Fat City (Shawn Colvin album)

In an interview with Performing Songwriter magazine, Colvin described how she co-wrote songs for Fat City:[6]

The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music. Like on "Round of Blues" I wrote the whole song but Larry Klein said that it needed a bridge. So he wrote the bridge and I wrote the words to it. But Elly and I really shared every part of ["Set the Prairie on Fire"] equally. She wrote some of the words, I wrote some of the words, she wrote some of the music, I wrote some of the music.

• Shawn Colvin – guitar, vocals
• Bruce Hornsby – piano, background vocals
• David Lindley – Hawaiian guitar, bazouki, lap steel Guitar
• Joni Mitchell – percussion
• The Subdudes – vocals
• Richard Thompson – guitar
• Chris Whitley – National Steel guitar (8)
• Tommy Malone – guitar, background vocals
• Valerie Carter – background vocals
• Jim Keltner – drums
• Alex Acuña – percussion
• Steve Amedee – drums, background vocals
• Robin Batteau – background vocals
• Larry Campbell – fiddle, pedal steel
• Mary Chapin Carpenter – background vocals
• Vinnie Colaiuta – drums
• Denny Fongheiser – drums
• Béla Fleck – banjo
• Milt Grayson – background vocals
• Richie Hayward – drum brushes
• Curtis King – background vocals
• Larry Klein – bass, percussion, guitar, keyboards, drum programming
• Greg Leisz – pedal steel
• John Leventhal – guitar, bass, percussion
• John Magnie – accordion, background vocals
• Bill Payne – organ
• Jeff Pevar – guitar
• Steuart Smith – guitar
• Fonzi Thornton – background vocals
• Ken White – keyboards, background vocals
• Vinnie Zummo – guitar
• Johnny Ray Allen – bass
• Booker T. Jones – Hammond organ