Like It This Way

[slipkid]

I'm guessing the Chess sessions is where the rest of the band heard this tune for the first time. Peter Green's response doesn't mimic very well to Kirwan's call. I think when the band recorded an early version of "Man of the World" in New York a week or two later they re-recorded "Like It This Way". That version can be found on "Jumping At Shadows...The Blues Years", or "The Vaudeville Years". By then the song is polished.

I think of all those songs that went wasted because Peter Green left the band: 'Sandy Mary' (Green), 'World in Harmony', 'Loving Kind', 'Like it This Way' (done properly), 'Only You'. None of these songs made it to a proper album. Then there's "One Sided Love" which was never recorded in the studio. Danny Kirwan was a well of ideas, that's for sure. You combine the above with Kirwan's songs from "Kiln House", and you have a very strong album. I'd even throw in Hi-Ho Silver, and This is the Rock.