Willy DeVille - vocals, guitar, slide guitar, background vocals
Alex Acuña - castanets, maracas, clapstick, timbales, cajón, shaker, cowbell, güiro, tambourine stick
Diego "La Empanada" Arellano - guitarrón (“Come a Little Bit Closer”)
Martin "Baby Face" Arellano - guitar, vihuela (“Come a Little Bit Closer”)
Nina DeVille - background vocals

Quetzal Flores - bass, bajo muta, jarana, jawbone
Lenin García – guitar, arrangements (“Come a Little Bit Closer”)
César Augusto Castro González - Leona
Martha González – cajón, tarima
Hook Herrera - harmonica
David Hidalgo - accordion, bajo sexto
David Keyes - bass, double bass, background vocals
Martin “El Animas” Lara – trumpet (“Come a Little Bit Closer”)
J. Mario “El Mono” Rodriguez – violin (“Come a Little Bit Closer”)
John Philip Shenale - synthesizer, percussion, piano, strings, Hammond A11 organ, Chamberlin, ARP String Ensemble, Wurlitzer Sideman, Wurlitzer E piano, Marxophone, loops, samplers
Josh Sklair - guitar, twelve string guitar, Gibson 125 pedal steel guitar, energy bow, Fender Telecaster, Trussart “gator”
Michael Starr - mandolin, strumstick, violin
Steve Stevens - drums ("Muddy Waters Rose Out of the Mississippi Mud")
The Valentine Brothers - background vocals
Billy Valentine
John Valentine
Joey Waronker – drums, coin drum