Personnel

• Andrew Bird

• Haley Bonar
  Haley Bonar
  Haley Bonar is an American alternative country singer-songwriter who hails from South Dakota. She has lived in Duluth and St. Paul, Minnesota. In July 2009, she moved to Portland, Oregon, where she spent a year writing songs for her newest album Golder, which is to be released April 19, 2011...
  
   – Vocals (tracks 1, 9–11)
• Jon Davis – Bass clarinet (track 7)
• Martin Dosh
  Dosh
  Martin Luther King Chavez Dosh , known in music as Dosh, is a musician and multi-instrumentalist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As an artist, Dosh is a percussionist uses various electronics, often with a Fender Rhodes...
  
   – Drums, electric piano (Rhodes
  Rhodes piano
  The Rhodes piano is an electro-mechanical piano, invented by Harold Rhodes during the fifties and later manufactured in a number of models, first in collaboration with Fender and after 1965 by CBS....
  
  , Wurlitzer
  Wurlitzer electric piano
  Wurlitzer 200A|250px|thumbThe Wurlitzer electric piano was one of a series of electromechanical stringless pianos manufactured and marketed by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, Corinth, Mississippi, U.S. and Tonawanda, New York...
  
  ), other sounds
• Ben Durrant – Guitar (tracks 1, 6)
• Chris Morrissey
  Chris Morrissey (musician)
  Chris Morrissey is a musician currently living in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. Chris plays the bass. Chris currently plays with and has recorded with a number of bands:* Mason Jennings* Haley Bonar* Bill Mike Band* Tarlton...
  
   – Bass (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 11)
• Kevin O'Donnell – Drums (track 4)
• Jeremy Ylvisaker
  Jeremy Ylvisaker
  Jeremy Ylvisaker is a Minneapolis-based musician. Ylvisaker fronts the band Alpha Consumer. He plays guitar in Andrew Bird's touring band band alongside fellow Minnesotans Dosh and Alpha Consumer bassist Mike Lewis....
  
   – Guitar (track 10)

Technical personnel

• David Boucher – Mixing (tracks 5, 6)
• Ben Durrant – Co-producer; mixing at Pachyderm Studios, Cannon Falls, MN (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7–10, 12); recording at Crazy Beast Studio, Northeast Minneapolis (tracks 1, 2, 6–10, 12; vocals and guitars for tracks 4, 5)
• Dan Dietrich – Recording of additional tracks at Wall2Wall Recording, Chicago (tracks 4, 10)
• Martin Dosh – Additional recording (track 7)
• Tom Herbers – Mixing at Third Ear Recording, Minneapolis (tracks 3, 11); recording at Third Ear (tracks 3, 5, 11)
• Gregg Norman – Recording of basic tracks at Electrical Audio
  Electrical Audio
  Electrical Audio is a recording facility founded in Chicago, Illinois by musician and recording engineer Steve Albini in 1997. Hundreds of independent music projects have been recorded there....
  
  , Chicago (track 4)
• Roger Seibel – Mastering at SAE Mastering, Phoenix
• Brent Sigmeth – Mixing at Pachyderm Studios (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7–10, 12)

• Quemadura
  Jeff Clark (poet)
  Jeff Clark is an American poet and book designer.-Biography:Clark grew up in southern California. He studied at UC Davis and completed a Master of Fine Arts in poetry at the Iowa Writer's Workshop. At Davis, Clark drummed for the band Buick, whose album Sweatertongue was released by Lather...
  
  – Artwork and design
• Lynne Roberts-Goodwin – Photography (of birds)
• Cameron Wittig – Photography (of Andrew Bird)