Split Coconut Explained

Split Coconut
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Dave Mason
Cover:	Split Coconut.jpg
Released:	September 1975
Genre:	Rock
Label:	Columbia
Producer:	Bruce Botnick, Dave Mason
Prev Title:	The Best Of Dave Mason
Prev Year:	1974
Next Title:	Certified Live
Next Year:	1976

Split Coconut is an album by Dave Mason, released in October 1975. It was reissued on CD on the One Way label in 1995.

Reception

Allmusic's brief retrospective review called the album a major disappointment after Mason's first two albums for Columbia, claiming that the songs seem both hastily written and hastily recorded.

Track listing

All songs by Dave Mason unless otherwise noted.

Side One

1. "Split Coconut"
2. "Crying, Waiting, Hoping" (Buddy Holly)
3. "You Can Lose It" (Dave Mason, Jim Krueger)
4. "She's a Friend"
5. "Save Your Love"

Side Two

1. "Give Me a Reason Why"
2. "Two Guitar Lovers" (Maureen Grey)
3. "Sweet Music"
4. "Long Lost Friend"

Personnel

• Dave Mason – vocals, guitar, slide guitar
• Jim Krueger – guitar
• Graham Nash – guitar, background vocals
• Gerald Johnson – bass
• Mark T. Jordan – organ, keyboards, clavinet
• Jai Winding – organ, synthesizer, piano, keyboards
• Rick Jaeger – drums
• Emil Richards – percussion, marimba
• The Manhattan Transfer – vocals, background vocals
• David Crosby – vocals, background vocals