a new one.

Then the global pandemic hit.

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