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Track listing

1. "What Do You Want the Boy to Do?" (Allen Toussaint
   Allen Toussaint
   
   File:AllenToussaintFeb07.jpgAllen Toussaint, , is an United States musician, songwriter and record producer.One of the most influential figures in New Orleans R&B, many of Toussaint's songs have become familiar through their numerous cover versions, including "Working in the Coalmine", "Ride Your Pony", "Brickyard Blues", "Get Out Of My L...
   ) – 3:19
2. "Good Enough" (John Hall, Johanna Hall) – 2:56
3. "Run Like a Thief" (J.D. Souther) – 3:02
4. "Fool Yourself" (Fred Tackett
   Fred Tackett
   
   Fred Tackett, a native of the U.S. state of Arkansas, is a guitarist, mandolinist and trumpeter with the band Little Feat.In addition to his work with the Little Feat, Tackett has played and recorded with many notable artists....
   ) – 3:04
5. "My First Night Alone Without You" (Kin Vassy
   Kin Vassy
   
   Kin Vassy was a singer-songwriter who in addition to his solo recordings also recorded with other artists, most notably Kenny Rogers, Frank Zappa and Elvis Presley....
   ) – 3:07
6. "Walk Out the Front Door" (Mark T. Jordan, Rip Stock) – 3:09
7. "Sugar Mama" (Glen Clark) – 3:45
8. "Pleasin' Each Other" (Bill Payne
   Bill Payne
   
   Bill Payne is a founding member of critically acclaimed United States rock and roll band , Little Feat. He is considered to be one of the finest American piano rock and blues musicians by many other piano rock musicians, including Sir Elton John....
   , Fran Tate) – 3:44
9. "I'm Blowin' Away" (Eric Kaz
   Eric Kaz
   
   Eric Kaz, born in Brooklyn, New York in 1947, is a singer-songwriter active mainly in the late 1960s and the 1970's....
   ) – 3:25
10. "Your Sweet and Shiny Eyes" (O'Bryne, O'Byrne) – 2:47

Personnel

• Bonnie Raitt - guitar
  Guitar
  
  The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
  , electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  
  An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickup to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into an electrical current, which is made louder with an instrument amplifier and a speaker....
  , vocals
  Singing
  
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
  , slide guitar
  Slide guitar
  
  Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide is in reference to the sliding motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides, which were the necks of glass bottles....
  
• Harry Bluestone - concert master
• George Bohannon - trombone
  Trombone
  
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass instrument family. Like all brass instruments, it is a lip-reed aerophone: sound is produced when the player?s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate....
  , baritone saxophone
  Baritone saxophone
  
  The baritone saxophone, often called "bari sax" , is one of the larger and lower pitched members of the saxophone family. It was invented by Adolphe Sax....
  , bass trumpet
  Bass trumpet
  
  The bass trumpet is a type of low trumpet which was first developed during the 1820s in Germany. It is usually pitched in 8' C or 9' B today, but is sometimes built in E and is treated as a transposing instrument sounding either an octave, a sixth or a ninth lower than written, depending on the pitch of the instrument....
  
• Jackson Browne
  Jackson Browne
  
  Clyde Jackson Browne is an American rock music singer-songwriter and musician. His introspective lyrics made him the poster boy of the Southern California confessional singer-songwriter movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s....
   - vocals, background vocals
• Rosemary Butler
  Rosemary Butler
  
  Rosemary Butler began her career playing bass and singing in the heavy rock band Birtha who released 2 albums for Dunhill. After they split in 1973 she became a popular back-up singer in the late 70's and early 80's....
   - vocals, background vocals
• Venetta Fields
  Venetta Fields
  
  Venetta Fields is an United States singer best known as session musician for leading rock and pop acts of the 1970s including Pink Floyd, Barbra Streisand, Steely Dan and the Rolling Stones....
   - vocals, background vocals
• Freebo
  Freebo
  
  Freebo is a bass and tuba player, guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer noted primarily for his work with Bonnie Raitt. He is also a respected session musician who has recorded and performed with Ringo Starr, John Hall , Aaron Neville, Dr....
   - bass
  Bass guitar
  
  The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
  , guitar, tuba
  Tuba
  
  The tuba is the largest and lowest pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped Mouthpiece ....
  , vocals, guitarron
  Guitarrón
  
  The guitarr?n is a very large, deep-bodied Mexican 6-string acoustic bass played in mariachi bands. Although obviously similar to the guitar, it is not a derivative of that instrument, but was independently developed from the sixteenth-century Spanish bajo de u?a....
  , fretless bass
• Jim Gordon - baritone saxophone
• Debbie Greene - vocals, background vocals
• John Kingsley Hall - guitar, electric guitar
• Emmylou Harris
  Emmylou Harris
  
  Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists....
   - vocals, background vocals
• John Herald
  John Herald
  
  John Herald was an American folk music and Bluegrass music songwriter, solo and studio musician, and one-time member of The Greenbriar Boys trio....
   - vocals, background vocals
• Dick Hyde - trombone, trumpet
  Trumpet
  
  The trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest Register in the brass instrument family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC....
  , bass trumpet
• Richard Hyde - horn
• Jerry Jumonville - tenor saxophone
  Tenor saxophone
  
  The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the Alto saxophone, is the most common size of saxophone....
  
• Jeff Labes - keyboard
  Keyboard instrument
  
  A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organ s as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic musical instrument....
  
• Maxayn Lewis - vocals, background vocals
• Gary Mallaber
  Gary Mallaber
  
  Gary Mallaber is a Los Angeles session musician drummer, percussionist and singer. He got his start playing drums in a band from Buffalo, New York, known as Raven ....
   - drums
  Drum kit
  
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
  
• Will McFarlane - guitar, electric guitar
• Robbie Montgomery - vocals, background vocals
• Bill Payne
  Bill Payne
  
  Bill Payne is a founding member of critically acclaimed United States rock and roll band , Little Feat. He is considered to be one of the finest American piano rock and blues musicians by many other piano rock musicians, including Sir Elton John....
   - accordion
  Accordion
  
  The accordion is a portable box-shaped musical instrument of the hand-held bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox....
  , keyboard, vocals
• Jeff Porcaro
  Jeff Porcaro
  
  Jeffrey Thomas Porcaro was a highly regarded Session musician drummer and a founding member of the Grammy Award winning band Toto . While already an established studio player in the 1970's, he shot to national prominence as the drummer on the Steely Dan album titled Katy Lied, one of the few Steely Dan albums on which the same drummer played...
   - percussion
  Percussion instrument
  
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration....
  
• Joe Porcaro
  Joe Porcaro
  
  Joseph Porcaro is an United States Jazz drumming, percussionist and educator.His three sons were all musicians in the band Toto : keyboardist Steve Porcaro, bassist Mike Porcaro and late drummer Jeff Porcaro....
   - percussion
• Greg Prestopino - vocals, background vocals
• Terry Reid
  Terry Reid
  
  Terry Reid is a Rock music singer and guitarist.After leaving school at the age of 15, Reid joined Peter Jay's Jaywalkers after being spotted by the band's drummer, Peter Jay....
   - vocals, background vocals
• John Sebastian
  John Sebastian
  
  John Sebastian is an United States songwriter and harmonica player. He is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....
   - autoharp
  Autoharp
  
  The Autoharp is a registered trademark for a musical stringed instrument having a series of chord bars attached to dampers which, when depressed, mute all the strings other than those that form the desired chord ....
  , harp
• William D. "Smitty" Smith - piano
  Piano
  
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
  , keyboard
• J.D. Souther - vocals, background vocals
• Fred Tackett
  Fred Tackett
  
  Fred Tackett, a native of the U.S. state of Arkansas, is a guitarist, mandolinist and trumpeter with the band Little Feat.In addition to his work with the Little Feat, Tackett has played and recorded with many notable artists....
   - synthesizer
  Synthesizer
  
  A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing a variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequency....
  , acoustic guitar, guitar, mandolin
  Mandolin
  
  A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It is descended from the Mandora, a soprano member of the lute family. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundboard, or one which is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes which are open and are not decorated with an intricately carved grille lik...
  , keyboard, 12 string guitar, Fender Rhodes
• Willow VanDer Hoek - vocals, background vocals
• Tom Waits
  Tom Waits
  
  Thomas Alan Waits is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of Bourbon whiskey, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorpo...
   - vocals, background vocals
• Dennis Whitted - drums
  Drum kit
  
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
  
• Jai Winding - piano, keyboard, clavinet
  Clavinet
  
  Not to be confused with clarinetA Clavinet is an electrophone keyboard instrument manufactured by the Hohner company. It is essentially an electronically amplified clavichord, analogous to an electric guitar....
  

Production

• Producer: Paul Rothchild
• Engineer: Fritz Richmond
• Remastering supervisor: Ed Cherney
• Remastering: Gregg Geller
• Project coordinator: Jo Motta
• Horn arrangements: Nick DeCaro, Jerry Jumonville, Bill Payne, Fred Tackett
• String arrangements: Nick DeCaro
• Art direction: Lockart
• Photography: Michael Dobo, Norman Seeff
• Cover photo: Norman Seeff

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