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1996 studio album by Steve Earle
I Feel Alright studio album by
Steve Earle , released in 1996.
The title track was featured in the closing scenes of the
Port in a Storm , the final episode of The Wire season 2.
Critical reception 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."
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Accolades
Organization/Publication
Year
Accolade
Position
Reference
Eye Weekly (Canada)1996
"Albums of the year"
8
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Guitar Player (USA)1997
"Best Country Guitar album"
3
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Nashville Music Awards (USA)
1997
best rock album
*
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Spin (USA)1999
"Top 90 Albums of the 90s"
75
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Track listing All tracks are written by Steve Earle
Title 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 Production Ray Kennedy and Richard Bennett (tracks: 1, 5, 8 to 12), Richard Dodd (tracks: 2 to 4, 6 and 7)
Releases Charts 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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