I Feel Alright
1996 studio album by Steve Earle
I Feel Alright | ||||
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Studio album by Steve Earle | ||||
Released | March 5, 1996 | |||
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Length | 38:57 | |||
Label | E-Squared Records | |||
Producer | Ray Kennedy and Richard Bennett (tracks: 1, 5, 8 to 12), Richard Dodd (tracks: 2 to 4, 6 and 7) | |||
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I Feel Alright is the sixth studio album by Steve Earle, released in 1996.
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Critical reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Christgau's Consumer Guide | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Entertainment Weekly | A[2] |
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The New Rolling Stone Album Guide | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Spin | 9/10[7] |
Writing for Entertainment Weekly, Alanna Nash gave I Feel Alright an "A" grade. She wrote, "If I Feel Alright doesn’t deliver the grit that has been Earle’s gift to rock and country, his roots-rock joie de vivre sends no apologies, only a healthy message for the ’90s: Don’t feel bad about feeling good."[2]
Accolades
Organization/Publication | Year | Accolade | Position | Reference |
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Eye Weekly (Canada) | 1996 | "Albums of the year" | 8 | [8] |
Guitar Player (USA) | 1997 | "Best Country Guitar album" | 3 | [9] |
Nashville Music Awards (USA) | 1997 | best rock album | * | [10] |
Spin (USA) | 1999 | "Top 90 Albums of the 90s" | 75 | [11] |
Track listing
All tracks are written by Steve Earle
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Feel Alright" | 3:04 |
2. | "Hard-Core Troubadour" | 2:41 |
3. | "More Than I Can Do" | 2:37 |
4. | "Hurtin' Me, Hurtin' You" | 3:21 |
5. | "Now She's Gone" | 2:48 |
6. | "Poor Boy" | 2:55 |
7. | "Valentine's Day" | 2:59 |
8. | "The Unrepentant" | 4:31 |
9. | "CCKMP" | 4:30 |
10. | "Billy and Bonnie" | 3:39 |
11. | "South Nashville Blues" | 2:28 |
12. | "You're Still Standin' There" | 3:24 |
Total length: | 38:57 |
Personnel
Musicians
- Steve Earle — guitars, harmonica, vocals
- Richard Bennett, Ray Kennedy - guitar
- Kelly Looney, Garry Tallent, Roy Huskey, Jr., Ric Kipp - bass
- Kurt Custer, Greg Morrow - drums
- Ken Moore - organ
- Richard Bennett - harmonium
- Lucinda Williams - vocals on "You're Still Standin' There"
- Kurt Custer, Richard Bennett, Greg Morrow, Dub Cornett - percussion
- Custer & Logan, The Fairfield Four (musical director: Mark Prentice), Lucinda Williams, Ms. Williams' stunt double Siobhan Maher - vocals
- Kris Wilkerson - string arrangement and conductor
- Carl Gordetzky, Pamela Sixfin, Richard Grosjean - violin
- Lee Larrison - viola
- Robert Mason - cello
Cover Art
- Album Artwork - Tony Fitzpatrick
Production
Ray Kennedy and Richard Bennett (tracks: 1, 5, 8 to 12), Richard Dodd (tracks: 2 to 4, 6 and 7)
Releases
year | format | label | catalog # |
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1996 | CD | Warner Bros. Records | 46201 |
1996 | cassette | Warner Bros. Records | 46201 |
1996 | CD | Transatlantic | 227 |
Charts
year | chart | peak |
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1996 | The Billboard 200 | 106 |
Notes and sources
- ^ a b c Kurt Wolf, Review: I Feel Alright", Allmusic
- ^ a b c Nash, Alanna (1996-03-08). "I Feel Alright". Entertainment Weekly.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (2000-10-15). Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishing. p. 92. ISBN 9780312245603.
- ^ Appleford, Steve (1996-03-09). "Album Reviews: Earle's Back With New Ease, Naturalness on 'Alright'". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2017-12-25.
- ^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. p. 268. ISBN 9780743201698.
- ^ McLeese, Don (1998-02-02). "Steve Earle: I Feel Alright". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2007-04-01. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
- ^ Aaron, Charles (April 1996). "Steve Earle: I Feel Alright". Spin. SPIN Media LLC. p. 105. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
- ^ Eye Weekly (Canadian cross-country critics poll), 1996
- ^ "27th Annual Guitar Player Readers Poll", Guitar Player, 31:2, February 1997, p. 40-41 (tie for 3rd place w/ Dwight Yoakam's Gone, behind Junior Brown's Semi Crazy, and Steve Wariner's No More Mr. Nice Guy)
- ^ Deborah Evans Price, "Nashville Awards Celebrate More Than Just Country", Billboard, 109:8, February 22, 1997, p. 26,28
- ^ "Spin's Top 90 Albums of the 90's"
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- Guitar Town
- Exit 0
- Copperhead Road
- The Hard Way
- Train a Comin'
- I Feel Alright
- El Corazón
- The Mountain (with the Del McCoury Band)
- Transcendental Blues
- Jerusalem
- The Revolution Starts Now
- Washington Square Serenade
- Townes
- I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
- The Low Highway
- Terraplane
- Colvin & Earle (with Shawn Colvin)
- Ghosts of West Virginia
- J.T.
- Jerry Jeff
- Early Tracks
- Essential Steve Earle
- Ain't Ever Satisfied: The Steve Earle Collection
- The Devil's Right Hand: An Introduction to Steve Earle
- Sidetracks
- 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Steve Earle
- Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator
- BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
- Together at the Bluebird Café (with Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt)
- Just an American Boy
- Live from Austin, TX
- Live at Montreux 2005
- "What'll You Do About Me"
- "A Little Bit in Love"
- "Hillbilly Highway"
- "Guitar Town"
- "Someday"
- "Goodbye's All We've Got Left"
- "Nowhere Road"
- "Sweet Little '66"
- "Copperhead Road"
- "Six Days on the Road"
- "Devil's Right Hand"
- "When You Fall in Love"
- "Sometimes She Forgets"
- "Galway Girl"