sentence: personnel boz scaggs - vocals , various instruments michael omartian - various instruments fred tackett - acoustic & electric guitars ricky fataar - accordion , organ , keyboards , synthesizer , drums , percussion austin de lone , barry beckett - acoustic piano kevin bents - electric piano william '' smitty '' smith , booker t. jones - organ james '' hutch '' hutchinson , nathan east , neil stubenhaus - bass michael rodriguez - programming engineers : dan garcia , paul mckenna , michael rodriguez .