With Soulive, every track they've ever recorded seriously grooves, thus Steady Groovin is a retrospective of select funky moments. Of note are tracks featuring special guests Fred Wesley (of James Brown fame) and Black Thought of The Roots. Soulive is an album by Soulive that was released on April 8, 2003. It was produced by Jeff Krasno. Following the release of the studio album Next, the band decided to record their 2002 winter tour, and this album is a compilation of live recordings recorded from October 12 to December 7, 2002.