Written by: Neil Young
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[talking about Freedom] Take "Too Far Gone," "Ways of Love," "Someday," and "Don't Cry" off the record. Those are the songs that bother me. The older songs all escaped when I wrote them. "Ways of Love" was a great song when I wrote it in '75, and if I had recorded it then ... But I made a remake of it. It's hard for me to go back when I feel like I should be taking care of the new ones. If I don't get it when it's new, forget it. Then it gets fucked up. That's another frustration of making records. But I don't really make records - I do performances and I record them. Neil Young The Village Voice/Jimmy McDonough December 1989
Now we've got a couple more of these kinds of songs. [...]I was thinking about some songs that we tried to record over the years that we never did get. That was one of them [Silver And Gold] there and here's another one. You'll kind of recognize from - they might have been on an album you might have heard that you never heard before. We're gonna do a Restless version here. Neil Young Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington, USA February 21, 1989
These songs are from the Archives. This goes back way back somewhere. It was going to be on Comes A Time. That's what it was going to be on. But we never quite got it. So since it sounded terrible we didn't use it. But the song was good - it's just that the record was bad. Neil Young Orpheum Theater, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada February 22, 1989
The Ways Of Love (version 1 of 3)
Session Date:March 21, 1989
Studio:Plywood Digital, Broken Arrow Ranch, CA
Produced by:Neil Young & Niko Bolas: "The Volume Dealers"
Recording type:Studio
Mono/Stereo:stereo
Length:4:27
Musicians:Neil Young: vocals, guitar, harmonica Chad Cromwell: drums Rick “The Bass Player” Rosas: bass Linda Ronstadt: vocals Ben Keith: pedal steel guitar
Available on:
Freedom Neil Young Released: 1989-10-02

Side 1 Track 7

Official Release Series Discs 22, 23+, 24 & 25 Neil Young Released: 2023-07-28

Disc 1 - Freedom Track 6

The Ways Of Love (version 2 of 3)
Session Date:May 20, 2020
Studio:Daryl Hannah & Neil Young's home, Telluride, Colorado, USA
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Recording type:Studio
Mono/Stereo:mono
Length:1:43
Musicians:Neil Young: acoustic guitar
Available on:
Fireside Sessions - Barnyard Edition Neil Young Released: 2020-05-20

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Timeless Orpheum Neil Young Released: 2020-12-22

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The Ways Of Love (version 3 of 3)
Session Date:June 6, 1984
Studio:Saddle Rack, San Jose, California, USA
Produced by:Neil Young
Recording type:Live
Mono/Stereo:stereo
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1984-06-06 - Saddle Rack, San Jose, California, USA Neil Young Released: 2021-04-06

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