| Shawn Colvin | Primary Artist, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Background Vocals, Multi Instruments |
| Bruce Hornsby | Piano |
| Suzanne Vega | Background Vocals |
| Bob Telson | Hammond Organ |
| Lucy Kaplansky | Background Vocals |
| Steve Addabbo | Tambourine |
| Michael Blair | Percussion, Drums, Multi Instruments |
| Steve Gaboury | Keyboards |
| John Leventhal | Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Mandolin, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Tambourine, Background Vocals, Multi Instruments, 6-string bass |
| Rick Marotta | Drums |
| Hugh McCracken | Acoustic Guitar, Dobro, Hi String |
| Dennis McDermott | Drums, Tom-Tom, Multi Instruments, Hi Hat |
| Bob Riley | Electric Guitar, Keyboards |
| Soozie Tyrell | Fiddle, Background Vocals |
| Charles Curtis | Cello |
| Lucy Kaplanski | Background Vocals |
| T-Bone Wolk | Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Accordion, Multi Instruments |
| Shawn Colvin | Producer, drum programming |
| David Sanborn | Contributor, Assistant Arranger, Arrangement Collaboration |
| Steve Addabbo | Producer, Engineer |
| Michael Blair | Contributor |
| Ronald K. Fierstein | Executive Producer |
| Steve Gaboury | drum programming, Sound Design |
| Phil Galdston | Contributor, Assistant Arranger |
| Kevin Halpin | Engineer |
| Geoff Keehn | Engineer |
| John Leventhal | Producer, drum programming |
| Bob Ludwig | Mastering |
| Mark Partis | Engineer |
| Malcolm Pollack | Engineer |
| Bob Riley | Producer, drum programming |
| Ted Spencer | Engineer |
| Phil Galston | Arrangement Collaboration |
| Carol Chen | Art Direction |
| T-Bone Wolk | Assistant Arranger |
| Kevin Killan | Engineer |
Anonymous
Posted October 1, 2010
Shawn Colvin is perhaps the finest female singer-songwriter in the world...she is certainly the best of her generation. This is the album that established Colvin and with good reason. Every song is perfect...the writing, the arrangements and (of course) the vocals. This is a "must have" for any record collection and is my all-time favorite album.
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Editorial Reviews
All Music Guide - Kelly McCartney
Sonically, Steady On is a triumph, with its emotional intimacy captured with smooth precision. Vocally, Colvin's tender, sometimes whisper-like performances are astonishing and haunting, provocative and seductive all at once. Then there are the songs that flow so effortlessly into one another that to remove even one would seemingly upset the entire balance of the cosmos as we know it. The sly Colvin adeptly plays with words, beats, phrasing, and rhymes, focusing not just on the meaning, but also the feel and rhythm of the lyrics to great effect. Having once claimed that she tends to write about the "positive side of the painful experience," this album proves her point, ...