Musicians Source: •
Leon Redbone –
vocals,
guitar, throat tromnet, background
whistling on "Crazy Blues" • Jack Noseworthy –
pan flute •
Milt Hinton –
double bass •
Jo Jones –
drums • Bob Greene –
piano •
Don McLean –
banjo on "Mississippi Delta Blues" •
Eric Weissberg – banjo on "Shine On Harvest Moon" • Dominic Cortese –
accordion • Jonathan Dorn –
tuba •
Yusef Lateef –
soprano saxophone on "Mississippi River Blues" • Ed Polcer –
trumpet • Ed Barefield –
clarinet •
Vic Dickenson –
trombone • Dick Rath – trombone •
Joe Wilder – trumpet on "Nobody's Sweetheart" •
Kermit Moore –
cello • Selwart Clarke –
viola • Lewis Elgy –
violin • Sanford Allen – violin • Captain Billy's Whiz Bang (William Kruse, Frederick Mount III, Andrew Smith, Mark S. Bentley) –
backing vocals on "Shine On Harvest Moon" •
The Dixie Hummingbirds (Ira Tucker Sr., James Walker, James Davis, Beachy Thompson) – backing vocals on "If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven" • Jerry Teifer – background whistling on "Shine On Harvest Moon" • Beachy Thompson – background whistling on "If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven" •
Al Cohn –
horn arrangements on "Crazy Blues", "Mr. Jelly Roll Baker" and "Diddy Wah Diddy" • William S. Fischer –
string arrangements on "Mississippi Delta Blues", "Melancholy Baby" and "Shine On Harvest Moon"
Technical •
Joel Dorn –
producer •
Hal Willner – associate producer • Bob Liftin – recording and remix
engineer • Vince McGarry – additional recording and mastering engineer • Neil Brody – additional recording engineer • Benno Friedman – backliner photo • Michael Horen and Leon Redbone – cover art ==Charts==