Nothin' but Good

Giving it 3 out of 5 stars, Jim Ridley of New Country magazine thought that the album's production was "straight down the middle of a pop-country road" and "still fails to register Sears' own personality strongly", but thought that her performances on "Runaway Train", "Uh Oh", and "Planet of Love" were solid. He added that she "sings most movingly" on "Little Orphan Annie", a song written in tribute to her parents.[2]

Jonathan Pappalardo of My Kind of Country gives this album an "A" and writes, "There are moments of sheer brilliance on Nothin’ But Good that show why Sears was one of the best and most criminally underrated female artists to fly under the radar in the 1990s. Some of the uptempo material is aimed at commercial viability and is, therefore, filler, but the vast majority of the album is beyond excellent."[1]

Compiled from liner notes.[3]

Musicians

• Mike Brignardello — bass guitar
• Mark Casstevens — acoustic guitar
• Stuart Duncan — fiddle
• Pat Flynn — acoustic guitar
• Paul Franklin — steel guitar
• Rob Hajacos — fiddle
• Owen Hale — drums
• John Hughey — steel guitar
• B. James Lowry — acoustic guitar
• Nashville String Machine — strings
• Steve Nathan — keyboards
• Russ Pahl — steel guitar
• Brent Rowan — electric guitar, gut string guitar
• Dawn Sears — lead vocals
• Kenny Sears — fiddle
• Biff Watson — acoustic guitar
• Willie Weeks — bass guitar

Backing vocalists

• Dana McVicker — on "Nothin' but Good"
• Vince Gill — on "If I Didn't Have You in My World"
• Jana King
• Mary Ann Kennedy and Pam Rose — on "Runaway Train"
• Patty Loveless — on "Close Up the Honky Tonks"
• Jonell Mosser — on "If I Didn't Have You in My World"
• Dawn Sears
• Lisa Silver
• Cindy Richardson-Walker
• Bergen White
• Jeff White

Technical

• Robert Charles — engineering, overdubs
• Carl Gorodetzky — concert master
• Mark Hagen — engineering
• Warren Peterson — recording, overdubs
• Lynn Peterzell — mixing
• Denny Purcell — mastering
• Bergen White — string arrangements, conductor
• Mark Wright — production