It's Like You Never Left

1973 studio album by Dave Mason

Studio album by

Dave Mason

Released

29 October 1973

Recorded

1973

Studio

CBS Studios, San Francisco; Record Plant, Los Angeles; Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood, CA

Genre

Pop/rock

Length

34:40

Label

Columbia / CBS

Producer

Dave Mason

Dave Mason chronology

Dave Mason Is Alive
(1972)

It's Like You Never Left
(1973)

Dave Mason
(1974)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	C^[2]
MusicHound Rock	2/5^[3]
The Rolling Stone Record Guide	^[4]

It's Like You Never Left is an album by Dave Mason, released on 29 October 1973, on the CBS Records label (S65258) in the UK and by Columbia Records (PC 31721) in the US. It was reissued on CD in the US by One Way Records (A 26077) in July 1995 and Repertoire Records (RES 2320) in Europe in 2005. ^[5] ^[1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dave Mason, except "Side Tracked", co-written by Rick Jaeger, Lonnie Turner and Mark Jordan

Side A
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Baby... Please"	3:15
2.	"Every Woman"	1:40
3.	"If You've Got Love"	3:19
4.	"Maybe"	4:03
5.	"Headkeeper"	3:35

Side B
No.	Title	Length
6.	"Misty Morning Stranger"	4:30
7.	"Silent Partner"	3:03
8.	"Side Tracked"	3:30
9.	"The Lonely One"	4:42
10.	"It's Like You Never Left"	3:03
Total length:		34:40

Personnel

Dave Mason, Graham Nash (tracks: 1, 2, 5), John Batdorf (track: 6) - vocals
Clydie King, Julia Tillman Waters, Kathleen Saroyan, Maxine Willard Waters (tracks: 3, 10) - backing vocals
Dave Mason, George "Son Of Harry" Harrison (track: 3) - guitar
Mark Jordan - piano (tracks: 3, 6, 9), organ (track: 9)
Malcolm Cecil - Moog programming (track: 7)
Dave Mason - Moog bass synthesizer (track: 7)
Chuck Rainey (track: 1), Carl Radle (track: 3, 9), Charles Fletcher (track: 4), Greg Reeves (tracks: 5, 10), Lonnie Turner (track: 6) - bass
Jim Keltner (tracks: 3, 5, 9, 10), Rick Jaeger (tracks: 1, 6, 7) - drums
Rocky Dzidzornu (tracks: 1, 7), Larry "Nastyee" Latimer (track: 10) - congas
Denny Morouse, Norma Jean Bell, Steve Madaio (track: 6) - horns
Stevie Wonder - harmonica (track: 9)^[5]

Production

Producer – Dave Mason
Co-producer – Malcolm Cecil
Arranged By – Dave Mason
Recorded By – Al Schmitt, Glen Kolotkin, Malcolm Cecil
Mixed By – Al Schmitt^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b Ruhlmann, William. "Dave Mason It's Like You Never Left". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: M". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved 7 March 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
^ Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel, eds. (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink Press. p. 721. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
^ Marsh, Dave; Swenson, John, eds. (1983). The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. New York, NY: Random House/Rolling Stone Press. p. 318. ISBN 0-394-72107-1.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Dave Mason – It's Like You Never Left". Discogs. Retrieved 11 May 2015.