Steve Buckingham (record producer)

Steve Buckingham (born Stephen Craig Buckingham) is an American record producer and musician working in Nashville, Tennessee.

Buckingham is a music producer and guitarist whose work has generated at least 20 gold and 12 platinum record albums and earned him four Grammy Awards. He has produced records by Dionne Warwick, Melissa Manchester, Ricky Van Shelton, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Dolly Parton, Alicia Bridges, Tammy Wynette, Shania Twain, Sweethearts of the Rodeo, Garth Brooks and Linda Ronstadt and many others. Buckingham has produced music for four feature films, including a Grammy win for the Muppets recording "Follow That Bird (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)" He was vice-president of A&R (artists and repertory) at Columbia Records for ten years, and Senior Vice-President of Vanguard Records and Sugar Hill Records. Later in his career, he became an adjunct instructor of Music History at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music in Nashville.