The Mysterious Mr. Mason, Cont'd

Not that we expect any of y'all to remember this, but we left you hanging a couple of months back. See, we dug up a copy of Lee Mason's "Shady Blues", which we first fell in love with as a much-used hip-hop sample. And at the conclusion of that long-ago post, we promised to "follow up soon with a couple of posts on contemporary cuts that rely on Mason's lazy groove."

But as is our occasional wont, alas, we forgot all about that promise—we blame an overly hectic summer of work, work, work. But n