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I Feel Alright

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I Feel Alright
Studio album by
Steve Earle
ReleasedMarch 5, 1996
Genres
Length38:57
LabelE-Squared Records
ProducersRay 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.

The title track was featured in the closing scenes of the season 2 finale of The Wire and in the 2006 film Talladega Nights. "Hard-Core Troubadour" was also featured in Talladega Nights.

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStarHalf star[1]
Christgau's Consumer Guide(3-star Honorable Mention)(3-star Honorable Mention)(3-star Honorable Mention)[3]
Entertainment WeeklyA[2]
Los Angeles TimesStarStarStar[4]
The New Rolling Stone Album GuideStarStarStarStar[5]
Rolling StoneStarStarStarStar[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."[2]

Accolades

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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

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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

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Musicians

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  • 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

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  • Tony Fitzpatrick – album artwork

Production

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

Releases

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

Charts

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yearchartpeak
1996The Billboard 200106

Notes and sources

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  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
  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", Web.archive.org
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