Old Ways
by Neil Young
- Type: Album
- Released: 12 August 1985
- Label: Geffen
- Country: United States
- Length: 36:37
- Community rating: 2.72/5 from 2 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
After facing a lawsuit from Geffen Records for producing uncharacteristic music, Neil Young delivered this pure, unapologetic dive into traditional country and honky-tonk. Featuring guest appearances from Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, the album is packed with fiddles, pedal steel, and deeply sentimental, pastoral songwriting. 'Old Ways' is a warm, highly melodic, and incredibly traditionalist pivot in his famously experimental 80s era.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, nature
Tracklist
- The Wayward Wind (3:10)
- Get Back To The Country (2:50)
- Are There Any More Real Cowboys? (3:03)
- Once An Angel (3:54)
- Misfits (5:05)
- California Sunset (2:56)
- Old Ways (3:08)
- My Boy (3:37)
- Bound For Glory (5:48)
- Where Is The Highway Tonight? (3:02)
Credits
- Neil Young - primary artist, producer [produced by], songwriter, acoustic guitar, vocals, electric guitar, harmonica, arranged by [arrangement], banjo
- Buddy Lee Attractions - booking
- Steeleworks - design
- Tommy Steele - design
- Clarke Schleicher - engineer [assistant]
- J.T. Cantwell - engineer [assistant]
- Gene Eichelberger - engineer [engineered by]
- Tim Mulligan - engineer [engineered by]
- Bobby Arnold - engineer [second engineer]
- Keith Odle - engineer [second engineer]
- Larry Greenhill - engineer [second engineer]
- Tim Foster - equipment [equipment handling]
- Denny Purcell - lacquer cut by, mastered by [originally mastered by]
- Elliot Roberts - management [direction]
- Lookout Management - management [direction]
- Dennis Keeley - photography by [photos]
- Ben Keith - producer [produced by], dobro, arranged by [arrangement], steel guitar [steel]
- David Briggs - producer [produced by]
- Elliot Mazer - producer [produced by]
- Herbert Newman - songwriter
- Stan Lebowsky - songwriter
- David Kirby - acoustic guitar
- Grant Boatwright - acoustic guitar
- Johnny Christopher - acoustic guitar
- Ray Edenton - acoustic guitar
- Charles Cochran - arranged by [string arrangement by]
- Gove Scrivenor - autoharp
- Doana Cooper - backing vocals [background vocal], backing vocals [background vocals]
- Béla Fleck - banjo
- Joe Osborn - bass
- Karl Himmel - drums
- Waylon Jennings - electric guitar, vocals
- Terry McMillan - harmonica, jew's harp
- Farrell Morris - percussion
- Hargus Robbins - piano
- Betty MacDonald - strings
- Carol Walker - strings
- Charles Everett - strings
- David Vanderkooi - strings
- Dennis Molchan - strings
- Gary Vanosdale - strings
- George Binkley - strings
- John Borg - strings
- Larry Harvin - strings
- Lee Larrison - strings
- Mark Hembree - strings
- Mark Tanner - strings
- Pam Sixfin - strings
- Roy Christensen - strings
- Stephanie Woolf - strings
- Virginia Christensen - strings
- Carl Gorodetzky - strings, leader, violin
- Denise Draper - vocals
- Bobby Thompson - banjo
- Joe Allen - bass, double bass [upright bass]
- Rufus Thibodeaux - fiddle
- Anthony Crawford - mandolin, vocals, backing vocals [background vocals]
- Ralph Mooney - steel guitar [steel]
- Willie Nelson - acoustic guitar, vocals
- Betsy Hammer - backing vocals [background vocals]