''It's Like You Never Left'' is an album by

Dave Mason David Thomas Mason (born 10 May 1946) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist from Worcester, who came to prominence in 1967 as a founding member of the rock band Traffic. While with Traffic, he wrote and sang lead vocals on two of the b ...

, released on 29 October 1973, on the

CBS Records CBS Records may refer to: * CBS Records, a former name of Sony Music, a global music company * CBS/Sony, a former name of Sony Music Entertainment Japan, a Japanese music company division of Sony * CBS Records International, a label for Columbia Re ...

label (S65258) in the UK and by

Columbia Records Columbia Records is an American reco ...

(PC 31721) in the US. It was reissued on CD in the US by

One Way Records One Way Records was an independent record label based in Albany, New York that specialized in budget reissues of classic rock albums. In the 1990s, it gained business pressing reissues of those records that had "fallen through the cracks" in the ...

(A 26077) in July 1995 and

Repertoire Records Repertoire Records is a record label from Hamburg, Germany (with UK subsidiaries in Leatherhead, Surrey and London), specialising in reissues of classic pop and rock albums originally issued in the 1960s and 1970s. It was founded in 1982 by Ki ...

(RES 2320) in Europe in 2005.

Track listing

Personnel

* Dave Mason,

Graham Nash Graham William Nash (born 2 February 1942) is a British and American musician, singer and songwriter. He is known for his light tenor voice and for his contributions as a member of the Hollies and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Crosby, Stills ...

(tracks: 1, 2, 5),

John Batdorf John Lee Batdorf (born March 26, 1952) is an American singer and songwriter from Yellow Springs, Ohio. Nephew of Earl Batdorf, aka Earl Scott, a Country singer who charted several hits during the mid-1960s. Early life Born in Springfield, Ohi ...

(track: 6) - vocals *

Clydie King Clydie Mae King (August 21, 1943 – January 7, 2019) was an American singer, best known for her session work as a backing vocalist. King also recorded solo under her name. In the 1970s, she recorded as Brown Sugar, and her single "Loneliness ( ...

, 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 Malcolm Cecil (9 January 1937 – 28 March 2021) was a British jazz bassist, record producer, engineer, electronic musician and teacher. He was a founding member of a leading UK jazz quintet of the late 1950s, the Jazz Couriers,Chuck Rainey Charles Walter Rainey III (born June 17, 1940) is an American bass guitarist who has performed and recorded with many well-known acts, including Aretha Franklin, Steely Dan, and Quincy Jones. Rainey is credited for playing bass on more than 1,00 ...

(track: 1),

Carl Radle Carl Dean Radle (June 18, 1942 – May 30, 1980) was an American bassist who toured and recorded with many of the most influential recording artists of the late 1960s and 1970s. He was posthumously inducted to the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame ...

(track: 3, 9), Charles Fletcher (track: 4),

Greg Reeves Gregory Allen Reeves (born ) is an American bass guitarist. He is best known for playing bass on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's album ''Déjà Vu'' (1970). Early life Reeves grew up in Warren, Ohio, and graduated from Warren Western Reserve Hi ...

(tracks: 5, 10), Lonnie Turner (track: 6) - bass guitar *

Jim Keltner James Lee Keltner (born April 27, 1942) is an American drummer and percussionist known primarily for his session work. He was characterized by Bob Dylan biographer Howard Sounes as "the leading session drummer in America". Howard Sounes. ''Do ...

(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 Stevland Hardaway Morris (; Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th c ...

- harmonica (track: 9)

Production

* Producer – Dave Mason * Co-producer – Malcolm Cecil * Arranged By – Dave Mason * Recorded By –

Al Schmitt Albert Harry Schmitt (April 17, 1930 – April 26, 2021) was an American recording engineer and record producer. He won twenty Grammy Awards for his work with Henry Mancini, Steely Dan, George Benson, Toto (band), Toto, Natalie Cole, Quincy Jone ...

, Glen Kolotkin, Malcolm Cecil * Mixed By – Al Schmitt

References

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