Ed Brady – guitar (side two: tracks 1 and 2)
Malcolm Cecil – engineering, mixing, production, production assistance
Carl Cornwell – flute, saxophone (side two: tracks 1 and 2)
Donn Davenport – art direction
John Ford – cover photo
Gordon Goodwin – horns
Marlo Henderson – guitar (side one: tracks 1, 2, 4; side two: track 4)
Brian Jackson – acoustic piano, arrangements, backing vocals (side one: track 1), drums (side one: track 1), electric piano, kettle drums (side two: track 3), keyboard bass, production, synthesizer, TONTO synthesizer (side two: track 3)
Ron Kellum – art direction
Harvey Mason – drums (side one: tracks 2 to 4; side two: tracks 1 to 4)
Marti McCall – backing vocals
Gil Scott-Heron – production, vocals
Denis Sirias – horns
Julia Waters – backing vocals
Maxine Waters Waddell – backing vocals
Bill Watrous – horns