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“Feelin’ Alright?”

“FOR SOMETHING THAT’S only two chords, it’s been pretty good to me,” guitarist Dave Mason says of his 1968 Traffic classic “Feelin’ Alright?” Over the years, the song has been recorded by everybody from Three Dog Night and Grand Funk Railroad to Paul Weller, Gladys Night and the Pips, Isaac Hayes and others. And then there’s Joe Cocker, whose 1969 rollicking interpretation Mason calls “the definitive version.”

“Let’s face it —

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