Hearts on the Line

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Hearts on the Line

Studio album by The Flying Burrito Brothers
Released	January 1981
Genre	Country rock
Label	Curb Records
Producer(s)	Michael Lloyd
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The Flying Burrito Brothers chronology
Live from Tokyo (1979)	Hearts on the Line (1981)	Sunset Sundown (1982)

Hearts on the Line is an album by the country rock group The Flying Burrito Brothers, released in 1981.

After the Flying Burrito Brothers scored a minor country hit in 1979 with a live cover of Merle Haggard's "White Line Fever", the band was hit yet again with personnel changes. By 1980, Greg Harris and Ed Ponder had left the group, leaving the Burritos as a trio of "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow, Gib Guilbeau and Skip Battin. In addition to commitments with the Flying Burrito Brothers, Gib Guilbeau was also working as a songwriter for Criterion Music with John Beland, who Guilbeau knew from his time in the band Swampwater. Guilbeau and Beland wrote some songs and ultimately, Beland was invited to join the Burritos. The band decided to go a more commercial direction to try and capitalize on the small success of "White Line Fever". In addition, the band's name was shortened to simply The Burrito Brothers. Some demos were recorded which got the band a deal with Curb Records and by December 1980, the band's first single for Curb, "She's a Friend of a Friend" reached the US country top 70. Hearts on the Line followed in January 1981 and spawned two further singles, both of which made the US country top 20, "Does She Wish She Was Single Again?" and "She Belongs to Everyone But Me".