I Feel Alright

I Feel Alright
Studio album by Steve Earle
Released March 5, 1996
Genre Country rock
Length 40:08
Label E-Squared/Warner Bros.
Producer Ray Kennedy and Richard Bennett (tracks: 1, 5, 8 to 12), Richard Dodd (tracks: 2 to 4, 6 and 7)
Steve Earle chronology
Train a Comin'
(1995)Train a Comin'1995		 I Feel Alright
(1996)		 El Corazón
(1997)El Corazón1997

I Feel Alright is the sixth studio album by Steve Earle, released in 1996.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Christgau's Consumer Guide[2]
Entertainment WeeklyA[3]
Los Angeles Times[4]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide[5]
Rolling Stone[6]
Spin9/10[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."[3]

Accolades

Organization/PublicationYearAccoladePositionReference
Eye Weekly (Canada)1996"Albums of the year"8[8]
Guitar Player (USA)1997"Best Country Guitar album"3[9]
Nashville Music Awards (USA)1997best rock album*[10]
Spin (USA)1999"Top 90 Albums of the 90s"75[11]

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

Personnel

Musicians

Cover Art

Production

Ray Kennedy and Richard Bennett (tracks: 1, 5, 8 to 12), Richard Dodd (tracks: 2 to 4, 6 and 7)

Releases

yearformatlabelcatalog #
1996CDWarner Bros. Records46201
1996cassetteWarner Bros. Records46201
1996CDTransatlantic227

Charts

yearchartpeak
1996The Billboard 200106

Notes and sources

  1. ↑ Kurt Wolf, Review: I Feel Alright", Allmusic
  2. ↑ Christgau, Robert (2000-10-15). Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishing. p. 92. ISBN 9780312245603.
  3. 1 2 Nash, Alanna (1996-03-08). "I Feel Alright". Entertainment Weekly.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. p. 268. ISBN 9780743201698.
  6. ↑ McLeese, Don (1998-02-02). "Steve Earle: I Feel Alright". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2007-04-01. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
  7. ↑ Aaron, Charles (April 1996). "Steve Earle: I Feel Alright". Spin. SPIN Media LLC. p. 105. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
  8. ↑ Eye Weekly (Canadian cross-country critics poll), 1996
  9. ↑ "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)
  10. ↑ Deborah Evans Price, "Nashville Awards Celebrate More Than Just Country", Billboard, 109:8, February 22, 1997, p. 26,28
  11. ↑ "Spin's Top 90 Albums of the 90's"
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