I have to agree that Richard Dashut has always done good things to those FM albums he was on, so he would be a good choice. Rob Cavallo, who appears on Say You Will should be a good choice too. Let me pick a producer out of a hat who has not yet been mentioned in this thread: Greg Penny, who worked with K.D. Lang, Paul Young and Elton John amongst others before. He's always putting the artist's tone first on his productions.
I agree that John Shanks wouldn't be a good choice, because he tends to overpolish things with ProTools. Just listen to the Joe Cocker album he produced to hear what I mean.
And I also agree that Don Was would be a great producer for Stevie, as he has been previously, on that duet with Ringo Starr on the Harry Nilsson tribute album from the mid-90s.
I must say I cannot imagine Stevie's voice harmonizing so well with Daniel Lanois' textures as Emmylou's did. Pidgeonholing a producer for one great thing he did can lead to so-so results: an example that springs to my mind is Charlie Sexton, first on Lucinda Williams' Essence and then a few years later on the equally slow-tempoed Volcano by Edie Brickell.
After all, maybe David Kahne can help FM, too?
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