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Artist:Anne Murray
Title:This Way Is My Way
Label:  Capitol
Country:Canada
Catalogue:ST 6330
Date:1969
Format:LP
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Community: 4 Own, 1 Wants
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
A1Anne MurrayBidin' My TimeGene MacLellanRate
A2Anne MurraySittin' Back Lovin' YouJohn SebastianRate
A3Anne MurrayNo One Is To BlameSteven RhymerRate
A4Anne MurrayI Wonder How The Old Folks Are At HomeAnne BybeeRate
A5Anne MurraySunspotsArthur GeeRate
A6Anne MurrayHe May CallM. Brown, S. MartinRate
B1Anne MurrayThirsty BootsEric AndersonRate
B2Anne MurraySnowbirdGene MacLellanRate
B3Anne MurrayHard As I TryGene MacLellanRate
B4Anne MurrayI'll Be Your Baby TonightBob DylanRate
B5Anne MurrayNice To Be With YouGoldsteinRate


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Phantom Gtowner
7th Mar 2020
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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.

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