This Way Is My Way Explained

This Way Is My Way
Type:Studio
Artist:Anne Murray
Cover:This_Way_Is_My_Way666.PNG
Released:February 1969
Recorded:1968
Genre:Country
Label:Capitol
Producer:Brian Ahern
Prev Title:What About Me
Prev Year:1968
Next Title:Honey, Wheat and Laughter
Next Year:1970

This Way Is My Way is the second studio album by Canadian country pop artist Anne Murray and was released in 1969 on Capitol Records.[1] [2] Initially the album was available only in Canada. It was later made available in the U.S after Murray's chart success there in the 1970s. The album included recordings of songs by Eric Andersen, Gene MacLellan, and Bob Dylan.

A single release of "Snowbird" was issued in the U.S. in 1970, where it reached No. 8 in the Billboard Top 10 and started Murray's career there. The album peaked at No.13 on the Canadian RPM album chart on 20 February 1971.

Buddy Cage plays pedal steel guitar on this album. He went on to join the New Riders of the Purple Sage.The album cover features Murray sitting at the base of Albion Falls in Hamilton, Ontario.

Personnel

Reference source: Re-release of the original This is My Way album in a remastered CD series of Anne Murray albums originally released in long playing vinyl record form. This is My Way was Murray's first album for Capitol Records. EMI Canada 72434 35467 2 9

Notes and References

  1. Book: King, Betty Nygaard . The Canadian Encyclopedia . Hale . James . 26 June 2018 . Historica Canada . Anne Murray . 2024-11-16 . November 20, 2011 . https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/anne-murray-emc.
  2. Book: The Canadian Encyclopedia . January 11, 2023 . Historic Canada . Toronto . Round 5: How do you get from... . 2024-11-16 . March 15, 2016 . https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/how-do-you-get-from-the-first-world-war-to-anne-murray.