Partners, Brothers and Friends (album)

1985 studio album by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

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)

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Singles from  Partners, Brothers and Friends

1. "Modern Day Romance"
Released: June 3, 1985
2. "Home Again in My Heart"
Released: October 7, 1985
3. "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

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No.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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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

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### The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

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* 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

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* 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

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Chart (1985)  | Peak
position

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U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums  | 9

## References

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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

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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

* Jeff Hanna
* Ross Holmes
* Jim Photoglo
* Jackson Browne
* Chris Darrow
* Jimmy Ibbotson
* Bernie Leadon
* John McEuen

Studio albums|

* The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
* Ricochet
* Rare Junk
* Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy
* All the Good Times
* Stars & Stripes Forever
* Symphonion Dream
* The Dirt Band
* An American Dream
* Make a Little Magic
* Jealousy
* Let's Go
* Plain Dirt Fashion
* Partners, Brothers and Friends
* Hold On
* Workin' Band
* The Rest of the Dream
* Not Fade Away
* Acoustic
* The Christmas Album
* Bang, Bang, Bang
* Welcome to Woody Creek
* Speed of Life

Collaboration albums|

* Will the Circle Be Unbroken
* Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two
* Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Volume III

Live albums|

* Alive
* Live Two Five

Compilation albums|

* Dirt, Silver and Gold
* Twenty Years of Dirt
* More Great Dirt

Singles|

* "Mr. Bojangles"
* "House at Pooh Corner"
* "I Saw the Light"
* "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)"
* "The Battle of New Orleans"
* "All I Have to Do Is Dream"
* "An American Dream"
* "Dance Little Jean"
* "Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream)"
* "I Love Only You"
* "High Horse"
* "Modern Day Romance"
* "Home Again in My Heart"
* "Partners, Brothers and Friends"
* "Fire in the Sky"
* "Baby's Got a Hold on Me"
* "Fishin' in the Dark"
* "Oh What a Love"
* "Workin' Man (Nowhere to Go)"
* "I've Been Lookin'"
* "Down That Road Tonight"
* "Turn of the Century"
* "And So It Goes"
* "When It's Gone"
* "From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)"
* "I Fought the Law"

Other songs|

* "King Tut"
* "Joe Knows How to Live"
* "Bless the Broken Road"

Related articles|

* Discography

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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