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Artist:	Anne Murray
Title:	This Way Is My Way
Label:	Capitol
Country:	Canada
Catalogue:	ST 6330
Date:	1969
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	4 Own, 1 Wants
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Anne Murray	Bidin' My Time	Gene MacLellan	Rate
A2	Anne Murray	Sittin' Back Lovin' You	John Sebastian	Rate
A3	Anne Murray	No One Is To Blame	Steven Rhymer	Rate
A4	Anne Murray	I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home	Anne Bybee	Rate
A5	Anne Murray	Sunspots	Arthur Gee	Rate
A6	Anne Murray	He May Call	M. Brown, S. Martin	Rate
B1	Anne Murray	Thirsty Boots	Eric Anderson	Rate
B2	Anne Murray	Snowbird	Gene MacLellan	Rate
B3	Anne Murray	Hard As I Try	Gene MacLellan	Rate
B4	Anne Murray	I'll Be Your Baby Tonight	Bob Dylan	Rate
B5	Anne Murray	Nice To Be With You	Goldstein	Rate

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Phantom Gtowner 7th Mar 2020		Review Pop music is full of pretentiousness. Always was and always will be. You only need to look at people like Gene Simmons or Madonna to understand that. But Anne Murray was different, at least at first. Take a look at the photo of her on the cover of this LP, her second long play and her first for Capitol Records. Sitting on a large rock by a stream in her stylish early '70's pantsuit and downhome hairdo, she looks totally unhip and not what one might expect from a hitmaking pop singer. And I like that. The record is good too. The arrangements are simple and the words are real and honest. You can marvel at the latest flavour of the week rapper's oh so hip and meaningful lyrics if you want, but I think the words to Gene MacLellan's "Snowbird" are real poetry about a love lost and the heartbreak that comes with it. It's a simple country/folk/pop tune with a barebones accompanyment. Anne and her producer Brian Ahern left out one of the verses which is why it only clocks in at 2:08. I only found this out upon listening to Gene MacLellan's own version of the song a few years later. Another stand-out track is "Bidin' My Time" also written by MacLellan which might be my all-time favourite song by Anne. This should have been as big as "Snowbird" but it was released as a 45 immediately prior and got no airplay at all. Other unassuming yet very noteworthy songs include Eric Andersen's "Thirsty Boots", The Lovin' Spoonful's "Sittin' Back Lovin' You", Dylan's "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" and yet another MacLellan tune "Hard As I Try". But not everything on this record is great. She covers a not-quite-so-well-known Monkees' song "Nice To Be With You", it's not terrible or anything but down a notch from "Snowbird" for sure. This might not be my all-time favourite LP but it is a really steadfast effort from a young 24 year old girl from Springhill, N.S. who seemed to be a little bit out of her comfort zone and squinting in those bright lights. Her vulnerability was as refreshing as a cold Molson Canadian on a hot day. To this day I don't think Anne Murray gets it. "This Way Is My Way" is by far one her best works. It's uncluttered, rootsy and honest to a tee. Unlike her later work it's far better than those recordings with that "genius" overproducer David Foster in the 1980's. Her next couple of LP's after this one, "Straight, Clean And Simple" And "Honey, Wheat And Laughter", are pretty good too but just four years later in the mid 1970's she had lost her way. By then she was recording Beatles' songs like "Day Tripper" and "You Won't See Me" and a wonky white version of the old Doris Troy tune "Just One Look". Was she that hard up for material? If you haven't heard this LP in a long time, or maybe never, please give it a spin. You might be surprised. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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