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Old Ways is a country album by Neil Young, released in 1985. Young refers to this album in interviews as Old Ways II, as he had originally planned to release a country album titled Old Ways in 1983. Geffen objected to this, asking Young for a "rock 'n roll" album, which Young would give them as Everybody's Rockin'. Old Ways I would have contained many still-unreleased songs, one of which was "Depression Blues", which appeared on Young's Geffen-era compilation Lucky Thirteen.
[edit] Track listing
- "The Wayward Wind" – (Herb Newman / Stan Lebowsky) 3:12
- "Get Back to the Country" – 2:50
- "Are There Any More Real Cowboys?" – 3:03
- "Once an Angel" – 3:55
- "Misfits" – 5:07
- "California Sunset" – 2:56
- "Old Ways" – 3:08
- "My Boy" – 3:37
- "Bound for Glory" – 5:48
- "Where Is the Highway Tonight?" – 3:02
[edit] Personnel
- Neil Young: guitar, banjo-guitar, harmonica, vocal
- Waylon Jennings: guitar, vocal
- Willie Nelson: guitar, vocal
- Rufus Thibodeaux: fiddle
- Ben Keith: pedal steel guitar, dobro
- Tim Drummond: bass
- Karl Himmel: drums
- Joe Allen: bass (electric & upright)
- Ralph Mooney: pedal steel guitar
- Hargus "Pig" Robbins: piano
- Gordon Terry: fiddle
- Joe Osborn: bass
- Anthony Crawford: mandolin, vocal
- Terry McMillan: harmonica, Jew's harp
- Béla Fleck: banjo
- Bobby Thompson: banjo
- David Kirby: guitar
- Grant Boatwright: guitar
- Johnny Christopher: guitar
- Ray Edenton: guitar
- Gove Scrivenor: autoharp
- Farrell Morris: percussion
- Marty Stuart: mandolin
- Carl Gorodetzky: violin
- Spooner Oldham: piano
- Larry Byrom: vocal
- Rick Palombi: vocal
- Doana Cooper: vocal
- Denise Draper: vocal
- Gail Davies: vocal
- Betsy Hammer: vocal
- Pam Rose: vocal
- Janis Oliver-Gill: vocal
- Mary Ann Kennedy: vocal
- Kristine Oliver-Arnold: vocal
- Leona Williams: vocal
- Strings:
- Carl Gorodetsky, leader
- George Binkley
- John Borg
- Roy Christensen
- Virginia Christensen
- Charles Everett
- Larry Harvin
- Mark Hembree
- Lee Larrison
- Betty McDonald
- Dennis Molchan
- Pamela Sixfin
- Mark Tanner
- David Vanderkooi
- Gary Vanosdale
- Carol Walker
- Stephanie Woolf
