Partners, Brothers and Friends

Partners, Brothers and Friends
Studio album by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Released	1985
Genre	Country, country rock, folk rock, bluegrass
Label	Warner Bros. Nashville
Producer	Marshall Morgan, Paul Worley
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band chronology
Plain Dirt Fashion (1984) Partners, Brothers and Friends (1985) Twenty Years of Dirt (1986)
Singles from Partners, Brothers and Friends
"Modern Day Romance" Released: June 3, 1985 "Home Again in My Heart" Released: October 7, 1985 "Partners, Brothers and Friends" Released: February 24, 1986

Partners, Brothers and Friends is the sixteenth studio album by American country folk group Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. The album reached #9 on the US Country charts. The three singles from this album were top 10 on the US Country charts. "Modern Day Romance" went to #1, "Home Again in My Heart" went to 3, and "Partners, Brothers and Friends" went to 6.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Modern Day Romance"	Kix Brooks, Dan Tyler	3:50
2.	"Other Side of The Hill"	Chuck Pyle	3:20
3.	"Home Again in My Heart"	Josh Leo, Wendy Waldman	3:43
4.	"Telluride"	Jimmy Ibbotson	3:08
5.	"Old Upright Piano"	Kye Fleming, Don Schlitz	3:36
6.	"Partners, Brothers and Friends"	Ibbotson, Jeff Hanna	3:14
7.	"Redneck Riviera"	Bob Carpenter, Hanna	3:27
8.	"Queen of the Road"	Steve Goodman, Hanna, Ibbotson	3:06
9.	"As Long as You're Loving Me""	Schlitz, Lisa Silver, Russell Smith	4:35
10.	"Leon McDuff"	Mike Cross	3:45

Personnel

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

• Jeff Hanna – guitars and vocals
• Jimmy Ibbotson – bass, guitars, mandolin, vocals
• Jimmie Fadden – drums and harmonica
• Bob Carpenter – keyboards and vocals
• John McEuen – guitars, mandolin, fiddle, banjo and lap steel

Additional Musicians

• Guitar: Jerry Douglas, Josh Leo, Paul Worley.
  Steel guitar: Sonny Garrish. Mandolin: Sam Bush
• Bass: Joe Osborn, Larry Paxton
• Keyboards: Dennis Burnside
• Drums: Eddie Bayers, James Stroud
• Percussion: Tom Roady
• Fiddle: Ricky Skaggs, Blaine Sprouse

Chart performance

Chart (1985)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	9

References

All information is from the album liner notes unless otherwise noted. ^[1]

1. Partners, Brothers and Friends, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Warner Brothers Records (1985) CD