Personnel

• Tommy Shaw: all guitars, mandolins, baritone guitars
• Ted Nugent
  Ted Nugent
  Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an American guitarist, musician, singer, author, reserve police officer, and activist. From Detroit, Michigan, he originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes, before embarking on a lengthy solo career...
  
  : lead guitar on tracks 1 & 12
• Jeffery "C.J." Vanston
  C. J. Vanston
  C. J. Vanston is an American film composer, record producer, songwriter, and keyboardist, based in Hollywood, California. He was born in Denver, Colorado, the son of Bonnie L...
  
  : Hammond B-3, Wurlitzer & Fender-Rhodes electric pianos on tracks 2, 3, 8 & 10
• Kirk Helle: extremely noisy guitars & things on tracks 1, 2, 3, 7, 10 & 11; string arrangements
• Jack Blades
  Jack Blades
  Jack Martin Blades is an American musician. He has worked in several bands: Rubicon, Night Ranger , and Damn Yankees . He also recorded with Tommy Shaw under the name Shaw/Blades, and has done work alongside TMG, the Tak Matsumoto Group...
  
  : bass guitar
• John Pierce: bass guitar
• Marco Mendoza: bass guitar
• Todd Sucherman
  Todd Sucherman
  Todd Sucherman is a drummer who is best known for playing with Styx since 1996.Sucherman grew up in a musical family and followed in his father's footsteps by playing the drums. His father, Arnold J. Sucherman, was a doctor by day and a drummer by night, playing in the house band at the famed Chez...
  
  : drums
• Michael Cartellone
  Michael Cartellone
  Michael Cartellone born in 1962 is the current drummer of Lynyrd Skynyrd , and the former drummer of Damn Yankees and Accept . He is also an accomplished painter, having done so for many years. Before joining Damn Yankees, Tommy Shaw, both of Styx and Damn Yankees, recalled Michael painting...
  
  : additional drums
• Umfante': all percussion; all background vocals except on track 10
• Maxine, Julia & Oren Waters: background vocals on track 10
• Jerry Goodman: terrifying violin solo on track 2
• The 7 Deadly Zens Quartet: David Lowe, Jerry Goodman, Vivian, Oscar: strings
• Murmuring Tommyncale Choir: choral group
• Kevin Cronin
  Kevin Cronin
  Kevin Cronin is the lead vocalist/ rhythm guitarist/ occasional pianist for the American rock band, REO Speedwagon. REO Speedwagon had two #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 written by Cronin, "Keep on Loving You" and "Can't Fight This Feeling" .- Early life and career :Cronin was born in Evanston,...
  
  : duet vocal on track 7
• Alison Krauss
  Alison Krauss
  Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in...
  
  : duet vocal on track 6
• Ed Roland: middle eight vocal on track 1
• Asfoon Kia: castanets on track 11
• Keith Marks: additional engineering (guitar solos & keyboards)
• Ted Nugent
  Ted Nugent
  Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an American guitarist, musician, singer, author, reserve police officer, and activist. From Detroit, Michigan, he originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes, before embarking on a lengthy solo career...
  
  , Marina Sirtis
  Marina Sirtis
  Marina Sirtis is a British-American actress of Greek descent. She played the role of the human/Betazoid Commander Deanna Troi, ship's counselor, on the television and film series Star Trek: The Next Generation.-Life:...
  
  , Angie Dickinson
  Angie Dickinson
  Angie Dickinson is an American actress. She has appeared in more than fifty films, including Rio Bravo, Ocean's Eleven, Dressed to Kill and Pay It Forward, and starred on television as Sergeant Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson on the 1970s crime series Police Woman.-Early life:Dickinson, the second of...
  
  , Umfante': spoken words

Enhanced CD

• Quicktime videos on the making of the album, with studio footage and clips with Kevin Cronin, Alison Kraus and Ted Nugent
• photos
• song lyrics
• web links