Personnel: Ricky Skaggs (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, sitar, mandolin, fiddle, Cajun triangle, percussion); Sharon White (vocals); Waco Spurlock (acoustic & electric guitars, slide guitar); Mac McAnally (acoustic guitar, Wurlitzer piano); Keith Sewell, Brian Ahern (acoustic guitar); Brent Mason, John McPhee (electric guitar); Paul Franklin, Kayton Roberts (steel guitar); Jerry Douglas (dobro); Stuart Duncan, Bobby Hicks, Glen Duncan, Jim Buchannan (fiddle); Joey Miskulin (accordion); Steve Nathan (piano, B-3 organ, keyboards); Gary Smith, Glen D. Hardin (piano); Barbara Santora (organ); Billy Paye (Wurlitzer); David Hungate (acoustic & electric bass); Billy Linneman (acoustic bass); Roy Huskey Jr., Michael Rhodes, Lee Sklar (bass); Eddie Bayers, Kenny Malone, Keith Knudson (drums); John Wesley Ryles, Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, Carol Chase, Brian Ahern, Kelly Willard, Dawn Sears, Cindy Richardson-Walker (background vocals).
J.D. Sumner And The Stamps Quartet: J.D. Sumner, Ed Hill, Ed Enoch, Rick Strickland (background vocals).
Producers: Ricky Skaggs, Brian Ahern.
Recorded at Sound Emporium, Nashville, Tennessee.
Personnel: Ricky Skaggs (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, mandolin, sitar, fiddle, percussion, background vocals); Keith Sewell (guitar, acoustic guitar); Brian Ahern (acoustic guitar, background vocals); Mac McAnally (acoustic guitar); John McPhee, Brent Mason (electric guitar); Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Jerry Douglas (dobro); Stuart Duncan (fiddle); Steve Nathan (piano, keyboards); Glen D. Hardin, Gary "Bud" Smith (piano); Keith Knudson, Eddie Bayers (drums); Cindy Richardson, Dawn Sears, Eddie Hill, J.D. Sumner, John Wesley Ryles, Kelly Willard, Sharon White, Vince Gill, Robert Strickland, Carol Chase (background vocals).
Audio Mixers: Donivan Cowart; Al Schulman; Brian Ahern.
Recording information: Enactron Truck; SCruggs Sound Studio, Nashville, TN; Sixteenth Ave. Sound; Sixteenth Avenue Sound; Sound Emporium, Nashville, TN; Sound Kitchen; The Enactron Truck; The Sound Kitchen, Nashville, TN.
Introduction by: Mac McAnally.
Photographers: Charles J. Smith; Mark Tucker .
Unknown Contributor Role: Alison Krauss.
Country's most amicable music maker made a comeback with Solid Ground, his first release for Atlantic, a label not known for its country artists. From the cover of Harry Chapin's "Cat's in the Cradle" to the title track's wry drive, the album is put together well. These tunes are all pretty fair and comforting, and there is no ground more solid for an album to build upon. ~ James Chrispell minimize