You Can't Make Old Friends (album)

Track listing

Personnel

• Kenny Rogers – lead vocals
• Charlie Judge – acoustic piano, synthesizers, strings, keyboards
• Clayton Ivey – electric piano, Hammond B3 organ
• Gordon Mote – acoustic piano
• John Barlow Jarvis – acoustic piano, Wurlitzer, electric piano
• Warren Hartman – keyboards, string arrangements, backing vocals, percussion
• Tony Harrell – keyboards
• Jeff Taylor – accordion
• Buckwheat Zydeco – accordion
• John Hobbs – keyboards
• J. T. Corenflos – electric guitar
• Dann Huff – electric guitar
• Ilya Toshinsky – acoustic guitar
• Pat Buchanan – electric guitar
• Brent Mason – electric guitar
• John Willis – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar, mandolin, banjo
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• Dan Dugmore – steel guitar
• Russ Pahl – steel guitar
• Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass
• Michael Rhodes – bass
• Viktor Krauss – bass
• Mike Brignardello – bass
• Greg Morrow – drums
• Steve Brewster – drums
• Eric Darken – percussion
• Larry Hall – strings, string arrangements
• Jim Horn – tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, horn arrangements
• Dolly Parton – guest vocals
• Russell Terrell – backing vocals
• Perry Coleman – backing vocals
• Vicki Hampton – backing vocals
• Tania Hancheroff – backing vocals
• Cindy Walker Richardson – backing vocals
• Eric Paslay – backing vocals
• Robert Bailey – backing vocals
• Jason Eskridge – backing vocals
• Steve Glassmeyer – backing vocals
• Jordan Lehning – backing vocals
• Michael Mishaw – backing vocals
• Gene Sisk – backing vocals
• Will Robinson – Spanish language
• Troy Johnson – backing vocals
• Wes Hightower – backing vocals

  Production

• Producer – Dann Huff
• Engineer – Todd Tidwell
• Additional Engineer – Russell Terrell
• Assistant Engineers – Shawn Daugherty, Mike Lancaster and Seth Morton.
• Recorded at Starstruck Studios.
• Additional Engineering at RTBGV.
• Kenny Rogers' vocals recorded by Steve Marcantonio at Starstruck Studios, Blackbird Studio and Doppler Studios.
• Mixed by Steve Marcantonio at Blackbird Studio.
• Digital Editing by Sean Neff

• Producers – Warren Hartman and Kyle Lehning
• Basic Track Arrangements – Warren Hartman
• Engineer – Steve Marcantonio
• Assistant Engineers – Justin Francis and Mike Spezia
• Recorded at Ocean Way Recording and Sound Stage.
• Additional overdubs engineered by Ryan Carr, Jordan Lehning and Kevin Sokolnicki
• Additional overdubs recorded and edited at The Compound.
• Accordion overdubs on Track 7 recorded by Tony Daigle at Dockside Studio.
• Kenny Rogers' vocals engineered by Jordan Lehning at Blackbird Studio, Sound Stage and The Compound.
• Mixed by Kyle Lehning at Blackbird Studio

• Mastered by Eric Boulanger and Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab.
• A&R Direction – Jason Henke, Cris Lacy and Rebekah Sterk.
• Production Coordination – Mike "Frog" Griffith
• Art Direction – Katherine Petillo
• Design – Sally Carnes Gulde
• Creative Director – Shane Tarleton
• Photography – Piper Ferguson and Thomas Petillo
• Booking – Greg Oswald at WME Entertainment.
• Management – Bob Burwell, Jason Henke and Ken Levitan at Vector Management.
• Business Management – Kevin Dalton and Dwight Wiles at Smith Wiles & Co.

  Chart performance

Album

Singles

Cover version of title track