Spécificités
The Doobie Brothers
Tom Johnston guitars, lead and backing vocals
Patrick Simmons guitars, lead and backing vocals
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter guitars, pedal steel guitar
Tiran Porter bass guitar, backing vocals
John Hartman drums, percussion
Keith Knudsen drums, percussion, backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "Double Dealin' Four Flusher"
Additional musicians
Bill Payne piano on "Sweet Maxine", "Neal's Fandango", "Texas Lullaby", "Take Me in Your Arms", "I Cheat the Hangman" and "Double Dealin' Four Flusher", organ on "Music Man" and "I Been Workin' on You", electric piano on "Double Dealin' Four Flusher", other keyboards
Ry Cooder bottleneck guitar on "Rainy Day Crossroad Blues"
Karl Himmel drums and percussion on "I Been Workin' on You"
Bobbye Hall Porter congas on "Take Me in Your Arms"
Victor Feldman marimba, percussion
Conte Candoli, Pete Candoli trumpets on "I Cheat the Hangman"
Harry Bluestone concertmaster on "Rainy Day Crossroad Blues"
Maria Muldaur backing vocals on "I Cheat the Hangman"
Sherlie Matthews, Venetta Fields and Jessica Smith backing vocals on "Take Me in Your Arms" and "I Been Workin' on You"
Nick DeCaro string arrangements on "Texas Lullaby", "I Cheat the Hangman" and "Rainy Day Crossroad Blues"
Paul Riser string and horn arrangements on "Take Me in Your Arms", horn arrangements on "Sweet Maxine" and "Double Dealin' Four Flusher"
Curtis Mayfield string and horn arrangements on "Music Man"
Richard Tufo orchestration on "Music Man"
Production
Ted Templeman producer, additional percussion
Donn Landee, Travis Turk engineers
Barbara Casado, John Casado design
Jill Maggid, Michael Maggid photography
Ed Thrasher art direction