Bob Glaub – bass guitar on "Roland the Headless Gunner", "Excitable Boy" and "Nighttime in the Switching Yard". Souther and Waddy Wachtel) – backing and harmony vocals The Gentlemen Boys (Jackson Browne, Jorge Calderón, Kenny Edwards, J. Mick Fleetwood – drums on "Werewolves of London". John McVie - bass on "Werewolves of London". Kenny Edwards – bass guitar on "Veracruz", "Tenderness on the Block" and "Lawyers, Guns and Money". Jackson Browne – guitar, harmony and backing vocals. Karla Bonoff – harmony vocals on "Accidentally Like a Martyr". Jorge Calderón – harmony and backing vocals, Spanish vocals on "Veracruz". 
Warren Zevon – lead, harmony and backing vocals, piano, organ, synthesizer. "Werewolves of London" (Alternate version) After all, is she going to cover the one about the headless gunner? Track listing But no one has yet been able to explain to me what 'accidentally like a martyr' might mean-answers dependent on the term ' Dylanesque' are not acceptable-and I have no doubt that that's the image Linda will home in on. The four that exorcise male psychoses by mock celebration are positively addictive, the two uncomplicated rockers do the job, and two of the purely 'serious' songs get by. The further these songs get from Ronstadtland, the more I like them. Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: In addition, there are two ballads about life and relationships ("Accidentally Like a Martyr" and "Tenderness on the Block"), as well as the funk/ disco-inspired "Nighttime in the Switching Yard". " Lawyers, Guns and Money" is a tongue-in-cheek tale of a young American man's adventures in Cold War-era Latin America. Likewise, " Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" is a fictionalized account of former mercenary David Lindell's experiences in Africa. 
It was the first song Zevon wrote with Jorge Calderón. The historical "Veracruz" dramatizes the United States occupation of Veracruz.
"Excitable Boy" and "Werewolves of London" were considered macabrely humorous by some critics.
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