I Feel Alright

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I Feel Alright
Steve Earle - I Feel Alright Coverart.jpg
Studio album by
Steve Earle
ReleasedMarch 5, 1996
Genre
Length38:57
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)
Steve Earle chronology
Train a Comin'
(1995)		I Feel Alright
(1996)		 El Corazón
(1997)

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

Contents

The title track was featured in the closing scenes of the season 2 finale of The Wire.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
Christgau's Consumer Guide Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg [3]
Entertainment Weekly A [2]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
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/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 tracks are written by Steve Earle.

No.TitleLength
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

Cover art

Production

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

Releases

yearformatlabelcatalog #
1996 CD Warner Bros. Records 46201
1996 cassette Warner Bros. Records46201
1996CDTransatlantic227

Charts

yearchartpeak
1996 The Billboard 200 106

Notes and sources

  1. 1 2 3 Kurt Wolf, Review: I Feel Alright", Allmusic
  2. 1 2 3 Nash, Alanna (March 8, 1996). "I Feel Alright". Entertainment Weekly .
  3. ↑ Christgau, Robert (October 15, 2000). Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishing. p. 92. ISBN   9780312245603.
  4. ↑ Appleford, Steve (March 9, 1996). "Album Reviews: Earle's Back With New Ease, Naturalness on 'Alright'". Los Angeles Times . ISSN   0458-3035 . Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  5. ↑ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide . Simon and Schuster. p.  268. ISBN   9780743201698.
  6. ↑ McLeese, Don (February 2, 1998). "Steve Earle: I Feel Alright". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on April 1, 2007. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
  7. ↑ Aaron, Charles (April 1996). "Steve Earle: I Feel Alright". Spin . SPIN Media LLC. p. 105. Retrieved July 26, 2018.
  8. ↑ Eye Weekly (Canadian cross-country critics poll), 1996 [ usurped ]
  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" [ usurped ]
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