acoustic guitar, electric guitar, resonator guitar James Burton
backing vocals Billy Mize
backing vocals Bonnie Owens
bass guitar Bob Morris
bass guitar Jerry Ward
bass guitar Roy Huskey
drums Roy Edward Burris
guitar Lewis Talley
guitar, harmonica Roy Nichols
lead vocals, guitar Merle Haggard
narrator Hugh Cherry
piano George French, Jr.
producer Ken Nelson
sleeve notes Hugh Cherry
steel guitar, resonator guitar Norman Hamlet