I Feel Alright

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I Feel Alright
Studio album by Steve Earle
Released	March 5, 1996
Genre	country, country-rock
Length	40:08
Label	E-Squared/Warner Bros.
Professional reviews
All Music Guide [1] Relix [2] Rolling Stone [3]
Steve Earle chronology
Train a Comin' (1995) I Feel Alright (1996) El Corazón (1997)

I Feel Alright is a studio album by Steve Earle. The album was released on March 5, 1996.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Credits 2.1 Musicians 2.2 Production 3 Releases 4 Charts 5 Accolades 6 Notes and sources

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Steve Earle

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" — 3:39
12. "You're Still Standin' There" — 3:24

[edit] Credits

[edit] Musicians

• Steve Earle — guitars, harmonica & vocals
• Guitars: Richard Bennett, Ray Kennedy
• Bass: Kelly Looney, Garry Tallent, Roy Huskey, Jr., Ric Kipp
• Drums: Custer, Greg Morrow,
• Organ: Ken Moore
• Harmonium: Richard Bennett
• Percussion: Custer, Richard Bennett, Greg Morrow, Dub Cornett
• Vocals: Custer & Logan, The Fairfield Four (Musical director: Mark Prentice), Lucinda Williams, Ms. Williams' stunt double Siobhan Maher
• Strings arranged and conducted by Kris Wilkerson
• Violins: Carl Gordetzky, Pamela Sixfin, Richard Grosjean
• Viola: Lee Larrison
• Cello: Robert Mason

[edit] Production

[edit] Releases

year	format	label	catalog #
1996	CD	Warner Bros. Records	46201
1996	cassette	Warner Bros. Records	46201
1996	CD	Transatlantic	227

[edit] Charts

year	chart	peak
1996	The Billboard 200	106

[edit] Accolades

Organization/Publication	Year	Accolade	Position	Reference
Eye Weekly (Canada)	1996	"Albums of the year"	8	[4]
Guitar Player (USA)	1997	"Best Country Guitar album"	3	[5]
Nashville Music Awards (USA)	1997	best rock album	*	[6]
Spin (USA)	1999	"Top 90 Albums of the 90s"	75	[7]

[edit] Notes and sources

1. ^ Kurt Wolf, "Review: I Feel Alright", All Music Guide
2. ^ Roger Len Smith, "Steve Earle: Rock Rebel Rips a Hole in Country" [review of Train A-Coming and I Feel Alright], Relix, 23:5, October 1996, p. 17
3. ^ Don Mcleese, "I Feel Alright: Review", Rolling Stone, 729, February 2, 1998?
4. ^ [http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/eyeweek.html#1996 Eye Weekly (Canadian cross-country critics poll), 1996
5. ^ "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)
6. ^ Deborah Evans Price, "Nashville Awards Celebrate More Than Just Country", Billboard, 109:8, February 22, 1997, p. 26,28
7. ^ [http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/spin100.html#Spin's%20Top%2090%20Albums%20of%20the%2090's "Spin's Top 90 Albums of the 90's"

v • d • e Steve Earle Studio albums 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 Non-album compilations Early Tracks • Side Tracks Live albums Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator • BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert • Together at the Bluebird Café • Just an American Boy • Live from Austin, TX • Live at Montreux 2005