That's the Way Love Goes is an album by American

United States

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 country

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 singer Merle Haggard

Merle Haggard

Merle Ronald Haggard is an American country music singer, guitarist, fiddler, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies,...

, released in 1983. It reached Number 8 on the Billboard Country album chart. Three singles were released with both "That's the Way Love Goes" and "Someday When Things are Good" reaching number one and "What Am I Gonna Do (With the Rest of My Life)" peaked at number 55.

At the Grammy Awards of 1985

Grammy Awards of 1985

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, That's the Way Love Goes won the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance

Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance

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.

Reissues

• That's the Way Love Goes was reissued on CD
  Compact Disc
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   by DCC Compact Classics in 2000.
• That's the Way Love Goes was reissued along with Going Where the Lonely Go
  Going Where the Lonely Go
  Going Where the Lonely Go is an album by American recording artist Merle Haggard, released in 1982. It peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Albums chart. The album bore two singles, both of which reached No...
  
  on CD
  Compact Disc
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   by S & P Records in 2005.

Track listing

1. "What Am I Gonna Do (With the Rest of My Life)" (Merle Haggard) – 3:35
2. "(I'm Gonna Paint Me) A Bed of Roses" (Haggard, Bobby Whitson) – 2:11
3. "Someday When Things Are Good" (Haggard, Leona Williams) – 3:38
4. "That's the Way Love Goes" (Lefty Frizzell
   Lefty Frizzell
   Lefty Frizzell , born William Orville Frizzell, was an American country music singer and songwriter of the 1950s, and a proponent of honky tonk music. His relaxed style of singing was an influence on later stars Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, George Jones and John Fogerty...
   
   , Sanger D. Shafer) – 3:04
5. "Carryin' Fire" (Red Lane) – 2:55
6. "Don't Seem Like We've Been Together All Our Lives" (Haggard) – 2:56
7. "If You Hated Me" (Haggard, Lane, Dean Holloway) – 2:42
8. "Love Will Find You" (Haggard) – 2:36
9. "The Last Boat of the Day" (Hank Cochran
   Hank Cochran
   Garland Perry "Hank" Cochran was an American country music singer and songwriter. Starting during the 1960s, Cochran was a prolific songwriter in the genre, including major hits by Patsy Cline, Ray Price, Eddy Arnold and others...
   
   , Lane) – 3:40
10. "I Think I'll Stay" (Haggard) – 4:43

Personnel

• Merle Haggard
  Merle Haggard
  Merle Ronald Haggard is an American country music singer, guitarist, fiddler, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies,...
  
   – vocals, guitar
• Roy Nichols
  Roy Nichols
  Roy Nichols was an American country music guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for Merle Haggard for more than two decades. He was known for his guitar technique, a mix of fingerpicking and pedal steel-like bends, usually played on a Telecaster.-Biography:Roy Ernest Nichols was born in...
  
   – guitar
• Reggie Young
  Reggie Young
  Reggie Young was lead guitarist in the American Sound Studios Band , and is a leading session musician. He played on various recordings with artists such as Elvis Presley, B.J. Thomas, John Prine, Dusty Springfield, J.J...
  
   – guitar
• Greg Galbraith – guitar
• Dave Kirby – guitar
• Glenn Martin – guitar
• Red Lane – guitar
• Norm Hamlet
  Norm Hamlet
  Norm Hamlet is an American steel guitarist best known as a member of Merle Haggard's Stranger's group. In 2005 Hamlet had quadruple heart bypass surgery and recovered well at his home in Bakersfield, California. In April 2006 while on tour with Merle Haggard Hamlet's Dobro was stolen and a reward...
  
   – steel guitar
• Dennis Hromek – bass
• Mike Leach – bass
• Gene Chrisman – drums
• Kenny Malone
  Kenny Malone
  Kenny Malone is an American drummer/percussionist from Nashville, Tennessee. He has been, since the 1970s, and continues to be a prominent session musician in folk, country and many other acoustic-based genres.-References:...
  
   – drums
• Biff Adams – drums
• Tiny Moore
  Tiny Moore
  Billie "Tiny" Moore was a Western swing musician who played the electric mandolin and fiddle with Western swing legend Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys in the 1940s....
  
   – fiddle, mandolin
• Jimmy Balken – fiddle
• Bobby Wood – keyboards
• Mark Yeary – keyboards
• Terry McMillan – harmonica
• Don Markham – horns

Chart performance

Chart (1983)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	8