That's the Way Love Goes is the twenty-second solo studio album by American country singer Connie Smith.

Connie Smith had 18 top ten country chart singles between 1964 and 1973 at the RCA Victor label.

However, their professional endeavors ended in creative differences and Smith sought out Ray Baker to record her next Columbia project titled That's the Way Love Goes.

Instead, the label brought forward three songs from studio sessions Smith had cut several months earlier.

[6] Columbia pulled "Ain't Love a Good Thing" (produced by George Richey) from her first session with the label on January 22, 1973.

[1] Among the album's new material was "My Uncle Abel", which biographer Barry Mazor described as "Cajun-influenced" and as a "family saga song".

[5] Smith also recorded a solo version of the George Jones and Tammy Wynette duet, "We're Gonna Hold On".

[3] The album's title track was first a number one single for Johnny Rodriguez before Smith cut the song.

Smith also chose to record a cover of the pop single for the album, "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree".

[12] All credits are adapted from the liner notes of That's the Way Love Goes[9] and the biography booklet by Barry Mazor titled The Latest Shade of Blue.